INTRODUCING THE TIMES TOP 100 GRADUATE EMPLOYERS

The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers is the definitive annual guide to Britain’s most sought-after and prestigious graduate employers.

The new Top 100 employer rankings for 2021-2022 have been compiled
from interviews with over 16,000 graduates who left university in
2021, who were asked "Which employer do you think offers the
best opportunities for graduates?".

But which organisation has been voted Britain's top
graduate employer for 2021? Who are this year’s highest-
climbers and which of the country’s leading graduate
employers are new entries in the latest Top 100?

With the graduate job market now recovering from the pandemic, the employers featured in the new edition of the Top 100 have over 24,000 graduate vacancies available for 2022.

The digital edition of The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers book is online now and copies of the printed hard-backed book are available free-of-charge to student job hunters at fifty key universities across the country, or can be purchased for £19.99, exclusively from Amazon.

CORONAVIRUS AND THE GRADUATE JOB MARKET

The new edition of The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers includes exclusive editorial coverage of how the graduate job market is bouncing back from the Coronavirus pandemic.

At the start of the Coronavirus crisis in 2020, many employers reduced or postponed their graduate recruitment as the country plunged into its deepest recession for over 300 years.

But how have graduate vacancies at the Top 100 employers recovered during the past year and what are the employment prospects for graduates leaving university in the summer of 2022?
Read our graduate job market guide

Over the last turbulent 18 months, the country's leading graduate employers have risen to the challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic – from switching to fully-online graduate recruitment, developing virtual internships, and supporting new graduates to work-from-home.
Read our report on Britain's graduate employers and the pandemic

More than half the employers featured in this year’s edition of The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers have autumn deadlines for their 2022 graduate vacancies:

October 2021 BCG Civil Service PepsiCo November 2021 American Express Goldman Sachs J.P. Morgan Mott MacDonald Savills

December 2021 DLA Piper Herbert Smith Freehills Lidl Linklaters Newton

For Top 100 employers that have later application deadlines or those that recruit graduates year-round, it is still recommended to apply as soon as possible, as applicant are often assessed on a first-come, first-served basis and graduate vacancies are expected to fill quickly.