The University of Birmingham is among the six UK universities most frequently targeted by the country's top employers looking for graduate recruits, according to a newly published report.
The University of Birmingham is among the six UK universities most frequently targeted by the country’s top employers looking for graduate recruits, according to a newly published report.
The Graduate Market in 2017, produced by High Fliers Research, is the annual review of graduate vacancies and starting salaries at Britain’s leading employers.
In the report, published yesterday, Birmingham has risen from 11th to sixth place in the table of Universities targeted by the largest number of top employers in 2016-2017.
The new rankings come at a time when just eight of the UK’s leading employers have opted to reduce their graduate recruitment targets for 2017 because of uncertainty following the Brexit vote.
Together, the country’s top employers have received nine per cent more graduate job applications so far, compared with the equivalent period in the 2015-2016 recruitment round.
The report’s key findings include;
Eluned Jones, Director of Student Employability at the University of Birmingham commented: ‘We value our employer relationships very highly and take great pride in our increase in the High Fliers ranking.
‘This reflects our strong partnerships with a range of employers and a very successful year which has seen an increase in the number of employers visiting the campus as well as growth in vacancies – both for graduate and undergraduate roles.
‘As a University we are producing highly employable graduates so it is very gratifying to see this reflected in our growing reputation with a range of top graduate recruiters.’
The ten universities whose graduates are most in demand by leading UK companies are named as: Birmingham, Warwick, Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Nottingham, Oxford, Durham and Bath.
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