The study, conducted by High Fliers Research in December, looked at graduate vacancies, starting salaries and undergraduate work experience programmes at the country’s 100 leading employers.
Among the companies on this list of leading employers are the BBC, Google, Apple, Amazon, the Bank of England, Marks and Spencer and Dyson.
Stuart Johnson, Director of Careers Service at the University of Bristol, said: "Bristol has for a long time been a university heavily targeted by top employers but it is particularly gratifying to be at our highest position in the report since High Fliers began their Graduate Market Review in 2004.
"Bristol attracts some of the best students and produces some of the most employable graduates, something that as an institution and as a careers service we are tremendously proud of."
The report confirmed that that top 10 universities most-often targeted by Britain’s top graduate employers in 2015-2016 are: Manchester, Nottingham, Warwick, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, University College London, Durham, Bath and Leeds.
These institutions have attracted the largest number of top graduate recruiters for campus fairs, recruitment presentations or other local university promotions during 2015-2016.
Other key findings from the report include:
- The number of graduates hired by the UK’s leading employers rose by 3.3 per cent in 2015
- Employers plan to expand their graduate recruitment by a further 7.5 per cent in 2016, the fourth consecutive year that vacancies have increased, taking the number of graduate jobs available to its highest-ever level
- The median graduate starting salary on offer from the UK’s leading graduate employers is expected to remain unchanged at £30,000 in 2016
- More than 90 per cent of the UK’s leading graduate employers are offering paid work experience programmes for students and recent graduates during the 2015-2016 academic year – an unprecedented 14,049 paid work placements are available
A full copy of the report can be downloaded from the High Fliers website.