The Best Places to Intern!

Dearest internees,

If you're on the prowl for a grade A internship, you're probably wondering where the best place is to look for one. Luckily enough for you, precious internees, look no further!
BusinessWeek is one of the country's prime business magazine, ranking with Fortune and Forbes magazines.


Every year, BusinessWeek releases an annual list of the Top 50 Best Places to Intern and I have for YOU the 2008 list! (As 2009 comes to a close, keep your eyes open for a '09 list in early '10!) BusinessWeek ranks these companies according to pay, the percentage of interns who get full-time jobs, student feedback, as well as research. YAHOO!

For you, internees, I will supply you with the COMPLETE list but I want to highlight the top 10.

1. Goldman Sachs - An investment banking company who (in 2007) offered 79% of their interns a full-time job. This rate is not the highest, however, their PAY RATE is what you really should jump up and down about. In 2007 their hourly pay rate was almost $30.




2. PriceWaterHouseCoopers - PWHC is an accounting firm who reached BusinessWeek's number two spot because in 2008, the percentage of interns who received full-time job offers reached an astounding 93%. This rate was 3% higher than in 2007. Accounting anyone?




3. Ernst & Young LLP - This is another accounting firm and although their pay is not as high as Goldman Sachs and PWHC, their intern hiring rate was extremely high. In 2007, it reached 98% and in 2008 it was 90+%. CALLING ALL ACCOUNTING INTERNEES! This is the place to be!


4. Deloitte - Keeping it steady with the accounting firms, this company (in 2007) had a pay rate of approximately $25 an hour with an 85% full-time job offer to interns in both 2007 and 2008.
   
5. KPMG - Again, accounting. Full-time job offer rate? 95% in 2007. AND 95% in 2008.
   
6. JPMorgan - Investment banking. Although their full-time job offer rate was only 80% in 2007 and 70% in 2008, their pay rate is rather high at almost $30 an hour.
7. Microsoft - A technology driven company (as we are all aware) that continues to have a pretty stable full-time job offer rate. In 2007 it was 83% and in 2008, 85%.



8. IBM - Information technology products and services: approximately a 50% full-time job offer rate for both 2007 and 2008. Their pay rate is at $22 per hour.
   
9. General Electric - Good ole' GE and their manufacturing of all sorts of products! GE's full-time job offer rate and pay rate are both significantly lower than previous companies. Though, their job offer rate was 60% in 2007, it was only 30% in 2008. Their pay? $19 per hour.


10. Walt Disney - The happiest place on Earth! Which means you'll be the happiest intern on Earth, working here! At number ten, the media/entertainment company has more rates significantly lower than the other companies. A staggering 17% of interns were offered full time jobs in 2007 and it only raised to 22% in 2008.

Not satisfied with the JUST the top 10 best internships of 2008, according to BusinessWeek? See the complete list with links, percentages and both rankings to compare from '07 and '08.

You can also check out lists of the best places to intern by MSNBC, Fortune/CNN/Money, and, for those of you internees who are looking for a little laugh, CollegeHumor also has a list.

And remember, keep your eyes peeled for the 2009 lists in early 2010!

Good luck and happy interning!
Love, Alice