McKinsey Masters the List Again: Named Top Consulting Firm for Fifth Straight Year in the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms

Business Wire, Sept 20, 2005

NEW YORK -- Career publisher Vault Inc. (www.vault.com) has just released the latest edition of its guide to the nation's top management and strategy consulting firms, and McKinsey & Company ranks first overall in prestige.

Over 2100 consulting professionals took Vault's Consulting Survey in Winter 2005. Participants were asked to rate firms on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most prestigious. The highest average score belonged to McKinsey & Company.

In addition to prestige, The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms ranks companies based on numerous quality of life categories, such as compensation, work/life balance and diversity, as well as best in practice area. The guide also features a detailed insider profile of each ranked firm.

The top 10 companies as ranked in the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms are as follows:

Firm                                              Headquarters
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1.  McKinsey & Company                            New York, NY
2.  Boston Consulting Group                       Boston, MA
3.  Bain & Company                                Boston, MA
4.  Booz Allen Hamilton                           McLean, VA
5.  Monitor Group                                 Cambridge, MA
6.  Mercer Management Consulting                  New York, NY
7.  Mercer Oliver Wyman                           New York, NY
8.  Mercer Human Resource Consulting              New York, NY
9.  The Parthenon Group                           Boston, MA
10. Marakon Associates                            New York, NY

The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms is available at bookstores nationwide or by ordering through Vault.com: http://www.vault.com/store/book_preview.jsp?product_id=1566

About Vault Inc.

Vault Inc. is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault offers over 100 nationally distributed books, from the best-selling Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms to the Vault Guide to Schmoozing. Vault is celebrated for its online resource, www.vault.com, which offers employee surveys for more than 3,500 employers, student and alumni surveys for thousands of undergraduate, MBA and law school programs, recruiting services for employers, detailed "inside" information on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries, and the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of expert-moderated message boards for professionals. Vault was founded in 1997 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman.