The table below presents the 50 most popular employers among students surveyed by The Universum Diversity Survey 2002.The survey, which is conducted annually by the international research and consulting firm Universum Communications, monitors the employment-related opinions of undergraduate and MBA students with minority backgrounds. Over 3,500 students at 53 of the finest universities throughout the United States participated in the 2002 survey.

From a list on the survey questionnaire, respondents were asked to select up to five companies as their “ideal employers,” or the companies for which they would most like to work. (They had the option of writing in two companies if their preferred employers were not already present on the list.) The data was subsequently tabulated, with the companies selected by the greatest percentage of respondents given the highest rankings on the list of minority students' ideal employers.

* Percentages rounded to nearest hundredth.