PwC UK voted the UK’s top graduate employer

PwC has been voted the UK’s number one graduate employer in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers survey 2023. The ranking is based on interviews with over 13,000 final year students at 32 universities across the UK. The firm also won first place sector awards for Accountancy and Actuarial. 

Over 70,000 students applied to 1,618 graduate and 175 school leaver places at PwC, with the firm recently welcoming its latest cohort. Last month PwC announced it would honour offers made to students joining the firm as school and college leaver apprentices, regardless of their final A-level results, and earlier in the summer reassured university students that marking delays would not impact their ability to start their graduate jobs.

Young people joining PwC in September will receive enhanced coaching, with a focus on face-to-face learning and training. This is part of a coaching initiative launched to enable younger people to acquire new skills and opportunities quickly, and allows managers to coach full-time on a secondment basis.  

PwC remains focused on increasing its socio-economic diversity efforts to improve social mobility and last year, the firm removed the 2:1 requirement to further diversify its graduate intake through broader access to talent. Moreso, the firm also set its first ever socio-economic background targets for FY30. 

Ian Elliott, Chief People Officer at PwC, said: 

“We’re incredibly proud that university graduates have voted us as the top  graduate employer. We want to attract and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, so we are continually evolving our recruitment processes to ensure they’re as accessible and inclusive as possible. We also want to ensure our graduates are equipped with the skills they need to thrive at PwC; that’s why we’re constantly evolving our approach to training and development to ensure junior staff have both the confidence they need and face-to-face exposure with clients and our people from the day they join.”

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1. For more information on PwC’s graduate and student opportunities, please visit the website here.