Top 100
Rank Company 2012 Fortune 500 rank % students who
put in top 5
1 Google 73 25.35%
2 McKinsey & Company N.A. 17.76%
3 Apple 17 16.66%
4 Bain & Company N.A. 13.21%
5 Boston Consulting Group N.A. 12.87%
6 Amazon.com 56 11.94%
7 Goldman Sachs Group 80 10.71%
8 Facebook N.A. 9.35%
9 Nike 136 8.87%
10 JPMorgan 16 8.68%
11 Deloitte N.A. 8.38%
12 Walt Disney 66 8.08%
13 IDEO N.A. 7.06%
14 Blackstone Group N.A. 6.96%
15 Johnson & Johnson 42 6.86%
16 General Electric 6 6.07%
17 Microsoft 37 6.03%
18 Procter & Gamble 27 6.01%
19 Morgan Stanley 68 5.40%
20 Starbucks 227 5.38%
21 Coca-Cola 59 4.76%
22 International Business Machines 19 4.37%
23 BMW N.A. 4.15%
24 LVMH N.A. 4.05%
25 American Express 95 3.99%
26 Nestlé USA N.A. 3.91%
27 PepsiCo 41 3.79%
28 Intel 51 3.51%
29 PricewaterhouseCoopers N.A. 3.47%
30 U.S. Department of State N.A. 3.39%
31 Unilever N.A. 3.34%
32 Accenture N.A. 3.33%
33 Exxon Mobil 1 3.33%
34 Credit Suisse N.A. 3.32%
35 Ernst & Young N.A. 3.32%
36 Southwest Airlines 167 3.30%
37 3M 102 3.27%
38 Target 38 3.19%
39 Barclays Capital N.A. 3.17%
40 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 13 3.13%
41 Starwood Hotels & Resorts 434 3.13%
42 L'Oréal N.A. 3.09%
43 Citigroup 20 3.00%
44 Booz & Company N.A. 2.96%
45 Central Intelligence Agency N.A. 2.81%
46 Kraft Foods 50 2.76%
47 Deutsche Bank N.A. 2.73%
48 Boeing 39 2.64%
49 Sony N.A. 2.59%
50 General Mills 181 2.59%
51 Booz Allen Hamilton 439 2.44%
52 Diageo N.A. 2.43%
53 Chevron 3 2.38%
54 Salesforce.com N.A. 2.28%
55 Anheuser-Busch InBev N.A. 2.20%
56 Siemens N.A. 2.15%
57 Fidelity Investments N.A. 2.14%
58 Shell Oil Company N.A. 2.11%
59 FBI N.A. 2.10%
60 KPMG N.A. 2.02%
61 eBay 228 2.00%
62 Gap 185 1.92%
63 Genentech N.A. 1.89%
64 A.T. Kearney N.A. 1.87%
65 Marriott International 217 1.86%
66 Mayo Clinic N.A. 1.76%
67 Wells Fargo 26 1.76%
68 Cisco Systems 64 1.74%
69 MillerCoors N.A. 1.70%
70 Lockheed Martin 58 1.70%
71 U.S. Department of Energy N.A. 1.69%
72 Mattel 388 1.64%
73 UBS N.A. 1.61%
74 Cargill N.A. 1.58%
75 Time Warner 103 1.57%
76 Medtronic 164 1.56%
77 Harrah's Entertainment N.A. 1.50%
78 Hilton Hotels Corporation N.A. 1.48%
79 Vanguard Group N.A. 1.47%
80 Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. N.A. 1.47%
81 BP N.A. 1.46%
82 Groupon N.A. 1.45%
83 Wal-Mart Stores 2 1.45%
84 United Airlines N.A. 1.43%
85 Zynga N.A. 1.39%
86 Pfizer 40 1.39%
87 Bloomberg N.A. 1.35%
88 HSBC N.A. 1.33%
89 Hewlett-Packard 10 1.31%
90 Mars N.A. 1.31%
91 Monitor Group N.A. 1.31%
92 Teach for America N.A. 1.30%
93 AT&T 11 1.23%
94 Daimler/Mercedes-Benz N.A. 1.18%
95 Yahoo 483 1.18%
96 Dell 44 1.16%
97 Abbott Laboratories 71 1.14%
98 Colgate-Palmolive 155 1.12%
99 National Security Agency N.A. 1.11%
100 Oracle 82 1.07%
Published June 4, 2012
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