50 Best Places to Launch a Career

Three accounting firms top BusinessWeek's second annual ranking of the "Best Places to Launch a Career." Deloitte & Touche moved from third in last year's list to first in this year's list, followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young.

BusinessWeek said the accounting firms did well because the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other new accounting rules have greatly increased the demand for accountants.

1. Deloitte & Touche

2. PricewaterhouseCoopers

3. Ernst & Young

4. IBM

5. Google

6. Microsoft

7. Walt Disney

8. Accenture

9. Lockheed Martin

10. Teach for America

11. KPMG

12. General Electric

13. Goldman Sachs

14. Boeing

15. Abbott Labs

16. Merrill Lynch

17. JPMorgan Chase

18. BP America

19. U.S. State Department.

20. General Mills

21. Hyatt

22. Capital One

23. Peace Corps

24. Johnson & Johnson

25. Macy's

26. Enterprise Rent-A-Car

27. Northrop Grumman

28. Raytheon

29. Exelon

30. Prudential

31. Lehman Brothers

32. Eli Lilly

33. Vanguard

34. UPS

35. L'Oreal USA

36. Harrah's Entertainment

37. Travelers

38. Verizon

39. Chubb

40. Intel

41. Wells Fargo

42. UBS

43. Philip Morris

44. St. Jude Medical

45. Marriott International

46. Sprint

47. New York Life Insurance

48. Kohl's

49. Merck

50. CIA