The Universum Swiss Student Survey
The results of the Swiss Student Survey reveal how students perceive companies/organizations as employers in Switzerland. The research functions as a basis for decision-making when choosing target groups, messages and channels for future employer branding campaigns, and as a control instrument for measuring the appeal a company/organization has over its specific target groups.
The rankings below reveal how attractive an employer is amongst students, and indicates a company’s position in relation to other ideal employers in the recruitment market. The rankings enable employers to track and set targets for measuring their level of employer attractiveness.
Number of participants in 2009: 6,535 respondents
Number of universities targeted in 2009: 19 leading universities
Field period: November 2008 to March 2009
Students are targeted separately according to their main field of study. The Universum Top 100 Ideal Employer Rankings are thus categorized as such. From the drop-down window below, please select the field of study which is of interest to you.
Field of study:
| Company |
Ranking 2009 |
| Nestlé | 1 |
| Google | 2 |
| Credit Suisse | 3 |
| UBS | 4 |
| McKinsey & Company | 5 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | 6 |
| L'Oréal | 7 |
| SWISS (Swiss airlines) | 8 |
| Ernst & Young | 9 |
| Swatch Group | 10 |
| Procter & Gamble | 11 |
| The Boston Consulting Group | 12 |
| Novartis | 13 |
| Die Bundesverwaltung | 14 |
| IKRK | 15 |
| KPMG | 16 |
| Coca-Cola Company | 17 |
| Schweizerische Nationalbank | 18 |
| Bank Julius Bär | 19 |
| SRG SSR Idée Suisse | 20 |
| IBM | 21 |
| Goldman Sachs | 22 |
| IKEA | 23 |
| ABB | 24 |
| Lindt & Sprüngli | 25 |
| Swisscom | 26 |
| HSBC Private Bank | 27 |
| SBB CFF FFS | 28 |
| Migros | 29 |
| Richemont Group | 30 |
| Unilever | 31 |
| Logitech | 32 |
| Raiffeisen | 33 |
| J.P. Morgan | 34 |
| Swiss Re | 35 |
| PostFinance | 36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 37 |
| H&M | 38 |
| Zürcher Kantonalbank | 39 |
| Microsoft | 40 |
| Roche | 41 |
| Deloitte | 42 |
| Kraft Foods | 43 |
| Zurich Financial Services | 44 |
| Bain & Company | 45 |
| Philip Morris | 46 |
| Deutsche Bank | 47 |
| Coop | 48 |
| Roland Berger | 49 |
| Accenture | 50 |
| Siemens | 51 |
| Die Post | 52 |
| Morgan Stanley | 53 |
| Bally | 54 |
| Hilti | 55 |
| Orange | 56 |
| AXA Winterthur | 57 |
| Merrill Lynch | 58 |
| Schindler | 59 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 60 |
| Manor | 61 |
| Holcim | 62 |
| Kühne + Nagel | 63 |
| Booz&Co | 64 |
| Victorinox | 65 |
| Die Mobiliar | 66 |
| Beiersdorf | 67 |
| Dell | 68 |
| Syngenta | 69 |
| Clariden Leu | 70 |
| Bayer | 71 |
| Swiss Life | 72 |
| DHL | 73 |
| Danone | 74 |
| Adecco | 75 |
| BDO Visura | 76 |
| BKW | 77 |
| British American Tobacco | 78 |
| Allianz | 79 |
| Bâloise | 80 |
| Alstom | 81 |
| Phonak | 82 |
| Bombardier Transportation | 83 |
| VZ Vermögenszentrum | 84 |
| Lonza Group | 85 |
| Leica Geosystems | 86 |
| Tetra Pak | 87 |
| OC Oerlikon | 88 |
| Schweizer Armee | 89 |
| Oliver Wyman | 90 |
| MerckSerono | 91 |
| ABN Amro | 92 |
| Monitor Group | 93 |
| Kudelski Group | 94 |
| Generali | 95 |
| Sulzer | 96 |
| Arthur D. Little | 97 |
| Capgemini | 98 |
| Citi | 99 |
| Straumann | 100 |
| Company |
Ranking 2009 |
| ABB | 1 |
| Alstom | 2 |
| Siemens | 3 |
| Nestlé | 4 |
| Logitech | 5 |
| Google | 6 |
| Pilatus Aircraft | 7 |
