Ideal Undergraduate Employers 2007
Here's a look at the most desirable employers for recent college grads from Universum's 2007 survey. Data can be sorted by ranking or percent of total votes cast by students from a particular major, or by the the combined totals of all students.
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Click column heading once to reorder from highest to lowest. Click twice to reorder from lowest to highest.
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| ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR | 177 | 0.23 | 139 | 0.47 | 174 | 0.12 | null | | 199 | 0.01 | 180 | 0.05 | | MERVYN'S | 198 | 0.08 | 190 | 0.12 | 186 | 0.08 | null | | 187 | 0.05 | 168 | 0.09 | | BOEING | 15 | 4.83 | 47 | 2.39 | 50 | 1.47 | 1 | 19.59 | 34 | 2.43 | 18 | 6.44 | | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 20 | 4.50 | 63 | 1.73 | 45 | 1.76 | 2 | 18.11 | 37 | 2.30 | 11 | 8.88 | | GENERAL ELECTRIC | 25 | 4.01 | 37 | 3.08 | 55 | 1.43 | 3 | 14.04 | 41 | 2.00 | 23 | 4.04 | | BMW | 13 | 5.36 | 17 | 5.53 | 17 | 3.77 | 4 | 10.96 | 23 | 3.12 | 22 | 4.66 | | NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION | 57 | 1.83 | 121 | 0.59 | 118 | 0.43 | 5 | 8.36 | 88 | 0.73 | 29 | 3.12 | | GOOGLE | 1 | 13.37 | 2 | 13.41 | 4 | 13.90 | 6 | 7.98 | 5 | 8.63 | 1 | 40.31 | | TOYOTA | 39 | 2.56 | 54 | 2.05 | 51 | 1.47 | 7 | 7.77 | 67 | 1.12 | 54 | 1.35 | | GENERAL MOTORS | 53 | 1.96 | 78 | 1.24 | 75 | 0.98 | 8 | 7.47 | 76 | 0.92 | 53 | 1.36 | | RAYTHEON | 68 | 1.55 | 130 | 0.53 | 114 | 0.46 | 9 | 6.22 | 69 | 1.09 | 28 | 3.15 | | WALT DISNEY | 2 | 10.03 | 4 | 11.33 | 7 | 11.65 | 10 | 6.04 | 9 | 6.85 | 19 | 6.34 | | INTEL | 46 | 2.44 | 91 | 0.91 | 102 | 0.59 | 11 | 5.96 | 59 | 1.30 | 5 | 19.40 | | APPLE COMPUTER | 3 | 8.47 | 7 | 9.37 | 8 | 8.35 | 12 | 5.91 | 14 | 5.34 | 4 | 19.65 | | IBM | 30 | 3.37 | 49 | 2.34 | 59 | 1.31 | 13 | 5.75 | 42 | 1.90 | 3 | 21.42 | | SONY | 16 | 4.80 | 19 | 4.90 | 19 | 3.53 | 14 | 5.59 | 27 | 2.77 | 6 | 12.93 | | 3M | 36 | 2.79 | 38 | 3.05 | 68 | 1.10 | 15 | 5.31 | 26 | 2.85 | 55 | 1.34 | | MICROSOFT | 8 | 6.31 | 15 | 5.65 | 11 | 4.95 | 16 | 5.20 | 18 | 3.69 | 2 | 35.71 | | CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY | 6 | 6.72 | 24 | 4.31 | 5 | 13.56 | 17 | 5.18 | 11 | 6.44 | 13 | 7.13 | | PROCTER & GAMBLE | 21 | 4.45 | 14 | 5.74 | 28 | 2.76 | 18 | 5.13 | 16 | 3.93 | 78 | 0.85 | | JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 18 | 4.69 | 20 | 4.60 | 18 | 3.57 | 19 | 5.10 | 7 | 7.29 | 49 | 1.43 | | EXXONMOBIL | 62 | 1.72 | 73 | 1.35 | 116 | 0.44 | 20 | 4.67 | 46 | 1.71 | 61 | 1.18 | | HONDA COMPANIES | 75 | 1.39 | 97 | 0.87 | 86 | 0.78 | 21 | 4.66 | 94 | 0.65 | 45 | 1.52 | | FORD MOTOR COMPANY | 86 | 1.26 | 99 | 0.87 | 109 | 0.50 | 22 | 4.65 | 100 | 0.59 | 109 | 0.41 | | CATERPILLAR | 92 | 1.19 | 101 | 0.86 | 117 | 0.44 | 23 | 4.52 | 107 | 0.52 | 69 | 0.97 | | PEACE CORPS | 5 | 6.87 | 28 | 3.86 | 2 | 14.64 | 24 | 4.39 | 3 | 8.78 | 38 | 1.81 | | U.S. AIR FORCE | 54 | 1.89 | 116 | 0.70 | 41 | 2.02 | 25 | 4.17 | 22 | 3.25 | 37 | 1.82 | | DUPONT | 76 | 1.36 | 144 | 0.42 | 124 | 0.41 | 26 | 4.10 | 31 | 2.57 | 105 | 0.44 | | DOW CHEMICAL | 94 | 1.18 | 177 | 0.19 | 151 | 0.25 | 27 | 4.09 | 24 | 3.09 | 124 | 0.30 | | SHELL OIL COMPANY | 82 | 1.31 | 110 | 0.76 | 108 | 0.51 | 28 | 4.00 | 62 | 1.22 | 127 | 0.29 | | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 77 | 1.33 | 127 | 0.55 | 63 | 1.27 | 29 | 3.55 | 54 | 1.34 | 30 | 2.84 | | AMD | 73 | 1.43 | 132 | 0.50 | 144 | 0.29 | 30 | 3.42 | 78 | 0.90 | 9 | 11.80 | | PFIZER | 22 | 4.27 | 57 | 2.01 | 39 | 2.12 | 31 | 3.41 | 2 | 15.19 | 77 | 0.87 | | DAIMLERCHRYSLER | 108 | 0.92 | 115 | 0.72 | 167 | 0.16 | 32 | 3.25 | 148 | 0.25 | 59 | 1.21 | | ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICA | 95 | 1.16 | 86 | 1.05 | 96 | 0.66 | 33 | 3.23 | 106 | 0.52 | 89 | 0.57 | | GENENTECH | 52 | 1.99 | 150 | 0.38 | 99 | 0.63 | 34 | 3.22 | 8 | 7.29 | 102 | 0.45 | | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE | 4 | 6.87 | 30 | 3.81 | 1 | 20.18 | 35 | 3.18 | 17 | 3.71 | 44 | 1.52 | | BOSE CORPORATION | 101 | 1.02 | 124 | 0.56 | 112 | 0.47 | 36 | 3.18 | 110 | 0.50 | 46 | 1.49 | | SIEMENS | 106 | 0.96 | 137 | 0.48 | 128 | 0.40 | 37 | 3.06 | 83 | 0.84 | 48 | 1.44 | | HONEYWELL | 116 | 0.75 | 147 | 0.41 | 150 | 0.26 | 38 | 2.97 | 131 | 0.33 | 63 | 1.15 | | BP | 98 | 1.12 | 105 | 0.77 | 111 | 0.47 | 39 | 2.95 | 63 | 1.22 | 146 | 0.19 | | MERCK | 43 | 2.46 | 92 | 0.89 | 66 | 1.20 | 40 | 2.85 | 4 | 8.69 | 104 | 0.44 | | FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION | 9 | 6.27 | 22 | 4.46 | 6 | 12.94 | 41 | 2.82 | 13 | 5.90 | 21 | 5.18 | | MOTOROLA | 79 | 1.33 | 76 | 1.25 | 78 | 0.91 | 42 | 2.79 | 111 | 0.49 | 25 | 3.88 | | JOHN DEERE | 113 | 0.86 | 119 | 0.64 | 123 | 0.41 | 43 | 2.77 | 117 | 0.42 | 101 | 0.46 | | TURNER CONSTRUCTION | 121 | 0.69 | 142 | 0.44 | 154 | 0.23 | 44 | 2.74 | 159 | 0.21 | 107 | 0.43 | | NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY | 32 | 3.34 | 61 | 1.75 | 9 | 6.73 | 45 | 2.74 | 28 | 2.74 | 14 | 7.12 | | ANHEUSER-BUSCH | 34 | 3.04 | 25 | 4.10 | 32 | 2.50 | 46 | 2.70 | 44 | 1.80 | 51 | 1.39 | | BAE SYSTEMS | 139 | 0.53 | 182 | 0.15 | 180 | 0.10 | 47 | 2.60 | 172 | 0.13 | 56 | 1.25 | | U.S. ARMY | 66 | 1.60 | 112 | 0.74 | 38 | 2.19 | 48 | 2.56 | 25 | 2.87 | 68 | 0.98 |
NOTE: Students were allowed to choose up to five organizations where they wanted to get hired, so the “percentage of students who selected” refers to the percentage of students who put the organization in their top five.
DATA: Universum Communications, compiled from a survey of 44,064 U.S. undergraduates and provided exclusively to BusinessWee
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