Elon Musk promoted SpaceX and Tesla are again voted as top choices for US Engineering students. A study from Universum shows that a quarter of the students prefer to work for each of the top two companies.
The top 30, include several technology companies, related to Space, Automobile, Defence, Internet and software, Medical Equipment and Pharma, and Governmental agencies.
Figuring out where and who to work for can be just as challenging and exciting. With all these companies coming up with their technologies and innovations, Business Insider provides the list of top companies engineering students in the US are most excited to work for.
Automobile companies that appear in the list are Tesla, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, BMW, and Rolls-Royce.
The survey is based on the percentage of times one organization ranked among their top five choices of ideal employers by engineering students in the USA.
| Current Rank | Company | Industry Type | Previous Rank (2020) | Change in Rank | Percentage Preference* |
| 1 | SpaceX | Space | 2 | Up 1 | 25.93% |
| 2 | Tesla | Automobile | 1 | Down 1 | 23.29% |
| 3 | NASA | Space | 6 | Up 3 | 16.84% |
| 4 | Lockheed Martin | Defence | 3 | Down 1 | 16.17% |
| 5 | Boeing | Aircraft | 5 | No change | 13.82% |
| 6 | New Technology | 4 | Down 2 | 11.83% | |
| 7 | Apple | New Technology | 7 | No change | 10.97% |
| 8 | Microsoft | New Technology | 8 | No change | 8.10% |
| 9 | Northrop Grumman | Aerospace and Defence | 11 | Up 2 | 7.06% |
| 10 | Amazon | New Technology | 10 | No change | 6.37% |
| 11 | The Walt Disney Company | Media and Entertainment | 9 | Down 2 | 6.34 |
| 12 | Raytheon Technologies | Defence | 22 | Up 10 | 6.09% |
| 13 | Department of Defense | Defence | 14 | Up 1 | 6.08% |
| 14 | United States Department of Energy | Energy | 23 | Up 9 | 5.92% |
| 15 | Johnson & Johnson | Pharma and Medical Equipment | 19 | Up 4 | 5.58% |
| 16 | Boston Dynamics | Engineering and Robotics | 17 | Up 1 | 5.20% |
| 17 | General Motors | Automobile | 15 | Down 2 | 5.20% |
| 18 | General Electric | Energy | 13 | Down 5 | 5.20% |
| 19 | Environmental Protection Agency | Environmental Protection | 28 | Up 9 | 4.94% |
| 20 | Ford Motor Company | Automobile | 12 | Down 8 | 4.83% |
| 21 | Toyota | Automobile | 21 | No change | 4.82% |
| 22 | Intel | New Technology | 26 | Up 4 | 4.26% |
| 23 | Pfizer | Pharma | 87 | Up 64 | 4.26% |
| 24 | Medtronic | Medical Equipment | 29 | Down 5 | 4.08% |
| 25 | United States Air Force | Defence | 39 | Up14 | 4.06% |
| 26 | BMW Group | Automobile | 16 | Down 10 | 3.99% |
| 27 | Nike | Sports | 20 | Down 7 | 3.94% |
| 28 | Central Intelligence Agency | Government Agency | 24 | Down 4 | 3.89% |
| 29 | IBM | New Technology | 27 | Down 2 | 3.64% |
| 30 | Rolls-Royce | Automobile | 25 | Down 5 | 3.64% |
