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Since Spring Semester is well underway, for many students looking “the real world” in the face, a big choice is inevitably on many minds: Where I am going to work? It’s a complicated decision with factors weighing in such as your major, gpa, desire to relocate, and let’s not forget what you’d actually like to do.

Forbes recently released its top list of options. Here’s the overview:

Say you just graduated from an elite college, near the top of your class. So many options to choose from, all of them good. As an old song goes, the future’s so bright, you’ve gotta wear shades.

But where to start? There are the usual draws of Wall Street and management consultancies. But the public sector, particularly the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, is also getting into the fight for top students, some of whom may find themselves analyzing foreign nation weapons capabilities. And the teaching profession, through the fast-growing Teach for America program, is attracting students from the best schools who aren’t yet sure of their long-term career plans and don’t mind deferring a big paycheck for a couple of years.

Other students, according to Lance Choy, director of Stanford’s Career Development Center, are taking low-paying research jobs at the World Bank to take advantage of networking opportunities.

Forbe’s Best First Jobs for College Grads