Fortune's US Employer Ranking 2002: Where MBAs Most Want to Work

From October 2001 through February 2002, Universum surveyed 2,807 MBA students at 40 leading schools. Students were asked to pick five companies (from a list of 137, with write-in spaces) for which they would most like to work.

2002 Rank 2001 Rank Company % Who Put in Top Five
1 1 McKinsey & Co. 21.3%
2 2 Boston Consulting Group 15.7%
3 4 Goldman Sachs 14.8%
4 25 General Electric 12.4%
5 5 Bain & Co. 12.3%
6 37 Citigroup 9.3%
7 10 Morgan Stanley 9.1%
8 13 Walt Disney 8.7%
9 11 IBM 8.3%
10 38 Coca-Cola 8.1%
11 21 Microsoft 7.9%
12 7 Booz Allen Hamilton 7.9%
13 23 J.P. Morgan Chase 7.8%
14 29 Johnson & Johnson 7.4%
15 15 AOL Time Warner 7.1%
16 12 Deloitte Consulting 6.9%
17 6 Accenture 6.9%
18 19 3M 6.6%
19 27 BMW 6.5%
20 41 Southwest Airlines 6.4%
21 24 American Express 6.0%
22 22 Merrill Lynch 6.0%
23 48 Pfizer 5.9%
24 30 Procter & Gamble 5.9%
25 54 Nike 5.5%
26 18 Amazon.com 5.5%
27 28 Credit Suisse First Boston 5.2%
28 42 Fidelity Investments 5.0%
29 8 Intel 4.9%
30 36 Lehman Brothers 4.7%
31 112 Lilly 4.7%
32 49 Sony 4.7%
33 3 Cisco Systems 4.5%
34 155 Fox Entertainment 4.5%
35 39 Kraft Foods 4.5%
36 55 Bank of America 4.3%
37 149 Arthur Andersen** 4.2%
38 26 PricewaterhouseCoopers 4.2%
39 14 Dell Computer 4.2%
40 57 Gap 4.2%
41 16 A.T. Kearney 4.1%
42 115 General Mills 4.1%
43 50 Nestlé 4.0%
44 143 UBS/Warburg 3.5%
45 — GlaxoSmithKline 3.5%
46 60 Merck 3.5%
47 33 Ford Motor 3.2%
48 9 Hewlett-Packard 3.2%
49 97 ExxonMobil 3.1%
50 151 Apple Computer 3.1%
51 66 Deutsche Bank 3.0%
52 51 Enron 3.0%
53 61 Bristol-Myers Squibb 3.0%
54 153 PepsiCo 2.9%
55 58 Amgen 2.9%
56 71 Unilever 2.9%
57 N.A. Abbott Laboratories 2.8%
58 N.A. Toyota 2.8%
59 N.A. L'Oréal 2.7%
60 45 Oracle 2.7%
61 79 Colgate-Palmolive 2.7%
62 N.A. Duke Energy 2.6%
63 34 Nokia 2.6%
64 43 American Airlines 2.6%
65 142 Boeing 2.6%
66 146 Agilent Technologies 2.5%
67 59 Cap Gemini Ernst & Young 2.4%
68 N.A. KPMG Consulting 2.3%
69 101 BP 2.3%
70 17 Yahoo! 2.3%
71 68 Janus Capital 2.2%
72 77 Barclays Global Investors 2.2%
73 62 Ernst & Young 2.1%
74 31 Sun Microsystems 2.1%
75 131 General Motors 2.1%
76 N.A. Vivendi 2.0%
77 47 Bear Stearns 2.0%
78 N.A. Siebel Systems 1.9%
79 98 Gillette 1.8%
80 87 Target 1.8%
81 147 DaimlerChrysler 1.7%
82 53 Mercer Management Consulting 1.7%
83 91 Siemens 1.7%
84 46 Motorola 1.6%
85 N.A. ABN Amro 1.6%
86 N.A. John Deere 1.6%
87 N.A. Shell Oil 1.5%
88 N.A. Dynegy 1.5%
89 90 Bayer 1.5%
90 40 Lucent Technologies 1.5%
91 73 AT&T 1.5%
92 70 Charles Schwab 1.5%
93 75 KPMG 1.4%
94 140 Capital One 1.4%
95 N.A. Wal-Mart Stores 1.4%
96 89 Cargill 1.4%
97 83 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu 1.4%
98 103 United Technologies 1.3%
99 84 Honeywell 1.3%
100 85 Lockheed Martin 1.2%

Fortune, 14. April 2002