MBAs Still Hot for Investment Banking; New Book fromVaultReports.com Unveils First-Ever Prestige...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 1999--Despite the increasing allure of jobs in high tech and consulting, investment banks are still highly desired by today's MBAs, according to a new survey of MBA alumni by VaultReports.com, http://vaultreports.com, the online recruiting company and leading publisher

Included in the just-published, 501-page Vault Reports Guide to the Top 50 MBA Employers, the MBA Employer ranking is based on VaultReports.com's exclusive, detailed surveying of 256 alumni from the nation's leading MBA programs.

Of the 50 companies included in the ranking, eleven are investment banks. Four banks made the top 10: No. 1 Goldman Sachs (dubbed "cream of the street"), No. 6 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (called "white shoe, first class"), No. 9 JP Morgan (noted for its "wonderful diversity"), and No. 10 Merrill Lynch (praised for its "incredible training").

The ranking also includes twelve high tech companies, nine consumer products companies, and seven management consulting firms.

The following are the top 10 Investment Banks, as ranked by VaultReports.com's new survey of MBA alumni:

Investment Bank MBA Employer                         Prestige Score
1.  Goldman Sachs                                         9.03
2.  Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (NYSE:MWD-D)               7.80
3.  JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM)                                  7.53
4.  Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER)                              7.22
5.  Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (NYSE:DLJ)               7.16
6.  Salomon Smith Barney unit of CitiGroup, (NYSE:C)      6.30
7.  Credit Suisse First Boston                            6.24
8.  BancBoston Robertson Stephens (NYSE:BKB)              5.87
9.  Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH)                            5.76
10. Bankers Trust (NYSE:BT)                               5.65

The Vault Reports Guide to the Top 50 MBA Employers can be ordered by visiting http://www.VaultReports.com or calling 1-888-562-VAULT. It is also available in major bookstores.

About VaultReports.com

Rated "4 stars (out of 4)" by Yahoo! Internet Life, VaultReports.com is a leading Internet career-research and recruiting service for job seekers. Based in New York City, VaultReports.com provides free job postings to employers on the Vault Job Board (http://207.87.13.211/resume/post2/postintro.cfm) as well as a proprietary service called VaultMatch (http://www.vaultreports.com/vaultmatch), an online recruiting tool that matches young, professional job seekers with corporate employers and headhunters. Augmenting VaultMatch is VaultReports.com's award-winning collection of Vault Reports Employer Profiles, Vault Reports Industry Guides, and Vault Reports-Houghton Mifflin career books. VaultReports.com also licenses its award-winning career content to leading web sites such as Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), AOL (NYSE:AOL), and Wall Street Journal Interactive. VaultReports.com was founded in 1996 by Samer Hamadeh, and H.S. Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman, recent graduates of Stanford and Wharton..