Top Employers for the Class of '08 Ranking

Rank	Employer	Total Hires	Campuses
1	Enterprise Rent-A-Car	8,500	1000
2	Walgreens	7,500	600
3	Deloitte Services LP	5,830	450
4	IBM	4,700	30
5	Peace Corps	4,000	400
6	Target Corporation	3,750	500
7	PricewaterhouseCoopers	3,180	195
8	Ernst & Young	3,125	250
9	KPMG LLP	3,000	300
10	Lockheed Martin	2,770	86
11	U.S. Department of State	2,300	58
12	Gwinnett County Public Schools – Metro Atlanta	2,200	27
13	The Los Angeles Unified School District	2,000	130
14	Teachers Support Network	2,000	65
15	General Electric	1,600	40
16	City Year, Inc.	1,500	150
17	Northrop Grumman	1,500	100
18	Kroger	1,400	200
19	State Farm Insurance Company	1,392	255
20	Accenture	1,270	100
21	Kaiser Permanente	1,267	89
22	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	1,260	90
23	Microsoft	1,250	250
24	Safeco Insurance	1,200	8
25	Raytheon Company	1,125	130
26	Baltimore City Public School System	912	0
27	Liberty Mutual Group	880	130
28	Qualcomm	828	15
29	Grant Thornton LLP	750	80
30	The Sherwin-Williams Company	750	400
31	Union County Public Schools	700	26
32	Macy's, Inc.	693	95
33	Procter & Gamble	690	80
34	GEICO	650	307
35	RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen	650	160
36	Halliburton	628	70
37	Cummins Inc.	600	40
38	Northwestern Mutual Financial Network	525	300
39	Yahoo!	450	12
40	Aetna	450	52
41	Hyatt Hotels Corporation	420	50
42	North East Florida Education Consortium	402	0
43	BAE SYSTEMS	400	60
44	Compass Group, North America	360	15
45	United States Steel Corporation	350	45
46	John Deere	340	40
47	Marriott International, Inc.	335	72
48	HDR	325	75
49	Harford County Public Schools	300	85
50	Turner Construction company	280	100
51	Intel	260	40
52	Amazon.com	225	18
53	Abbott	220	40
54	National City Corporation	220	32
55	Polk County Schools	205	0
56	Lowe’s Companies, Inc	200	80
57	Madison Metropolitan School District	199	49
58	National Instruments	190	50
59	Eastman Chemical Company	170	60
60	PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.	165	18
61	Office of the Comptroller of the Currency	155	45
62	DuPont	150	50
63	Jersey City Public Schools	150	11
64	Harris Corporation	144	31
65	The Pepsi Bottling Group	140	75
66	Towers Perrin	140	35
67	Navigant Consulting Inc.	131	35
68	John Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory	125	25
69	The TJX Companies, Inc.	120	17
70	Electronic Arts (EA)	120	30
71	Stockamp & Associates	110	15
72	Fort Wayne Community Schools	100	7
73	ITT Space Systems Division	100	15
74	KBR	100	15
75	AMERICAN AIRLINES	90	30
76	American Civil Liberties Union	85	10
77	The Aerospace Corporation	75	37
78	Adobe Systems	75	10
79	Eckerd Youth Alternatives	70	30
80	Hess Corporation	68	18
81	L'Oreal USA	65	10
82	Spencer Reed Group, LLC	60	5
83	Auburn City Schools	60	10
84	AREVA	60	25
85	Palm Restaurant Group	52	8
86	EMBARQ	52	20
87	Pennsylvania Department of Transportation	50	50
88	Owens Corning	44	16
89	Talbots	37	40
90	Honda R&D Americas, Inc.	30	35
91	Hercules Incorporated	30	20
92	The Children's Place and Disney Store North America	30	20
93	Genentech	25	20
94	Kearney & Company	25	15
95	SWIFT	20	6
96	Kaplan Higher Education	20	12
97	Central Michigan University	17	0
98	Linde Process Plants Inc	15	4
99	Ace Hardware Corporation	12	3
100	Time Warner Cable	10	10


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