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100 Top MBA employers 

Companies where MBA candidates say they'd most like to work

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1 McKinsey & Company N.A. 22.28%
2 Google 241 21.46%
3 Goldman Sachs 24 19.78%
4 Bain & Company N.A. 16.35%
5 The Boston Consulting Group N.A. 15.14%
6 Apple 121 11.65%
7 Morgan Stanley 20 9.90%
8 Lehman Brothers 47 8.79%
9 General Electric 6 8.58%
10 Microsoft 49 7.86%
11 Merrill Lynch 22 7.07%
12 Booz Allen Hamilton N.A. 6.86%
13 Citigroup 8 6.68%
14 Nike 158 6.65%
15 J.P. Morgan Investment Bank N.A. 6.47%
16 Bank of America 9 5.45%
17 BMW N.A. 5.06%
18 Yahoo 357 5.00%
19 Deloitte N.A. 4.82%
20 Toyota N.A. 4.70%
21 Johnson & Johnson 36 4.33%
21 UBS N.A. 4.33%
23 Walt Disney 64 4.21%
24 Sony N.A. 4.09%
24 Amazon.com 237 4.09%
26 Fidelity Investments N.A. 4.06%
27 Deutsche Bank N.A. 3.88%
28 IBM 15 3.67%
29 Starbucks 310 3.49%
30 Genentech N.A. 3.46%
31 Procter & Gamble 25 3.43%
32 3M 97 3.22%
33 American Express 79 3.19%
34 Starwood Hotels & Resorts 381 3.16%
35 Bear Stearns 138 3.13%
35 eBay 383 3.13%
37 PepsiCo 63 3.04%
38 Credit Suisse N.A. 2.89%
38 A.T. Kearney N.A. 2.89%
40 Barclays Capital N.A. 2.83%
41 Amgen 171 2.62%
41 Intel 62 2.62%
43 Coca-Cola 94 2.59%
44 Harrah's Entertainment 254 2.47%
45 Monitor Group N.A. 2.38%
45 Target 33 2.38%
47 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 11 2.32%
48 Cisco Systems 77 2.26%
49 Accenture N.A. 2.23%
50 BP N.A. 2.11%
51 Boeing 28 2.02%
51 PricewaterhouseCoopers N.A. 2.02%
51 Dell 34 2.02%
54 Central Intelligence Agency N.A. 1.96%
55 Hewlett-Packard 14 1.90%
56 Southwest Airlines 276 1.75%
56 Exxon Mobil 2 1.75%
58 FedEx 68 1.69%
58 LVMH N.A. 1.69%
60 Medtronic 222 1.66%
60 Anheuser-Busch 146 1.66%
62 Diageo N.A. 1.63%
63 General Mills 213 1.57%
63 Marriott 203 1.57%
63 Chevron 4 1.57%
66 Wachovia Corp. 46 1.54%
67 Nestlé N.A. 1.51%
68 Time Warner 48 1.44%
68 Ernst & Young N.A. 1.44%
68 The Vanguard Group N.A. 1.44%
68 Honeywell 69 1.44%
72 Cargill N.A. 1.41%
73 MGM Mirage 315 1.35%
74 Wells Fargo 41 1.32%
74 HSBC N.A. 1.32%
76 Lockheed Martin 57 1.29%
76 Mercer Management Consulting N.A. 1.29%
76 Federal Bureau of Investigation N.A. 1.29%
79 Motorola 52 1.23%
79 Best Buy 72 1.23%
81 Pfizer 39 1.20%
82 Nokia N.A. 1.17%
83 Shell Oil Company N.A. 1.14%
83 Abbott Laboratories 102 1.14%
85 Honda Companies N.A. 1.08%
85 Kraft Foods N.A. 1.08%
87 General Motors 3 1.05%
87 Eli Lilly 149 1.05%
89 American Airlines 101 0.99%
89 Unilever N.A. 0.99%
89 Bose Corp. N.A. 0.99%
89 Merck 99 0.99%
93 American International Group 10 0.96%
93 Pulte Homes 170 0.96%
93 Miller Brewing Company N.A. 0.96%
96 Gap 144 0.93%
96 BearingPoint N.A. 0.93%
98 Verizon Communications 13 0.87%
99 Wal-Mart Stores 1 0.81%
100 Mattel 406 0.78%
Source: Universum
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Most popular with women
Google 20.25%
McKinsey & Company 16.19%
The Boston Consulting Group 12.56%
Best-paying fields
In which industries do MBA candidates think they'll be best-compensated?
Venture capital $107,919
Metals $102,000
Management consulting $101,404
How we pick the 100 Top MBA Employers
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