Advice for Employers and Recruiters
Top 100 Employers of Choice for Natural Sciences Students
October 21, 2011
The recently posted article, Top 100 Ideal Employers for 2011 College Students and Recent Graduates, discussed the importance of employers having a positive brand on-campus as it made their recruitment efforts easier. In short, the best candidates want to work for the best employers so those best employers are better able to recruit the best candidates, which makes those employers even better.
Universum publishes a survey each year in which employers are ranked as the most ideal by tens of thousands of students at hundreds of colleges and universities. For 2011, the top 100 employers of choice as ranked by natural sciences students are:
Company | Ranking 2011 |
---|---|
National Institutes of Health | 1 |
Mayo Clinic | 2 |
American Cancer Society | 3 |
Centers for Disease Control | 4 |
Walt Disney Company | 5 |
Peace Corps | 6 |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | 7 |
NASA | 8 |
9 | |
FBI | 10 |
Apple | 11 |
United Nations | 12 |
Johnson & Johnson | 13 |
Maxim Healthcare | 14 |
U.S. Department of Energy | 15 |
Teach for America | 16 |
Pfizer | 17 |
Nike | 18 |
Central Intelligence Agency | 19 |
U.S. Department of State | 20 |
U.S. Air Force | 21 |
U.S. Navy | 22 |
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals | 23 |
24 | |
U.S. Army | 25 |
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 26 |
Ecolab | 27 |
Bayer | 28 |
Starbucks | 29 |
Microsoft | 30 |
GlaxoSmithKline | 31 |
Merck | 32 |
Genentech | 33 |
Target | 34 |
National Security Agency (NSA) | 35 |
L’Oréal | 36 |
The Coca-Cola Co. | 37 |
adidas | 38 |
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs | 39 |
Coach | 40 |
Procter & Gamble | 41 |
Life Technologies | 42 |
AstraZeneca | 43 |
Dow Chemical | 44 |
Under Armour, Inc. | 45 |
Sony | 46 |
Kraft Foods | 47 |
Macy’s Inc. | 48 |
Nestlé USA | 49 |
D.O.D. | 50 |
Humana | 51 |
Best Buy | 52 |
Boeing | 53 |
ConAgra Foods, Inc. | 54 |
General Mills | 55 |
Amazon | 56 |
Lilly | 57 |
BMW | 58 |
Amgen | 59 |
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 60 |
J.P. Morgan | 61 |
Abbott | 62 |
Shell Oil Company | 63 |
Waste Management | 64 |
Kohl’s | 65 |
McGraw-Hill Companies | 66 |
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 67 |
Electronic Arts | 68 |
Intel | 69 |
Southwest Airlines | 70 |
Delta Airlines | 71 |
Lockheed Martin Corporation | 72 |
Toys ‘R’ Us, Inc. | 73 |
Aetna | 74 |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | 75 |
United Airlines | 76 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb | 77 |
IBM | 78 |
IKEA | 79 |
American Airlines | 80 |
PepsiCo | 81 |
General Electric | 82 |
DuPont | 83 |
Cargill | 84 |
Yahoo! | 85 |
Siemens | 86 |
AT&T | 87 |
Marriott | 88 |
Anheuser-Busch InBev | 89 |
Monsanto | 90 |
Exxon Mobil Corporation | 91 |
Goldman Sachs | 92 |
Hilton Hotels Corporation | 93 |
MetLife | 94 |
Gap Inc. | 95 |
Heineken | 96 |
Wells Fargo & Company | 97 |
3M | 98 |
Verizon | 99 |
John Deere | 100 |
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