Apple, Deloitte, and L'Oréal Group are three of the most highly attractive companies for business students, Universum's newly published business-student ranking suggested.

The business ranking is just one of the rankings part of the World's Most Attractive Employers report from Universum, an employer-branding company.

This year's rankings of the World's Most Attractive Employers are determined by survey responses from college and university students spanning nine economies. That includes the US, India, and France. Response collection was done during fall 2022 to spring 2023. Students part of the survey indicated the employers they wish the most to be able to land a job with.

Apple and Google respectively stayed at No. 1 and No. 2 in the ranking based on what business students said. However, J.P. Morgan moved up from No. 7 to No. 3. There were other companies part of the top 20 in this year's report that didn't move. That's the case for Morgan Stanley and Nike.

The following are the 20 employers that made the top of the list based on responses from business students. Industry categories below were from Universum.