Fortune.com - 100 Most Desirable MBA Employers 2005

Fortune.com - 100 Most Desirable MBA Employers 2005

This is the annual survey that Fortune Magazine sends out to MBA graduates and asks them who they most want to work for. I've posted the list of the top 10 below from their website (link above). For access to the rest of the list, you need to buy the upcoming issue of Fortune, or subscribe to their website.

Some Minnesota companies that made the list (rank in parentheses): 3M (17), Target (46), General Mills (53), Best Buy (61), Medtronic (72), Guidant (80).

And these companies have offices in Minnesota: McKinsey (1), General Electric (10), Deloitte (12), IBM (14), American Express (20), Accenture (30), PricewaterhouseCoopers (38), Ernst & Young (55), BearingPoint (70), KPMG (71), Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (93).

In addition to this list, columnist Anne Fisher writes about Why It's a Good Time to be an MBA. She highlights that students are getting more offers and are venturing outside the traditional on-campus MBA recruiters. More and more companies are recognizing the value of an MBA besides the consultants and bankers, which results in increasing overall interest in the skills MBA graduates can provide employers.

2005 Rank	2004 Rank	Company	% Who Put in Top Five
1	1	McKinsey & Company	18.03
2	2	Citigroup	13.55
3	3	Goldman Sachs	12.55
4	7	Bain & Company	11.55
5	13	The Boston Consulting Group	9.79
6	5	Johnson & Johnson	9.64
7	10	Booz Allen Hamilton	9.47
8	19	Bank of America	8.71
9	25	Morgan Stanley	8.60
10	9	General Electric	8.21