Most Prestigious Consulting Firms
Consultants across North America rank the companies they consider to be the most prestigious in their industry.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey consultants work in collaborative teams, have opportunities to make meaningful impact, and engage in challenges to stretch their abilities and further their expertise. McKinsey provides a culture that is distinctive and inclusive, focused on a personalized, flexible, dynamic environment that delivers high-performing and sustainable results. The firm is creating conditions for its colleagues to author their own journey and advance based on individual skills and impact.
SCORE 8.910
2024 Ranking
#1
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is the second largest consulting firm by revenue and consistently ranks high in our top consulting firms. The firm’s diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise to organizations, helping them to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Purpose-driven, the firm strives to drive lasting impact for its employees, clients, and society. "You will be challenged... and rewarded," say insiders.
SCORE 8.905
2024 Ranking
#2
Bain & Company
Arguably the most employee-focused of the Big 3 strategy players, Bain is a name that will open doors for the rest of your career. That’s if you’re interested in leaving, of course: The firm invests a lot of time and energy in training and development. Couple that with a glittering client roster and top-of-the-market compensation, and it’s easy to make a case for staying at Bain for the long term.
SCORE 8.876
2024 Ranking
#3
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deloitte is a global provider of audit, tax, risk and financial advisory, and consulting. Services include everything from technology transformation and implementation to corporate strategy; marketing and sales growth solutions (also known as Deloitte Digital); mergers and acquisitions; human capital change management; manufacturing operations including supply chain; financial management; and sustainability, climate, and equity solutions.
SCORE 7.203
2024 Ranking
#4
EY-Parthenon Americas
EY-Parthenon—the strategy consulting arm of professional services giant EY—is one of the largest global strategy consultancies, with more than 700 offices worldwide. By harnessing the infrastructure of its parent organization and its international network of talented professionals, EY-Parthenon offers a near-unparalleled learning experience for jobseekers looking to deepen their expertise while expanding their skillsets.
SCORE 7.099
2024 Ranking
#5
PwC Consulting Solutions/Strategy&
PwC Consulting Services integrates functional knowledge across the globe to help clients address their most challenging business problems. The firm has the opportunities, mentorship, and technology to help take your career to the next level. Becoming a consultant at PwC will allow you to develop deeper expertise in your area of focus and establish yourself as a leader.
SCORE 6.965
2024 Ranking
#6
Booz Allen Hamilton
One of the best-known firms in the government contracting realm, Booz Allen Hamilton has deep expertise on everything from digital transformation to bleeding-edge cybersecurity. With almost 30,000 employees, there is no shortage of opportunities at the company, but it can also be easy to get lost in the shuffle. Those with existing security clearances hold a significant advantage in the hiring process, while the firm is also a destination of choice for current and former members of the military.
SCORE 6.784
2024 Ranking
#7
Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a firm in a hurry at present, rapidly adding headcount through hiring and acquisition to cope with a deluge of work. Consistently recognized throughout the industry as a “Best Place to Work”, the firm promises an “environment where exceptional people can thrive.” A large consultancy whose reach spans five continents, Oliver Wyman strives to provide its people with an entrepreneurial, non-hierarchical culture where talent people work alongside one another on complex, high-visibility client engagements. Go-getters who enjoy early responsibility and a fast-paced, driven environment will do well here.
SCORE 6.771
2024 Ranking
#8
Accenture
Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve performance and create sustainable value for stakeholders. The company fosters a “culture of cultures,” where its people experience a sense of belonging and can be their best professionally and personally. Creating this inclusive workplace means ensuring people feel comfortable engaging in honest, open dialogue about difficult topics—such as bias and inclusion—without judgment or career limitation.
SCORE 6.732
2024 Ranking
#10
EY Consulting Practice NA
Ernst & Young is one of the global Big Four accounting firms. They are best known for providing audit, tax, business risk, technology and security risk services, and human capital services. Through four service lines—assurance, consultancy, strategy, and transactions—they help transform businesses.
SCORE 6.709
2024 Ranking
#9
L.E.K. Consulting
L.E.K. Consulting is a global management consultancy that advises global companies that are leaders in their industries — including major corporations, private equity firms, and emerging entrepreneurial businesses. Headquartered in Boston, the firm’s reach spans five continents, touching almost every major market around the globe. That—coupled with deep industry expertise across a breadth of clients and capabilities—creates a wealth of “big firm”-like opportunities at a relatively midsize firm that can offer its employees a more personalized experience than some of its larger competitors.
