The government is making gains on Google, Microsoft and Apple when it comes to being some of the top choice employers among new information technology graduates.
In a new survey by Universum of more than 60,000 college students, Google is still the top employer among IT students as well as students overall. Students studying IT also ranked Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Electronic Arts, Walt Disney Company, Amazon and Cisco among their top picks for employment after graduation.
Federal agencies still ranked well among IT students. For example, NASA was ranked at number 10 among IT majors, while the FBI, National Security Agency, CIA and the Defense Department all placed in the top 20. The State, Treasury and Energy departments, the Air Force and Army, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency rounded out the list of federal agencies in the top 50, the study found.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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