| Who Hires Them: A Sampling of Economics Majors' First Employers |
Firms reported by respondents to the Economics Department's surveys of its alumni as their first employer after obtaining their bachelor's degree from Santa Clara included the following:
| Aerojet General | Lockheed |
| Allstate | Macy’s |
| Anderson Consulting | Mass Mutual |
| Apple | Merrill Lynch, Austria |
| Applied Technology | National Semiconductor |
| Arthur Anderson | New York Life |
| Bank of America | Next Software |
| Bank of the West | Pacific Western Bank |
| Burroughs | Pacific Telephone |
| Citicorp Savings | Pacific Mutual |
| Del Monte Foods | Prudential Life |
| Ernst & Young | Raytheon Semiconductor |
| Farmers Insurance | Santa Clara HS |
| First Federal Savings | Sears |
| First Franklin Financial Group | Sumitomo Bank |
| Gallo Wines | The Gap |
| Hewlett Packard | Triad Systems |
| Intel | TRW |
| Japan Ministry of Education | Union Oil |
| Japanese government | US Dept of Transportation |
| JC Penney | Wal-Mart |
| Jesuit Volunteer Corp | Wells Fargo |
| John Hancock | Westinghouse |
| Kemper Insurance | |