SCORE 6.546
2024 Ranking
#11
Kearney
Kearney—one of the original global management consulting firms—has long specialized in operations and supports clients through large transformations. The firm works with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as governmental and nonprofit organizations. A solidly midsize firm with a strong international reputation, Kearney is poised to offer consultants the best of both worlds: the flexibility and opportunities for exposure of a boutique supported by the infrastructure of a much larger firm. The result is a great balance of collaboration and independence—the benefits of scale with the ability to individualize.
SCORE 6.513
2024 Ranking
#12
KPMG LLP (Advisory)
One of the most recognized names in global business, KPMG is a multinational professional services network and one of the Big Four accounting firms. Organized as a network of firms that each bring services to clients, KPMG spans strategy and operations, analytics, business integration, business intelligence, business process management, change management, growth enablement, integrated business planning, organizational design, outsourcing, shared services, talent management, technology enablement, and transformation. On the risk management side, they offer advisory services in financial risk management, forensic, internal audit, risk and compliance, and IT. Mainly, however, they are known for and specialize in auditing, internal audit, accounting, forensic accounting, compliance, corporate recovery, assurance, tax, risk management, and financial advisory services.
SCORE 6.510
2024 Ranking
#13
Lockheed Martin Corporation (IT Consulting)
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that designs and manufactures advanced technology systems and products, and also offers management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistics, and information services. They are mainly focused on domestic and foreign defense and civil markets — with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal government agencies accounting for the majority of its business. The company's activities are organized around four principal areas: aeronautics, electronic systems, information systems and global services (IS&GS), and space systems.
SCORE 6.425
2024 Ranking
#14
IBM Global Business Services
IBM consultants help clients integrate strategy, process, technology and information to increase effectiveness, reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. IBM's services and consulting runs the gamut, from AI and automation to big data to networking and cloud services, and more. They've invested heavily in AI. IBM's portfolio of business-ready tools, applications and solutions are designed to reduce the costs and hurdles of AI adoption while optimizing outcomes and responsible use of AI.
SCORE 6.408
2024 Ranking
#15
Alvarez & Marsal
A&M provides global leadership, problem-solving, and value creation for companies across industries and around the world. The firm’s consultants work as advisers, interim leaders, and partners who tell clients what they need to know, not always what they want to hear. The firm is focused on practical, action-oriented advice for its clients, rather than theoretical.
SCORE 6.302
2024 Ranking
#17
Gartner
Gartner is one of the most trusted and prestigious research and advisory firms in the world. Gartner’s research doesn’t just analyze trends in the industry—it sets those trends—and Gartner employees believe that the world’s most comprehensive collection of technology, data, and tools is what drives their learning and development as professionals. Thriving on the frontlines of innovation, Gartner is a place for the tech savvy and the business oriented.
SCORE 6.109
2024 Ranking
#16
AlixPartners, LLP
With offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, AlixPartners is an international advisory firm that built its reputation through its work in corporate turnaround and restructuring. The firm is often associated with reversing the fortunes of companies in high-impact situations. The ideal hire is someone with around a decade of industry experience, who will be able to hit the ground running and immediately begin impacting a client's business.
SCORE 6.085
2024 Ranking
#18
Northrop Grumman Corporation (IT Consulting)
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace and defense technology company — and also the world’s largest shipbuilder. The company is involved in the design, manufacture, and maintenance of defense systems across all environments, including underwater, on the ground, in the air, in outer space, and online. Most of the firm’s business is with the U.S. federal government, especially the Department of Defense, but it also contracts with state and local governments, foreign governments, and domestic and international commercial clients.
SCORE 6.049
2024 Ranking
#21
Analysis Group
As a hub for economic, litigation, and health care consulting specialists, Analysis Group is a rare creature in the consulting world: a firm that is all but immune to the vagaries of the business cycle. As long as there is a need to estimate economic losses and damages and conduct statistical analyses (among other things), there will be a demand for Analysis Group’s services. As a result, it maintains a very stable employee base and recruits at all levels of educational attainment, from those fresh out of undergrad to Ph.D. holders—provided, of course, that you have the analytical chops to cut it!
SCORE 6.018
2024 Ranking
#33
Cornerstone Research
Cornerstone Research occupies a specialized niche in the consulting world: a firm that provides economic and financial analysis specifically for law firm clients and government agencies. As a Cornerstone Research consultant, you will support expert testimony in commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings. The wide variety of these matters allows consultants to work closely with academic and industry experts in diverse fields. Working at the intersection of the legal and consulting worlds makes Cornerstone Research an exciting, enriching opportunity.
