Supporters Announces 'Best Engineer Summer Internship Ranking 2026'

Supporters Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Hiromitsu Kaede), which operates a job-hunting support service connecting students aspiring to be IT engineers with companies and boasts one of the largest numbers of registered students in Japan, conducted a survey targeting students aspiring to engineering positions graduating in 2027 and released the "Best Engineer Summer Internship Ranking 2026." This survey aims to support students in choosing the best internship and to serve as an indicator for companies when planning and improving internships for engineers. Conducted annually since 2022, this is the fifth time it has been carried out. In the recent engineer recruitment market, internships have become established as an important matching place for companies and students, and the results of this survey explain what kind of "experiences" students find valuable and increase their desire to join a company. ▼ Click here for the 2025 survey results https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000063.000045025.html Target audience: Engineering aspiring students graduating in 2027 Number of responses: 691 Survey period: February 6 to February 25, 2026 Overall Ranking: LINE Yahoo Corporation won first place for the second consecutive year. Internet companies such as Recruit and SmartHR ranked high. The participation rate in open companies/internships reached an astonishing 98.8%. This is a further increase from 95% last year, making summer internship participation an "essential process" for engineering students. Approximately 75% of the students answered that participating in open companies/internships affected the change in their desire to join the company, showing a significant impact on students' decision-making. 86.7% of students emphasized "internship content." Followed by "advantageous for selection (56.2%)" exceeding half, accelerating the "practical benefit-oriented" approach seeking both career formation and direct connection to a job offer. 1. "Best Summer Internship Ranking" In the overall ranking, LINE Yahoo Corporation won first place for the second consecutive year. It also won first place in two categories in the departmental ranking: "Improvement of technical skills" and "High level of peers," showing that its high technical standards and quality of learning are consistently highly evaluated by students. LINE Yahoo's internships offer over 100 diverse courses, centered on "on-the-job" types where students are involved in actual service development. Many students commented, "I was able to use the same tools as frontline engineers and touch code close to the production environment," and "I felt technical growth in a short period through high-level feedback from employees," suggesting that experiencing the "real daily life of an engineer" directly leads to high satisfaction and an increase in the desire to join the company. Recruit, ranked 2nd, and SmartHR, ranked 3rd, also received high evaluations for their mentoring systems and good atmosphere, resulting in programs where students can deeply understand "people" and "organizational culture" as well as technical skills dominating the top spots. The competitive environment surrounding engineer recruitment is becoming increasingly fierce, and the movement of each company focusing on improving the quality of internships is accelerating. Looking at the top 10 as a whole, internet industry companies dominate, and these companies also gather balanced evaluations in the departmental rankings. On the other hand, manufacturing companies like Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (10th) also ranked high. 2. Experience of participating in summer internships / Number of companies experienced / Impact on desire to join Regarding experience participating in summer internships, 98.8% of the respondents answered that they "participated." It can be seen that summer internships have become established as an essential process in engineering job hunting. As for the number of companies experienced, it was "1 company (19.0%)," "2 companies (18.5%)," and "3 companies (19.3%)," with about 60% of the total staying at 3 companies or less. From these results, it seems that many students are "carefully selecting" their internship participation. Furthermore, 74.7% of the students answered that participating in the internship affected their desire to join the company as a workplace. With the earlier job hunting schedule, internships are no longer just for "industry research" but have become a "place to decide on a workplace." Students provided comments such as the following: The source code of the actual product was very clean, and I felt their dedication to technology, making them my top choice. I was given the same discretion as employees, and while tackling business challenges, I strongly felt that I wanted to work as a member of this organization. 3. Regarding the summer internships participated in [Correlation between period and improvement in desire to join] The participation period was "about 1 to 3 weeks (6..."