For Many Students, Government Agencies Are the Most Attractive Employers. Really.

Corporations are spending time and money recruiting young, idealistic college students by showing they care about social responsibility as much as profit. They still can’t compete with organizations that don’t care about profit at all. U.S. students across a wide swath of academic disciplines ranked governmental organizations like NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the United Nations as the most attractive employers, ahead of corporate luminaries like Google, Apple, and Goldman Sachs. Other highly ranked organizations outside of business include the Mayo Clinic, the EPA, Doctors Without Borders, and the State Department.