SCORE 5.943
2024 Ranking
#28
Charles River Associates
A storied name in the consulting industry, Charles River Associates provides specialist economic, financial, and management consulting services. Clients engage CRA for their litigation- and regulatory-related cases, as well as for its strategic advice and problem-solving capabilities.
SCORE 5.933
2024 Ranking
#25
Mercer LLC
Mercer is the world's largest human resources consulting firm. A regular in the #1 spot in our rankings of top HR Consulting firms, Mercer is arguably the top global consulting leader in talent, health, retirement, and investments. The firm is a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, a global professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people.
SCORE 5.918
2024 Ranking
#20
NERA Economic Consulting
NERA provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The firm has been advising government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations for over half a century, bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
SCORE 5.902
2024 Ranking
#23
The Bridgespan Group
Formed as a social sector-focused offshoot of Bain, The Bridgespan Group has emerged as the leading provider of services in its field. And with good reason: Top talent from both the consulting and nonprofit worlds beat a path to Bridgespan’s door every year, hoping to join its ranks. While it can’t take them all, it does ensure that the firm continues to go from strength to strength.
SCORE 5.846
2024 Ranking
#19
Roland Berger
As the first consultancy native to Europe to expand internationally, Roland Berger’s identity is deeply entwined with the concept of global community. The firm operates on the idea that businesses must focus on the long play: sustainable economic, environmental, and social change on a global scale instead. Jobseekers who lead with heart and future-forward priorities should seek out a firm working actively to bring meaning to the consulting industry.
SCORE 5.772
2024 Ranking
#22
FTI Consulting, Inc.
FTI Consulting is a global consulting firm that works with organizations facing crises and transformative periods. It primarily helps organizations like multinational corporations, law firms, banks, and private equity firms manage and mitigate financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational, and transactional risks. The firm has been an advisor in some of the most headline-grabbing moments in history, including the Bernie Madoff investigation, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the Bush vs. Gore dispute, the Major League Baseball steroid case, the Ed Sheeran copyright infringement case, and many more.
SCORE 5.739
2024 Ranking
#30
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. They work with clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. The firm offers five core solutions (organizational strategy, assessment and succession, talent acquisition, leadership development, and rewards and benefits) that help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive performance.
SCORE 5.697
2024 Ranking
#27
ZS
ZS is a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond. The firm leverages leading-edge analytics, plus the power of data, science, and products, to help their clients make more intelligent decisions, deliver innovative solutions, and improve outcomes for all.
SCORE 5.616
2024 Ranking
#24
Grant Thornton LLP (Consulting Practice)
Grant Thornton is one of the world's largest professional services networks. Offering independent audit and insurance, tax, and advisory capabilities, the firm helps businesses grow, operate more effectively, manage risk and regulation, and realize stakeholder value. The consulting unit includes a forensics, investigations, and litigations branch that researches economic foul play and advises corporations involved with criminal abuse lawsuits on how to protect their reputation and avoid costly business interruptions.
SCORE 5.516
2024 Ranking
#26
IQVIA
IQVIA is a global consulting firm specializing in clinical research services, management consulting, and healthcare intelligence. The firm works to improve patient outcomes and advance the healthcare industry through innovative solutions and actionable insights.
SCORE 5.511
2024 Ranking
#37
Gallup Consulting
Known for its opinion polls, Gallup brings analytics to its management advisory services. Gallup uses its research into human nature to determine how human behavior and relationships drive organizations. This work informs company growth by helping them develope engaged customers and build engaged workforces of talented employees.
SCORE 5.474
2024 Ranking
#29
Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher is a global pricing, sales and marketing consultancy. Growth is at the center of everything Simon-Kucher does. As a trusted consulting partner, the firm harnesses its people’s specialized, state-of-the-art monetization skills to sustainably grow clients’ profitability. As an employer, the firm invests heavily in growing its people’s skills and providing myriad development opportunities.
SCORE 5.466
2024 Ranking
#31
The Brattle Group
The Brattle group is an economic consulting firm that answers complex economic, regulatory, and financial questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. Built on a foundation of respect, performance, collaboration, and integrity, its consultants bring high-quality expertise to high-profile projects.
SCORE 5.464
2024 Ranking
#40
Bates White Economic Consulting
With a strong reputation in economic and litigation consulting, Bates White is almost immune from the vagaries of the business cycle—a fact that has stood it in good stead over the past few years. Among consultants, the word most often used to describe the firm is “academic”—something that connotes both the type of work it does, and the fact that many of its senior employees are recruited directly out of PhD programs at top colleges. Known for training and development, this is a firm that will appeal to anyone seeking a top-tier economic consulting career.
