A new survey reveals the top organizations where millennials want to work, and seven of the top 25 are healthcare companies.
The National Society of High School Scholars polled more than 12,000 high school students, college students and young professionals (ages 15-27) in March 2014 to identify the top 200 preferred companies.
Respondents were asked to rank their preferred companies to work for and selected from a list of 220 companies. That list was created by combining the 2012-2014 editions of "Best Companies to Work For" from Fortune, the 2012-2014 editions of "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" from DiversityInc, selected companies from Fortune's Global 500 and popular write-in responses from prior surveys.
Healthcare and technology remain popular choices among millennials: Of the 25 top-ranked companies, seven are hospitals or health service organizations. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ranked No. 1 for the second year in a row, with Google following in the No. 2 spot.
Other healthcare organizations on the list include:
• Local hospital — No. 5
• Health Care Service Corp. (Chicago) — No. 8
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta — No. 9
• Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) — No. 12
• UnitedHealth Group (Minneapolis) — No. 19
• Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.) — No. 20
• CHG Healthcare Services (Salt Lake City) — No. 27
• Southern Ohio Medical Center (Portsmouth, Ohio) — No. 28
• Meridian Health (Neptune, N.J.) — No. 33
• Scripps Health (San Diego) — No. 36
• Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.) — No. 38
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield — No. 41
• Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, N.J.) — No. 41
• OhioHealth (Columbus, Ohio) — No. 46
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