The World’s Top 50 Most Attractive Employers

Universum, the employer branding company, presents the world’s Top 50 most attractive employers. From the world’s leading economies, nearly 120,000 students at top academic institutions chose their ideal companies to work for.

This is the first global index of employer attractiveness and highlights the world’s most powerful employer brands, those companies that excel in talent attraction and retention. The global rankings are based on the employer preferences of students from US, Japan, China, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, Spain, Canada and India.

Global Top 50 Business Company Ranking 2009 Google 1 PricewaterhouseCoopers 2 Microsoft 3 Goldman Sachs 4 Ernst & Young 5 Procter & Gamble 6 J.P. Morgan 7 KPMG 8 McKinsey & Company 9 Deloitte 10 The Boston Consulting Group 11 BMW 12 Coca-Cola 13 L'Oréal 14 Morgan Stanley 15 Sony 16 IBM 17 Johnson & Johnson 18 Deutsche Bank 19 General Electric 20 Citigroup 21 HSBC 22 Accenture 23 Nestlé 24 Credit Suisse 25 Bain & Company 26 Unilever 27 UBS 28 Nokia 29 Intel 30 Esso/ExxonMobil 31 Kraft Foods 32 Shell 33 Hewlett-Packard 34 Mars (Masterfoods) 35 Pfizer 36 Siemens 37 Philips 38 Oracle 39 Bayer 40 Philip Morris 41 DHL 42 BP 43 Bosch 44 Cisco 45 Daimler 46 Ericsson 47 ABB 48 Novartis 49 Schlumberger 50

Global Top 50 Engineering Company Ranking 2009 Google 1 Microsoft 2 IBM 3 BMW 4 Intel 5 General Electric 6 Sony 7 Siemens 8 Shell 9 Procter & Gamble 10 Johnson & Johnson 11 Hewlett-Packard 12 Cisco 13 Esso/ExxonMobil 14 McKinsey & Company 15 Schlumberger 16 BP 17 L'Oréal 18 Nokia 19 Accenture 20 Coca-Cola 21 Philips 22 Goldman Sachs 23 Nestlé 24 Pfizer 25 Bosch 26 The Boston Consulting Group 27 J.P. Morgan 28 Deloitte 29 Morgan Stanley 30 GlaxoSmithKline 31 Ericsson 32 Ernst & Young 33 ABB 34 Bayer 35 Unilever 36 PricewaterhouseCoopers 37 Deutsche Bank 38 HSBC 39 Kraft Foods 40 Bain & Company 41 Citigroup 42 Alcatel-Lucent 43 Daimler 44 Novartis 45 Mars (Masterfoods) 46 KPMG 47 Credit Suisse 48 DHL 49 UBS 50