SCORE 5.447
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Capgemini
Capgemini SE is a multinational consulting company that provides consulting, technology, professional, and outsourcing services. The firm helps companies transform and manage their business through technology—from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms.
SCORE 5.410
2024 Ranking
#32
Guidehouse
Guidehouse provides a wide variety of consulting services including financial management, audit preparation, cyber risk management, operational strategy, and more.
SCORE 5.278
2024 Ranking
#38
Huron
Huron is a global professional services firm. They serve clients in the healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial sectors, as these organizations face significant transformational change and regulatory or economic pressures in dynamic market environments. They help healthcare organizations leverage data and technology to optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, and create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience.
SCORE 5.240
2024 Ranking
#36
Vertex Professional Services
Vertex Professional Services (formerly Raytheon Professional Services) provides learning solutions for commercial, government, and military clients across 15 industries. For example, the U.S. Army requires a single environment that will allow soldiers to train together from anywhere in the world. In their own words, VPS "blends new and emerging technologies—augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and big data—to connect soldiers and allow them to train like never before."
SCORE 5.221
2024 Ranking
#41
ClearView Healthcare Partners
ClearView is a boutique consulting firm in the life sciences field. The firm has five offices in the U.S. and Europe and has experience across a variety of therapeutic areas and technologies. ClearView offers its consulting services at the product, franchise, or corporate level across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics.
SCORE 5.207
2024 Ranking
#35
Putnam
Beyond Putnam's commitment and expertise to revolutionizing life sciences consulting is a determination to “bring out the best in each other.” Putnam’s commitment to development makes it a great choice for anybody looking to acquire practical knowledge of the industry by training alongside an enthusiastic team of like-minded professionals while delivering exceptional value to clients.
SCORE 5.159
2024 Ranking
#44
Aon Hewitt
Aon is global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resource consulting and outsourcing. With a worldwide distribution network, vast base of intellectual capital, and leading technology Aon draws on the best thinking from around the world, then delivers solutions with local expertise.
SCORE 5.136
2024 Ranking
#43
Bainbridge
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Bainbridge provides management consulting services and advises on mergers and acquisitions for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 1000 multinationals all over the globe.
SCORE 5.067
2024 Ranking
#47
Forrester
As the consulting arm of one of the world’s best-known market research outfits, Forrester enjoys instant brand recognition across large swathes of the business world. True to its parent company’s capabilities, Forrester’s consultants help leaders understand, plan for and react to the trends shaping the global business landscape.
SCORE 5.063
2024 Ranking
#34
Arthur D. Little
It may boast the oldest name in consulting, but Arthur D. Little is a firm that feels fresh and vital, with a growing footprint in every major global market. While its work product and client list rival the biggest consulting shops, ADL’s focus on retaining and developing employees for long-term careers sets it apart as an employer and seems set to equip it for success in the years ahead.
SCORE 5.034
2024 Ranking
#45
Slalom Consulting
Slalom Consulting is a global management consultancy focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. The firm has specialists across industries, but also share ideas, methodologies and knowledge across all our industry teams. In their own words, by "drawing from our collective expertise in everything from retail to life sciences, we offer a wide-angle view on unconventional solutions—because the best approach is rarely the most familiar." Insiders say the company places a strong emphasis on work-life balance; it is regularly included in roundups and surveys of best places to work.
SCORE 5.006
2024 Ranking
#39
The Advisory Board Company
The DC-based Advisory Board Company is a membership-based professional services firm that provides best practices research, analysis, executive education and leadership development, software tools and installation support services, primarily to the health care industry.
SCORE 4.883
2024 Ranking
#50
The Cambridge Group, LLC
The Cambridge Group is a boutique strategy consulting firm that helps clients identify profitable new growth opportunities, optimize portfolios of products or services, unearth breakthrough innovation, reinvent categories, enhance brand equity, and optimize pricing. Services include mergers and acquisitions, corporate and business unit strategy, go-to-market activation, digital strategy, marketing strategy, innovation and design and pricing and promotion.
SCORE 4.882
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
The Keystone Group
The Keystone Group provides services related to growth strategy, operational improvement, turnaround, and M&A, across a wide range of industries. Beyond its consulting work, the firm is also committed to giving back in its communities, while also hosting a firm-wide bi-annual service trip to build homes for families in need.
SCORE 4.856
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Cognizant
Cognizant is a global consulting firm, providing business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services. The firm focuses on digital business, digital operations, and digital systems & technology. Key industries include banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing & logistics, retail & consumer goods, information, and media & entertainment.
SCORE 4.852
2024 Ranking
#46
