The Best Places to Intern in 2016

Summary: Look through the list of top 50 companies to intern for next year so that you can start planning ahead and applying for an internship with one of these companies.

Internships are the building blocks to a powerful resume. The experience gained from a summer internship or other internship is invaluable. With that being said, acquiring a position with one of the most prestigious companies will make for a great experience that may even be paid.

Vault performed a survey, asking 5,800 current and former interns at over 100 companies. Based on a series of answers, they were able to rank companies to find the top 50 to intern for in 2016 on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 best dream job and 1 being worst job.

Here are the top 50:

1. Google Inc. scored 9.486
2. APPLE INC. scored 9.069
3. Goldman Sachs & Co. scored 8.731
4. Facebook, Inc. scored 8.690
5. J.P. Morgan scored 8.368
6. Microsoft Corporation scored 8.333
7. Tesla Motors, Inc. scored 8.287
8. Morgan Stanley scored 8.063
9. The Walt Disney Company scored 7.858
10. Twitter, Inc. scored 7.835
11. McKinsey & Company scored 7.806
12. Nike, Inc. scored 7.799
13. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. scored 7.792
14. The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. scored 7.787
15. PwC LLP scored 7.723
16. Amazon.com, Inc. scored 7.677
17. International Business Machines Corporation scored 7.539
18. Bain & Company scored 7.509
19. Deloitte LLP scored 7.503
20. ESPN, INC. scored 7.433
21. Intel Corporation scored 7.380
22. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC scored 7.362
23. Ernst & Young LLP scored 7.279
24. Bloomberg L.P. scored 7.260
25. The Coca-Cola Company scored 7.122
26. Tie: BMW of North America, LLC and KPMG LLP scored 7.098
27. The Procter & Gamble Company scored 7.075
28. General Electric Company scored 7.016
29. HP Inc. scored 6.978
30. BlackRock scored 6.966
31. Oracle Corporation scored 6.963
32. PepsiCo, Inc. scored 6.883
33. Exxon Mobil Corporation scored 6.754
34. Johnson & Johnson scored 6.749
35. American Express scored 6.706
36. Starbucks Corporation scored 6.696
37. Ford Motor Company scored 6.646
38. Sony Corporation of America scored 6.599
39. Samsung Engineering America Incorporated scored 6.536
40. Dell Inc. scored 6.450
41. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. scored 6.441
42. Cisco Systems, Inc. scored 6.430
43. Adobe Systems Incorporated scored 6.219
44. L’Oreal USA, INC. scored 6.212
45. BP Corporation North America Inc. scored 6.185
46. Southwest Airlines Co. scored 6.121
47. Whole Foods Market, Inc. scored 6.118
48. Chevron Corporation scored 6.093
49. Siemens Corporation scored 6.033
50. Accenture scored 6.022

Source: http://www.vault.com/internship-rankings/most-prestigious-companies-to-intern-for?pg=2

Photo: forbes.com