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The Most Desirable Employers

Special Report: TK

If you're coming out of college today, you know how tough the job market is. But that doesn't mean you can't dream of working for the ideal employer. Here's a look at the most attractive companies according to more than 60,000 U.S. undergraduates surveyed by research firm Universum USA from December 2008 to April 2009. Data can be sorted by ranking, percentage of total votes cast by students from a particular major, or by the combined totals of all students.

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Overall Rank 2009	Overall Rank 2008	Employer	Business 2009 Rank	Engineering 2009 Rank	IT 2009 Rank	Liberal Arts 2009 Rank	Natural Sciences 2009 Rank

1	1	Google	2	4	1	4	7
2	2	Walt Disney	4	7	8	2	6
3	3	Apple Computer	7	10	3	8	19
4	5	U.S. Department of State	20	40	21	1	13
5	14	FBI	15	25	9	6	11
6	4	Ernst & Young	1	140	36	72	99
7	8	Peace Corps	45	38	57	5	5
8	9	NASA	51	1	7	18	4
9	10	PricewaterhouseCoopers	3	143	41	101	114
10	11	Teach for America	50	67	61	3	14
11	12	Central Intelligence Agency	27	15	14	7	15
12	7	Deloitte	5	75	24	81	118
13	13	Microsoft	12	11	2	16	25
14	NR	American Cancer Society	49	81	131	9	2
15	17	Nike	10	47	28	14	21
16	18	Johnson & Johnson	17	17	55	19	10
17	NR	Major League Baseball	11	53	38	11	20
18	16	KPMG	6	187	42	169	174
19	15	J.P. Morgan	8	78	34	34	51
20	20	Mayo Clinic	86	50	80	15	1
21	6	Goldman Sachs	9	61	51	45	70
22	NR	U.S. Department of Energy	64	6	26	13	12
23	22	Coca-Cola	13	59	39	17	30
24	NR	Centers for Disease Control	113	71	60	12	3
25	26	Procter & Gamble	16	18	45	43	27
26	21	BMW	21	9	31	33	44
27	27	Lockheed Martin Corporation	57	2	18	73	37
28	24	Sony	23	21	11	22	35
29	23	Boeing	46	3	22	62	45
30	28	General Electric	30	5	30	66	42
31	29	Bank of America	14	125	46	39	48
32	30	National Security Agency	79	44	19	10	24
33	37	Hilton Hotels Corporation	22	119	65	30	65
34	31	Coach	26	155	96	21	53
35	34	IBM	36	16	4	79	63
36	38	Target	28	122	44	25	38
37	44	Electronic Arts	53	39	5	26	72
38	46	Marriott	25	148	120	40	74
39	40	L'Oreal	32	76	115	28	47
40	25	Morgan Stanley	19	113	99	83	84
41	32	Starbucks	39	134	58	24	29
42	45	Toyota	40	19	37	59	75
43	33	Pfizer	78	46	89	63	9
44	64	ExxonMobil	62	8	56	98	46
45	49	Federal Reserve Bank	24	170	84	51	61
46	35	Time Warner	38	141	49	20	109
47	53	Amazon.com	52	87	16	23	81
48	56	U.S. Air Force	96	24	40	36	22
49	NR	Macy's Inc.	31	180	104	32	77
50	41	Anheuser-Busch InBev	33	69	79	53	71

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