RANK COMPANY Calvin Kleinl 5'3M 53 ! : 56 57 59 f,1 6v 63 65 6b 67 68- 69 71 -' 13 . ",74 79_77 79 81 83 85 7 87.. 09 91 93. to 99 Amazon.com Southwest Airlines Bain & Company U.S. Air Force Gap Inc. Discovery Communications Deutsche Bank Merck GlaxoSmithKline American Express PepsiCo ExxonMobil American Airlines Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Dell Cardinal Health Maxim Healthcare UBS Accenture Wachovia Corporation Honda Companies Northrop Grumman Corporation Genentech Wyeth Pharmaceuticals eBay Wells Fargo & Company Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide BP Lilly (Eli Lilly and Company) Cisco Systems McGraw-Hill Companies Hewlett-Packard General Motors Nestle Credit Suisse Shell Oil Company Verizon Fidelity Investments General Mills Adobe Systems DuPont Best Buy Rolls-Royce North America Kraft Foods Dow Chemical Raytheon Miller Brewing Company PREFERRED BY 2.24% 2.23% 2.12% 2.04% 1.98% 1.97% 1.93% 1.91% 1.90% 1.87% 1.83% 1.83% 1.83% 1.81% 1.81% 1.77% 1.76% 1.70% 1.69% 1.68% 1.66% 1.63% 1.61% 1.53% 1.49% 1.48% 1.44% 1.42% 1.39% 1.38% 1.38% 1.38% 1.36% 1.35% 1.34% 1.32% 1.32% 1.32% 1.31% 1.3 1% 1.30% 1.24% 1.23% 1.20% 1.19% 1.14% 1.14% 1.12% 1.10% 1.07% 2008 TOP 10 IDEAL BUSINESS EMPLOYERS An established reputation trumped cutting-edge technology for business and communications students, who chose Ernst & Young as their ideal employer over PwC, which held the top spot last year. RAN COMPANY PREFERRED BY 1 Ernst & Young 19.43% 2 Google 17.82% 3 PricewaterhouseCoopers 15.41% 4 Deloitte 15.26% 5 Goldman Sachs 13.59% 6 Walt Disney 13.37% 7 KPMG 12.66% 8 Apple Computer 10.43% 9 JPMorgan 10.30% 10 Merrill Lynch 8.61% 2008 TOP 10 IDEAL ENGINEERING EMPLOYERS Engineers' sights are set sky-high: They chose NASA as their top employer this year, over 2007's favorite, Boeing. RANK c AY PREFERRED BY 1 NASA 21.51% 2 Lockheed Martin Corporation 16.56% 3 Boeing 16.04% 4 Google 15.04% 5 General Electric 11.94% 6 Apple Computer 9.09% 7 Microsoft 8.69% 8 BMW 8.48% 9 Intel 7.82% 10 Walt Disney 7.53% 1 I 4 4 TOP CAREER GOALS Work/life balance reigns supreme yet again for undergraduate students. Work/life balance QUESTION Which career goals are most important to you? Job security Dedication to a cause Competitive or intellectual challenge 63.68% 45.44% 44.52% 38.90% Bayer Lead or manage people 33.38% Entrepreneurial or creative/ 24.18% innovation Work internationally 17.31% Technical or functional expertise 16.65% Independence 14.66% 4 6 JUNLE CAMPU FALL 2008