The top 50 dream companies for engineering and IT students around the world

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Business students can't wait to work at Google, and their engineering and IT classmates couldn't agree more.

Universum, a global research and advisory firm, surveyed 149,226 undergraduates studying engineering or IT in the 12 countries with the world's largest GDPs — Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, US, China, Japan, Brazil, India, Canada, and South Korea.

The engineering and IT students were asked to choose the companies and organizations they'd most like to work for.

Universum then put together a ranking of the most desirable employers, based on the number of undergraduate engineering and IT students who chose a company as one of their dream employers.

Google, which specializes in online advertising technologies, cloud computing, software, and, of course, search, landed at the top of the list for a second consecutive year.

Microsoft, Apple, GE, and BMW rounded out the top five.

Here are the top 50:

50. Novartis

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Based in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis is a pharmaceutical company.

49. EY (Ernst & Young)

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EY is one of the "Big Four" audit firms and is based in London.

48. BP

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Headquartered in London, oil and gas giant BP was first founded in 1908.

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