Best Consulting Firms in Each Practice Area
Consultants across the nation rate the top firms in their practice areas.
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2025 Best Consulting Firms for Public Sector Consulting
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.
39.87% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#1
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.
35.84% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#2
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.
28.46% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#3
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.
19.33% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#4
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.
18.93% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#5
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.
14.50% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#7
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.
13.42% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#8
Guidehouse
Guidehouse provides a wide variety of consulting services including financial management, audit preparation, cyber risk management, operational strategy, and more.
13.15% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#6
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.
10.74% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#9
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.
8.05% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#10
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.
6.98% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#11
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.
4.43% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#16
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.
3.09% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#13
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.
3.09% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#14
Abt Associates Inc.
Since its founding in 1965, Abt Associates has grown into one of the world's largest for-profit government and business research and consulting firms, largely by applying social sciences systems and analysis methods to governmental and industrial problems.
2.68% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#18
ICF International, Inc.
ICF International is a global consulting and technology services company. The firm provides strategic planning, management, marketing, and analytics products and services to both government organizations and businesses. Consultants who work there are business analysts, policy specialists, technologists, researchers, digital strategists, social scientists, and creatives.
2.68% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#15
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.
2.68% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#18
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.
2.42% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#17
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.
2.28% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#20
Kaiser Associates
Kaiser Associates is a global growth consulting firm that translates original insights into strategy for ambitious organizations around the world. Since its founding in 1981, the firm has grown substantially while continuing to stay true to its founding ethos of “fact-based” strategy. The firm’s global client portfolio, collegial community, and wide-ranging opportunities make Kaiser Associates a great place to work.
2.28% of Votes
2024 Ranking
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Washington Business Dynamics
Washington Business Dynamics (WBD) is a management consulting firm that was founded on a single idea—that a collaborative team with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion change can make an impact in public service. Serving both the public and private sectors, along with international clients, it uses time-tested practices and a logical approach to help its clients solve problems and position themselves for mission success.
2.28% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked