Google is the employer most European IT students would like to work for, according to a new study.

The European Graduate Survey 2007, carried out by employment consultancy Universum, talked to 8,100 European engineering and IT students and examined the career expectations and preferences of final year students at the top universities across Europe.

Among IT companies, IBM (4th), Siemens (7th) and Nokia (10th) also made it into the top 10 - but second and third places went to Porsche and Ferrari.

Nicholas Creswell, university programmes manager for Google Europe, says the firm has only been actively recruiting technical interns and graduates in Europe since 2006 and its success in future will depend on the ability to recruit top talent.