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100 Top MBA employers
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Companies where MBA candidates say they'd most like to work
Men
2006 rank
Company (Click company name to go to its FORTUNE 500 profile.)
% who put in top five
1
McKinsey & Company
24.16
2
Goldman Sachs
16.66
3
Bain & Company
15.86
4
Google
14.87
5
The Boston Consulting Group
13.65
6
Apple Computer
9.96
7
Morgan Stanley
9.44
8
General Electric
8.91
9
Lehman Brothers
8.88
10
Citigroup
8.79
11
Booz Allen Hamilton
7.44
12
Microsoft
6.98
13
Nike
6.52
14
Johnson & Johnson
6.18
15
BMW
5.69
16
Yahoo!
5.62
17
JPMorgan Investment Bank
5.56
18
Merrill Lynch
5.50
19
Walt Disney
5.44
20
Bank of America
5.04
21
Deloitte
4.67
22
3M
4.61
22
Procter & Gamble
4.61
24
Sony
4.49
25
Intel
4.24
26
IBM
4.15
27
Amazon.com
4.12
28
UBS Investment Bank
4.06
29
Toyota
3.93
29
Fidelity Investments
3.93
31
eBay
3.87
32
Genentech
3.75
33
Dell
3.44
34
Starbucks
3.38
35
Credit Suisse First Boston
3.32
36
Deutsche Bank
3.20
37
American Express
2.98
38
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
2.86
39
PepsiCo
2.83
39
JPMorgan Chase
2.83
41
Coca-Cola
2.80
42
Harrah's Entertainment
2.77
43
Bear Stearns
2.74
44
A.T. Kearney
2.67
45
BP
2.64
46
Central Intelligence Agency
2.49
47
Amgen
2.46
48
Accenture
2.37
49
Boeing
2.34
50
Barclays Capital
2.27
51
Monitor Group
2.24
52
ExxonMobil
2.21
53
Wachovia Corp.
2.18
54
Nestlé
2.12
54
Pfizer
2.12
56
Medtronic
2.06
56
PricewaterhouseCoopers
2.06
56
Target
2.06
59
Southwest Airlines
2.03
59
Cisco Systems
2.03
61
Vanguard Group
2.00
62
Lilly (Eli Lilly and Company)
1.91
63
Kraft Foods
1.75
64
Motorola
1.72
64
Marriott
1.72
66
Hewlett-Packard
1.69
67
Mercer Management Consulting
1.66
68
General Mills
1.63
69
Ernst & Young
1.60
70
Best Buy
1.54
71
Unilever
1.51
72
Home Depot
1.48
72
Wells Fargo
1.48
74
Reebok
1.44
75
Diageo
1.41
76
Cargill
1.35
76
HSBC
1.35
78
Chevron
1.32
79
Gap
1.29
80
Abbott
1.26
80
Honeywell
1.26
80
Lockheed Martin
1.26
83
Qualcomm
1.23
83
DaimlerChrysler
1.23
85
Miller Brewing
1.20
86
Nissan
1.17
86
Nokia
1.17
86
Pulte Homes
1.17
86
Federal Bureau of Investigation
1.17
90
Coors Brewing
1.14
90
Guidant
1.14
92
Mattel
1.11
92
Shell Oil
1.11
92
Bose Corporation
1.11
92
American Airlines
1.11
96
AIG
1.08
97
Ford Motor
1.05
97
GlaxoSmithKline
1.05
99
Siemens
0.98
100
DuPont
0.95
Source:
Universum Communications
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Company
% who put in top 5
McKinsey & Company
13.43
Google
12.14
Johnson & Johnson
10.52
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Best-paying fields
In which industries do MBA candidates think they'll be best-compensated?
Industry
Expected salary,
first job after graduation
Venture capital
$103,274
Investment management
$98,088
Management consulting
$97,563
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How we pick the 100 Top MBA Employers
Think of it as a popularity contest for companies: Every year research firm Universum Communications (
www.universumusa.com
) ranks the most desirable employers in the world, based on where MBA candidates say they'd most like to work... (
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