This year’s race to be number one in the rankings of The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers has been the closest since the league table was first published in 1999. More than 15,000 students who graduated from university this summer took part in the poll to find Britain’s most sought-after graduate employers, and yet just seven votes separate the top two organisations.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accountancy firm, has managed to hold on to the number one spot for the fifth year running, with a total of 8.2 per cent of finalists’ votes.

The firm’s arch rival, Deloitte, increased its share of the vote compared with last year but still finished in second place, ahead of KPMG, another of the Big Four professional services firms, which remains at number three for a third year. In all, almost a quarter of new graduates voted an accountancy firm their “employer of choice”.

Source: The Times Online
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