Top100 Graduate Employers Awards
Celebrating 11 years of recognising Top Australian Graduate Employers
What are the Top100 Graduate Employers Awards?
The Top100 Graduate Employers Awards celebrate the most popular graduate employers in Australia by industry, including graduate and internship employers. The list is published annually in the Australian Financial Review. The Top100 Awards Night in February is a highly valued evening for all graduate employers, as you can interact directly with top future talent and perhaps secure your next graduate program’s headliners!
Be in the running to be recognised as a Top100 Graduate Employer
Be recognised as one of Australia’s top and most sought-after graduate employers. The Top100 Employers are ranked by industry based on the user behaviour on GradConnection, Australia’s market leader for online student sourcing, insights and branding.
Thanks to our Employer Awards Sponsors
Many thanks for the support from the following organisations who are sponsoring this year's Top100 Employer awards and whose contribution also makes the awards night possible!
Our 2025 Top100 Graduate Employers Awards
AFR Most Employable University Award
UNSW Most Popular Graduate Employer Award
Most Popular Internship Employers Award - Large
Most Popular Internship Employers Award - Small
Chartered Accountants Australia and NZ Most Popular Accounting, Professional Services and Consulting Employer Award
University of Technology Sydney Most Popular Technology Employer
University of Technology Sydney Most Popular Technology Consulting Employer
UNSW Business School Most Popular Business and Commerce Employer Award
Chandler Macleod Most Popular Government & Defence Employer Award
SHL Most Popular Investment Banking and Trading Employer Award
SHL Most Popular Banking, Finance and Insurance Employer Award
Chandler Macleod Most Popular Mining and Energy Employer
Most Popular Engineering Employer Award
Most Popular Property, Infrastructure & Logistics Employer Award
Most Popular Law Employer
Most Popular Clerkship Employer
Most Popular Retail and FMCG Employer Award
Data Driven Rankings
We use hundreds of thousands of data points from our database to rank the Top100 graduate employers throughout the recruitment year.
Actual Student Data
Employers are ranked based on actual measured student application behaviour, and not survey data, which can be unreliable with high levels of human error and inaccuracy.
High Success Rate
More than 70% of students who successfully obtain a position in a large graduate program use GradConnection when looking for their first graduate job (AAGE Candidate Survey)
Large Database
GradConnection has a database of over 280,000 students in Australia from a wide variety of disciplines.
Website Traffic
During peak months, 303,000 of unique Australian visitors visit our site to look for open opportunities.
What We Measure
We determine graduate employer popularity by the number of unique university student and graduate applicants they attract.
We do not measure the employer programs directly or base our rankings on the aspirations of the employer.
Limitations and Biases
To be eligible for consideration, employers must have advertised graduate opportunities on au.gradconnection.com at some point during the Top100 Awards calendar year.
Note that this indicates that employers offering opportunities in multiple locations, across multiple disciplines, or at multiple times throughout the calendar year are more relevant to a broader set of graduates and therefore will naturally have a higher number of interested applicants in a given year.