Returning students target companies for top job prospects

Companies remain a top employment choice among Chinese students returning from overseas study, while those wanting to start their own businesses are the minority, a study has found.

Two-thirds of the Chinese students polled expressed their willingness to work at companies after coming back - 29 percent hope to enter foreign-invested corporations, 20 percent prefer State-owned enterprises and 17 percent favor private ones.

Lower in popularity are public institutions, higher education or research institutes, according to the 2015 Blue Book on the Employment of Chinese Students Returning from Study Overseas, which was released on Friday by the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange under the Ministry of Education.