| IBM | 8 |
| RUAG | 9 |
| Hilti | 10 |
| OC Oerlikon | 11 |
| Novartis | 12 |
| SBB CFF FFS | 13 |
| Implenia | 14 |
| Roche | 15 |
| Leica Geosystems | 16 |
| Schindler | 17 |
| Bombardier Transportation | 18 |
| McKinsey & Company | 19 |
| MerckSerono | 20 |
| Swatch Group | 21 |
| Holcim | 22 |
| The Boston Consulting Group | 23 |
| Rheinmetall Air Defence (ehemals Oerlikon Contraves) | 24 |
| IKRK | 25 |
| Swisscom | 26 |
| Procter & Gamble | 27 |
| Sulzer | 28 |
| Die Bundesverwaltung | 29 |
| Lonza Group | 30 |
| Credit Suisse | 31 |
| Migros | 32 |
| IKEA | 33 |
| SWISS (Swiss airlines) | 34 |
| Sun Microsystems | 35 |
| Lindt & Sprüngli | 36 |
| Ericsson | 37 |
| ThyssenKrupp Presta | 38 |
| Axpo | 39 |
| UBS | 40 |
| Cisco Systems | 41 |
| Bosch | 42 |
| Phonak | 43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 44 |
| BKW | 45 |
| DuPont | 46 |
| Emmi | 47 |
| Microsoft | 48 |
| Swiss Re | 49 |
| NXP Semiconductors | 50 |
| Syngenta | 51 |
| Kraft Foods | 52 |
| Schweizer Armee | 53 |
| SRG SSR Idée Suisse | 54 |
| Philip Morris | 55 |
| Bain & Company | 56 |
| Ernst & Young | 57 |
| Coca-Cola Company | 58 |
| Ciba Spezialitätenchemie | 59 |
| Givaudan | 60 |
| Bayer | 61 |
| Coop | 62 |
| Dell | 63 |
| Altran | 64 |
| Tetra Pak | 65 |
| Unilever | 66 |
| Ascom | 67 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | 68 |
| Accenture | 69 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 70 |
| Deloitte | 71 |
| Pfizer | 72 |
| Alpiq (ehemals Atel) | 73 |
| Cambridge Technology Partners | 74 |
| Mettler Toledo | 75 |
| Oracle | 76 |
| Raiffeisen | 77 |
| Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG | 78 |
| AXA Winterthur | 79 |
| Straumann | 80 |
| Booz&Co | 81 |
| British American Tobacco | 82 |
| Kühne + Nagel | 83 |
| Roland Berger | 84 |
| CSC Switzerland | 84 |
| Zurich Financial Services | 84 |
| DSM | 87 |
| Rieter | 88 |
| Die Post | 89 |
| T-Systems Schweiz | 90 |
| Georg Fischer | 91 |
| Geberit | 92 |
| Kudelski Group | 93 |
| Beiersdorf | 94 |
| Swiss Life | 95 |
| Allianz | 96 |
| KPMG | 97 |
| Adecco | 98 |
| PostFinance | 99 |
| Oliver Wyman | 100 |
| Company |
Ranking 2009 |
| Novartis | 1 |
| Roche | 2 |
| Nestlé | 3 |
| Die Bundesverwaltung | 4 |
| Syngenta | 5 |
| Google | 6 |
| IKRK | 7 |
| IBM | 8 |
| MerckSerono | 9 |
| UBS | 10 |
| Bayer | 11 |
| SBB CFF FFS | 12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 |
| Givaudan | 14 |
| Credit Suisse | 15 |
| McKinsey & Company | 16 |
| Migros | 17 |
| The Boston Consulting Group | 18 |
| Ciba Spezialitätenchemie | 19 |
| Swiss Re | 20 |
| ABB | 21 |
| Leica Geosystems | 22 |
| SWISS (Swiss airlines) | 23 |
| Coop | 24 |
| Pfizer | 25 |
| Zurich Financial Services | 26 |
| Lindt & Sprüngli | 27 |
| DuPont | 28 |
| SRG SSR Idée Suisse | 29 |
| Lonza Group | 30 |
| Company |
Ranking 2009 |
| Google | 1 |
| IBM | 2 |
| Logitech | 3 |
| Sun Microsystems | 4 |
| Microsoft | 5 |
| Swisscom | 6 |
| Cisco Systems | 7 |
| UBS | 8 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 9 |
| ABB | 10 |
| SBB CFF FFS | 11 |
| Credit Suisse | 12 |
| Dell | 13 |
| Oracle | 14 |
| Ericsson | 15 |
| SAP | 16 |
| SWISS (Swiss airlines) | 17 |
| Accenture | 18 |
| Siemens | 19 |
| Nestlé | 20 |
| Novartis | 21 |
| PostFinance | 22 |
| RUAG | 23 |
| SRG SSR Idée Suisse | 24 |
| Raiffeisen | 25 |
| Migros | 26 |
| IKRK | 27 |
| Ernst & Young | 28 |
| McKinsey & Company | 29 |
| Avaloq | 30 |