The Universum German Student Survey 2008


The results from Germany’s Universum Student Survey 2008 have been released. Find out which companies are this year’s ideal employers. Download ranking release here. 

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Natural Sciences
Company Ranking 2008 Percent 2008
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 1 31,12%
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 2 20,98%
Bayer 3 15,18%
BASF 4 11,45%
Roche Diagnostics 5 10,09%
McKinsey & Company 6 9,40%
DLR (Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik) 7 9,40%
Siemens 8 8,54%
Merck 9 8,29%
Schering (Bayer Schering Pharma) 10 8,12%
BMW Group 11 8,01%
ESA (European Space Agency) 12 6,72%
Porsche 13 6,56%
Audi 14 6,34%
Novartis Pharma 15 6,32%

Business
Company Ranking 2008 Percent 2008
Porsche 1 14,90%
BMW Group 2 14,58%
Deutsche Lufthansa 3 12,94%
Audi 4 11,09%
McKinsey & Company 5 10,89%
Auswrtiges Amt 6 9,78%
Deutsche Bank 7 9,04%
Daimler 8 8,80%
BCG (The Boston Consulting Group) 9 8,45%
PricewaterhouseCoopers 10 8,06%
Ernst & Young 11 7,65%
Adidas 12 7,31%
L'Oral Deutschland 13 7,07%
KPMG 14 6,99%
Siemens 15 6,69%

IT
Company Ranking 2008 Percent 2008
Google 1 24,84%
SAP 2 18,62%
IBM Deutschland 3 18,32%
Microsoft Deutschland 4 14,31%
Siemens 5 13,06%
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 6 12,77%
BMW Group 7 12,18%
Apple Computer 8 11,26%
Porsche 9 11,03%
Audi 10 10,25%
Intel 11 8,93%
ProSiebenSat.1 Media 12 8,21%
Lufthansa Systems 13 7,95%
AMD Dresden 14 7,28%
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 15 7,10%

Engineering
Company Ranking 2008 Percent 2008
Audi 1 25,36%
Porsche 2 24,11%
BMW Group 3 22,96%
Daimler 4 15,27%
Siemens 5 13,21%
Robert Bosch 6 11,23%
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 7 10,44%
ThyssenKrupp 8 10,21%
Lufthansa Technik 9 10,20%
EADS 10 8,24%
Volkswagen 11 8,03%
DLR (Deutsches Zentrum fr Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik) 12 6,63%
E.ON 13 6,24%
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 14 5,69%
RWE 15 5,13%