The 30 most most attractive US companies for engineering students

Madison HoffJul 30, 2020, 18:47 IST

Lockheed Martin is the third-most-attractive US company for engineering students.Isaac Brekken/Getty Images

Universum just published its annual rankings of the most attractive US employers for students.
The employer-branding company asked college students about what companies and agencies they most want to work for.
Tesla and SpaceX remained as the top employers for engineering students, although they swapped positions from last year's ranking.

Engineering students are most interested in working for aerospace and defense organizations, automobile manufacturers, and tech giants.

Employer-branding company Universum just published this year's ranking of the most attractive US employers. Universum surveyed over 43,700 students from a variety of fields and universities about what they want in a future employer.

One of the questions asked respondents for the five ideal employers that they most wanted to work for. The employer-branding firm then ranked companies and organizations by finding which had the highest shares of students in various majors and fields of study naming them as one of their ideal employers.

According to Universum's results, engineering students are looking to work for aerospace companies, such as Boeing and SpaceX. Major tech companies like Intel and Microsoft also are ideal employers for these students.

The following are the 30 most attractive employers for students in engineering:

30. Turner Construction: 3.4% of engineering students ranked this construction company among their top five ideal employers.

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29. Medtronic: 3.7% of engineering students ranked this medical-device company among their top five ideal employers.

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28. Environmental Protection Agency: 3.7% of engineering students ranked this government agency among their top five ideal employers.

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27. IBM: 3.8% of engineering students ranked this tech company among their top five ideal employers.

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26. Intel: 3.8% of engineering students ranked this tech company among their top five ideal employers.

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25. Rolls-Royce: 4.0% of engineering students ranked this automobile company among their top five ideal employers.

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24. Central Intelligence Agency: 4.1% of engineering students ranked this foreign intelligence agency among their top five ideal employers.

The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Larry Downing

23. United States Department of Energy: 4.3% of engineering students ranked this government department among their top five ideal employers.

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22. Raytheon: 4.3% of engineering students ranked this aerospace and defense company among their top five ideal employers.

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21. Toyota: 4.4% of engineering students ranked this automobile company among their top five ideal employers.

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19. Johnson & Johnson: 4.4% of engineering students ranked this medical device and pharmaceutical company among their top five ideal employers.

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18. ExxonMobil: 4.5% of engineering students ranked this oil and gas company among their top five ideal employers.

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17. Boston Dynamics: 4.7% of engineering students ranked this robotics company among their top five ideal employers.

Marc Robert, Founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics presents "Spot", during the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon. Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

16. BMW Group: 5.0% of engineering students ranked this automobile company among their top five ideal employers.

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15. General Motors: 5.1% of engineering students ranked this carmaker among their top five ideal employers.

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14. Department of Defense: 5.2% of engineering students ranked this government department among their top five ideal employers.

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13. General Electric: 5.6% of engineering students ranked this conglomerate among their top five ideal employers.

The logo of General Electric is shown at its subsidiary company GE Aviation in Santa Ana, California on April 13, 2016. Mike Blake/Reuters

12. Ford Motor: 5.7% of engineering students ranked this automobile company among their top five ideal employers.

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11. Northrop Grumman: 7.0% of engineering students ranked this aerospace and defense company among their top five ideal employers.

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is lowered into a horizontal position for final cargo load on Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, U.S., April 16, 2019. NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS

10. Amazon: 7.5% of engineering students ranked this e-commerce company among their top five ideal employers.

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9. The Walt Disney Company: 7.9% of engineering students ranked this entertainment company among their top five ideal employers.

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8. Microsoft: 8.3% of engineering students ranked this tech company among their top five ideal employers.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers the keynote address during the Microsoft Build 2016 Developers Conference in San Francisco. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

7. Apple: 12.7% of engineering students ranked this tech giant among their top five ideal employers.

The Apple logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York. Mike Segar/Reuters

6. NASA: 14.0% of engineering students ranked America's space agency among their top five ideal employers.

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5. Boeing: 14.5% of engineering students ranked this aerospace company among their top five ideal employers.

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4. Google: 15.1% of engineering students ranked this tech giant among their top five ideal employers.

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3. Lockheed Martin: 16.2% of engineering students ranked this aerospace and defense company among their top five ideal employers.

Lockheed Martin is the third-most-attractive US company for engineering students. Isaac Brekken/Getty Images

2. SpaceX: 19.9% of engineering students ranked this space company among their top five ideal employers.

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1. Tesla: 22.0% of engineering students ranked this automobile company among their top five ideal employers.

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