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The Most Attractive Employers For Engineering Students Around The World

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Earlier this year, global research and advisory firm Universum looked at the employers who are most attractive to business and engineering students in the U.S., and in a report released last week, they widened their focus to provide a global outlook on these groups. 

To determine which employers are providing engineering students the most coveted opportunities, Universum asked nearly 240,000 students from the world’s 12 largest economies (the U.S., Canada, Brazil, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, China, India, and Australia) to identify  the employers for which they most wanted to work. Results were also weighted by GDP.

Perennial employment favorite Google leads this list--it also led Universum's global and U.S. lists of the most attractive employers for business students (NASA claimed the number one spot among engineering students in the U.S.) Microsoft, Apple, BMW, and GE round out the top five.

On an industry-wide basis, automobiles and parts companies have gained greater representation in this ranking, pulling ahead of the previous favorite, fast moving consumer goods. Technology hardware and equipment companies are also more present in recent years, while engineering and manufacturing companies, software and computer services, energy, retail, and fashion have remained steady.

Consumer electronics, professional services, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, banks, and chemicals have declined in representation among engineering students over the past five years.

Melissa Bailey, president of Universum Americas, told us last week that the companies moving ahead in these rankings and seeing successful results are those empowering their employees to continue gaining new skills and adapting to a rapidly changing business landscape.

“We see the importance of an organization to be able to learn faster than the pace of change. In the world we’re seeing lots of changes happening far more quickly than in the past. The companies getting ahead on the employer side–the people in their organizations are able to learn faster than the rate of change.”

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