Top 10 Feeder Schools for 100 Tech Companies

[jsd]

I grew up just a few miles away from Harvey Mudd (and all of the Claremont Colleges), so I'm always excited to see the local representation...

regardless of how they weight these things 

[sanantone]

The article posted is 5 and a half years old. You can find more recent listings, including those adjusted for enrollment numbers.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-...on-valley/

Rank (Total) Institution                                  # Employed    Top Employer
1 Carnegie Mellon University                          1,356            Google
2 University of Southern California                  1,252            Google
3 University of California, Berkeley                  1,212            Google
4 Georgia Institute of Technology                  1,094            Microsoft
5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  877                    Google
6 University of Washington                          876                    Microsoft
7 University of California, San Diego          795                    Google
8 University of Waterloo                                   793                     Google
9 University of California, Los Angeles          704                    Google
10 Stanford University                                  661                     Google

Adjusted for Enrollment:
1 Carnegie Mellon University 1356 Google
2 Columbia University 651 Google
3 Stanford University 661 Google
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 405 Google
5 California Institute of Technology 78 Google
6 Harvey Mudd College 72 Google
7 Georgia Institute of Technology 1094 Microsoft
8 University of Southern California 1252 Google
9 Rice University 235 Google
10 Harvard University 260 Google

This is not the same. This is for 12 companies in Silicon Valley. Not everyone wants to work for those 12 companies or in Silicon Valley.

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This thread is about tech jobs among 100 tech companies not Silicon Valley. Please read. No one reads these days. This forum has a confirmation bias problem.

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I grew up just a few miles away from Harvey Mudd (and all of the Claremont Colleges), so I'm always excited to see the local representation...

regardless of how they weight these things 

This list is fine if you plan to only apply to those 12 companies, but most realistic people would rather have many options. The vast majority of tech graduates will not be able to get into those companies.

[RJ77]

This is not the same. This is for 12 companies in Silicon Valley. Not everyone wants to work for those 12 companies or in Silicon Valley.

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This thread is about tech jobs among 100 tech companies not Silicon Valley. Please read. No one reads these days. This forum has a confirmation bias problem.

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I grew up just a few miles away from Harvey Mudd (and all of the Claremont Colleges), so I'm always excited to see the local representation...

regardless of how they weight these things 

This list is fine if you plan to only apply to those 12 companies, but most realistic people would rather have many options. The vast majority of tech graduates will not be able to get into those companies.

I did read it, but it's a 5+ year old article regarding a field where changes come fast. So I provided a link to something similar with more recent numbers.

[sanantone]

This is not the same. This is for 12 companies in Silicon Valley. Not everyone wants to work for those 12 companies or in Silicon Valley.

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This thread is about tech jobs among 100 tech companies not Silicon Valley. Please read. No one reads these days. This forum has a confirmation bias problem.

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I grew up just a few miles away from Harvey Mudd (and all of the Claremont Colleges), so I'm always excited to see the local representation...

regardless of how they weight these things 

This list is fine if you plan to only apply to those 12 companies, but most realistic people would rather have many options. The vast majority of tech graduates will not be able to get into those companies.

I did read it, but it's a 5+ year old article regarding a field where changes come fast. So I provided a link to something similar with more recent numbers.

On its own, it's fine, but it's so dissimilar from the survey in the OP that it cannot act as a direct comparison. A survey of the top 12 companies in Silicon Valley is very different from a survey of the top 100 tech companies nationwide. Even if the surveys were done within the same year, they would likely result in different lists. It would be great if someone could find a more recent list that is more comprehensive, but it appears that no one, including myself, has found one. 

While technology changes quickly, school size, ranking, and the schools employers target don't change drastically year to year. If an employer is mostly recruiting from a high-ranking university nearby, that likely isn't going to change unless the local university goes downhill.