100 Top MBA Employers 2008 - Top 100

Top 100

Rank	Company	2008 Fortune 500 rank	% students who put in top 5
1	Google	150	23.65%
2	McKinsey & Company	N.A.	15.84%
3	Goldman Sachs	20	14.98%
4	Apple	103	13.68%
5	The Boston Consulting Group	N.A.	12.12%
6	Bain & Company	N.A.	10.81%
7	Walt Disney	67	8.83%
8	Nike	153	8.82%
9	Deloitte	N.A.	8.11%
10	J.P. Morgan	12	7.94%
11	General Electric	6	7.68%
12	Microsoft	44	7.59%
13	Johnson & Johnson	35	7.58%
14	Procter & Gamble	23	6.48%
15	Morgan Stanley	21	6.47%
16	Lehman Brothers	37	6.12%
17	Starbucks	277	5.73%
18	Merrill Lynch	30	5.37%
19	Coca-Cola	83	5.13%
20	BMW	N.A.	4.84%
21	Citigroup	8	4.75%
22	Ernst & Young	N.A.	4.70%
23	Amazon.com	171	4.60%
24	Bank of America	9	4.52%
25	Booz Allen Hamilton *	N.A.	4.49%
26	Target	31	4.11%
27	Toyota	N.A.	4.10%
28	American Express	75	3.93%
29	IBM	15	3.69%
30	UBS	N.A.	3.64%
31	3M	100	3.62%
32	Yahoo!	353	3.62%
33	Starwood Hotels & Resorts	396	3.55%
34	Sony	N.A.	3.52%
35	PricewaterhouseCoopers	N.A.	3.35%
36	PepsiCo	59	3.34%
37	Central Intelligence Agency	N.A.	3.30%
38	Accenture	N.A.	3.25%
39	Exxon Mobil	2	3.21%
40	L'Oréal	N.A.	3.17%
41	Genentech	N.A.	3.13%
42	Nestlé	N.A.	3.12%
43	Cisco Systems	71	2.98%
44	Intel	60	2.97%
45	Fidelity Investments	N.A.	2.91%
46	Boeing	27	2.84%
47	Federal Bureau of Investigation	N.A.	2.83%
48	LVMH	N.A.	2.82%
49	Deutsche Bank	N.A.	2.76%
50	Credit Suisse	N.A.	2.76%
51	KPMG	N.A.	2.69%
52	Marriott	197	2.68%
53	eBay	326	2.65%
54	Southwest Airlines	267	2.63%
55	Time Warner	49	2.55%
56	Unilever	N.A.	2.49%
57	Anheuser-Busch	149	2.45%
58	Chevron	3	2.45%
59	Gap	162	2.40%
60	Kraft Foods	63	2.39%
61	General Mills	214	2.30%
62	Barclays Capital	N.A.	2.22%
63	Dell	34	2.20%
64	Hewlett-Packard	14	2.17%
65	Harrah's Entertainment	244	2.10%
66	Shell Oil Company	N.A.	2.00%
67	HSBC	N.A.	1.99%
68	Lockheed Martin	57	1.89%
69	BP	N.A.	1.86%
70	MGM Mirage	323	1.86%
71	Wachovia Corp.	38	1.73%
72	Wells Fargo	41	1.64%
73	Diageo	N.A.	1.54%
74	Mattel	413	1.54%
75	FedEx	68	1.54%
76	Bear Stearns	156	1.54%
77	Mayo Clinic	N.A.	1.51%
78	Best Buy	66	1.50%
79	Pfizer	47	1.50%
80	American Airlines	109	1.48%
81	Nokia	N.A.	1.45%
82	The Vanguard Group	N.A.	1.44%
83	Mercer Management Consulting **	N.A.	1.43%
84	Medtronic	217	1.42%
85	Hershey	471	1.40%
86	Eli Lilly	133	1.39%
87	Monitor Group	N.A.	1.33%
88	Miller Brewing Company	N.A.	1.29%
89	Amgen	173	1.27%
90	Honda Companies	N.A.	1.26%
91	ING U.S. Financial Services	N.A.	1.23%
92	Colgate-Palmolive	186	1.20%
93	Limited Brands	257	1.16%
94	Cargill	N.A.	1.10%
95	Kellogg	227	1.06%
96	A.T. Kearney	N.A.	1.01%
97	Wal-Mart Stores	1	0.95%
98	Merck	101	0.95%
99	GlaxoSmithKline	N.A.	0.94%
100	American International Group	13	0.91%

Published May 22, 2008

* Booz Allen Hamilton split into two businesses May 21, 2008 -- one for the government sector that will retain its original name and be sold to private equity firm The Carlyle Group, and another entity called Booz & Company for its commercial business.

** Mercer Management Consulting joined with Mercer Oliver Wyman, and Mercer Delta Organizational Consulting last year to become one firm named Oliver Wyman.

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