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Campus Reality Guides
Job Market
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2% did not report havingaccepted an offer
| Top 10 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year | No. hired |
| Deloitte Touche Tomatsu | 20 |
| Ernst & Young | 10 |
| General Electric; Goldman Sachs | 9 |
| Johnson & Johnson; Morgan Stanley; Target Corporation | 8 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers; Epic Systems; Huron Consulting; Citigroup | 7 |
| KPMG; Deutsch Bank; General Mills; McGladrey & Pullen; Starcom Worldwide | 6 |
| IBM Corporation | 5 |
| Crowe Chizek; FTI Consulting; Protiviti; SMART; Liberty Mutual | 4 |
| Accenture; JPMorgan; Nestle USA; PRocter & Gamble; SPX Corporation; Baker Hill; Lockheed Martin | 3 |
| ABN AMRO; AC Nielsen BASES; AT &T; BP; Bain & Co.; Countrywide Financial; Credit Suisse Group; GEICO | 2 |
| Historic Salary Prospects for 2005 Grads (school reported) | |
| Average base salary | $ 48,945.00 |
| Median base salary | $ 48,815.00 |
| Average signing bonus | $ 3,840.00 |
| Median signing bonus | $ 3,000.00 |
| Average other guaranteed compensation | $ 3,680.00 |
| Median other guaranteed compensation | $ 3,000.00 |
| Finance (includes corporate finance, investments, treasury and financial analysis, public finance, etc.) | 37% |
| Accounting/auditing | 21% |
| General Management | 0% |
| Human Resources | 1% |
| Marketing/Sales (includes public relations, product management, market research, advertising, etc.) | 20% |
| Management Information Systems | 5%% |
| Operations | 0% |
| Logistics/Transportation | 0% |
| Other | 16% |
| Accounting | 20% |
| Consumer Products & Retail | 11% |
| Consulting | 10% |
| Financial Services | 28% |
| Government, Nonprofit, & Education | 3% |
| Health | NA % |
| Manufacturing | 5% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% |
| Sports & Leisure | 3% |
| Technology & Science | 8% |
| Transportation | 1% |
| UTILITIES | 1% |
| Other | 5% |
| Northeast (ME, VT, NY, NH, CT, MA, NJ, RI) | 22% |
| Mid-Atlantic (PA, MD, VA, WV, DE, DC) | 4% |
| South (NC, SC, KY, TN, GA, FL, AL, AR, LA, MS) | 5% |
| Southwest (CO, AZ, TX, OK, NM) | 4% |
| Midwest (WI, MO, KS, IA, MN, NE, MI, OH, IN, ND, SD, IL) | 59% |
| West (CA, HI, WA, OR, AK, MT, ID, UT, NV, WY) | 6% |
| U.S. possessions and territories (America Samoa, Palau, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands) | 0% |
| Canada | 0% |
| Average compensation per week | $ 896.00 |
| Median compensation per week | $ 950.00 |
| Average internship length (weeks) | 10 |
| Top 10 Recruiting Firms for Internships | No. interns |
| Deloitte Touche Tomatsu | 53 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | 31 |
| KPMG LLP | 22 |
| General Electric | 20 |
| Ernst & Young | 15 |
| Goldman Sachs; Citigroup; Crowe Chizek | 7 |
| Deutsche Bank; Northwestern Mutual | 6 |
| Morgan Stanley; Target; Procter & Gamble; Aon; EchoStar Communications | 4 |
| Merrill Lynch; ACCION; Bear Stearns | 3 |
| ABN AMRO;Abbott Laboratories;Countrywide Financial;FTI Consulting;HSBC;Verizon;Vanguard;Whirlpool | 2 |
| The average gift was | $ 2,279.00 |
| The median gift was | $ 100.00 |
