McKinsey & Company #1 in Consulting for Seventh Straight Year, Says Vault

Business Wire, Sept 13, 2007

Rankings Appear in Latest Edition of the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms

NEW YORK -- Career publisher Vault Inc. (www.Vault.com) has just released its guide to the nation's top consulting employers, and McKinsey & Company ranks first overall in prestige. This is McKinsey's seventh consecutive year in the top spot.

A record 3,640 industry professionals took Vault's Consulting Survey in the spring of 2007. Participants were asked to rate consulting firms on a scale of 1 to 10, based on how prestigious they deem employment at each firm. Vault averaged the prestige scores for each firm and then ranked them in order.

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

1. McKinsey & Company                              New York, NY
2. The Boston Consulting Group                     Boston, MA
3. Bain & Company                                  Boston, MA
4. Booz Allen Hamilton                             McLean, VA
5. Monitor Group                                   Cambridge, MA
6. Oliver Wyman - General Management Consulting    New York, NY
7. Oliver Wyman - Financial Services               New York, NY
8. Deloitte Consulting LLP                         New York, NY
9. Mercer Human Resource Consulting                New York, NY
10. The Parthenon Group                            Boston, MA

In addition to rating peer firms on prestige, respondents were asked to rate their own firms on various quality of life issues such as company culture, compensation, hours and diversity. The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms also features an extensive profile of each ranked firm.

The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms is available at bookstores nationwide or by ordering through Vault.com. To order online, please click here or visit Vault.com.

About Vault

Vault is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault offers over 120 nationally distributed books and is celebrated for its online resource, www.vault.com -- which offers surveys and "insider" information on more than 4,500 employers, 4,000 colleges and universities, and hundreds of industries and occupations -- as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler[TM], the Internet's first-ever network of message boards for professionals with nearly 2,000,000 searchable posts. Vault was founded in 1996 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman.