PwC tops graduate popularity poll - graduate jobs

Financial services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been named the company graduates most want to work for by a new poll.

The Guardian 300, a joint project between research firm Trendence and the Guardian newspaper, lists the 300 most popular graduate employers in the UK.

The scheme, designed using the research company's Graduate Barometer Survey, polled more than 17,000 students at 75 universities across the country to understand their career choices.

The inaugural rankings, released to a specially-selected audience at London's Sadler's Wells, saw PwC take overall top spot and first place in both the accountancy and financial management and consulting sectors.

HSBC, Amnesty International, GlaxoSmithKline and Balfour Beatty also did well in the poll.

Trendence's UK account director Jo-Anne Coppock said: "The launch of the Guardian UK 300 gives graduate employers a real choice for the first time."