Universum Awards celebrated Ideal Employers of UK business and engineering/IT students

Apr 27, 2010

The UK Universum Awards took place on April 15th at Regent’s College, situated in the beautiful Regents Park, London. The evening celebrated the top Ideal Employers of business and engineering/IT students in the UK. However, students studying natural science, humanities/liberal arts/education and law also have their favourite employers and the winner are:

Number 1 Ideal Employer, natural science – NHS
Highest Climber, natural science – RWEnPower
Number 1 Ideal Employer, humanities/liberal arts/education – BBC
Highest Climber, humanities/liberal arts/education – Nestlé
Number 1 Ideal Employer, law – Allen & Overy
Highest Climber, law – Bain & Company

In response to their first place position, Allen & Overy said:
“This award demonstrates the high regard students have placed on the quality of our graduate recruitment activities, what we do as a business and our training. In what has been a challenging recruitment year for employers and students alike, we’re delighted that students have recognised Allen & Overy as the most popular employer for law in the 2010 Universum Student Survey”.

To see which employers won awards on the night, please visit: http://www.universumawards.com/uk/Winners.aspx

Registration for the Universum Awards, took place in Regent’s College’s Knapp Gallery, which showcases amateur art. The afternoon continued with seminars from James Platt, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group and Sedef Buyukataman, Universum Relations Manager European & Emerging Markets, Cisco. The awards and dinner took place in Herringham Hall – below some photographs from the event: