2025 College Transitions top feeder to Silicon Valley/Tech

[Anonymous]

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech

This is a bit misleading because some of the colleges have much larger CS departments than others. Berkeley and UIUC have very large departments.

But it is good to see UMD and UVA making the list.

1 University of California-Berkeley 1,041 Google Amazon Facebook
2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 598 Google Amazon Microsoft
3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 561 Microsoft Amazon Google
4 Carnegie Mellon University 530 Google Microsoft Facebook
5 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 511 Microsoft Amazon Google
6 University of California-San Diego 462 Google Amazon Intuit
7 Stanford University 458 Google Facebook Microsoft
8 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 436 Google Microsoft Amazon
9 Cornell University 403 Google Facebook Microsoft
10 University of California-Los Angeles 394 Amazon Google Facebook
11 The University of Texas at Austin 365 Microsoft Google Amazon
12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 323 Google Facebook Microsoft
13 University of Southern California 319 Google Amazon Microsoft
14 Columbia University in the City of New York 302 Google Amazon Facebook
14 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 281 Apple Amazon Cisco
16 Purdue University-Main Campus 277 Microsoft Amazon Salesforce
17 University of Maryland-College Park 219 Google Facebook Amazon
18 New York University 200 Amazon Google Facebook
19 Duke University 193 Google Facebook Microsoft
20 University of Pennsylvania 186 Google Facebook Amazon
21 Brown University 183 Google Microsoft Facebook
22 Princeton University 179 Google Microsoft Facebook
23 Northeastern University 172 Hubspot Intuit Apple
24 Harvard University 169 Microsoft Facebook Google
25 Rochester Institute of Technology 168 Intuit Microsoft Apple
26 University of California-Irvine 164 Amazon Google Microsoft
27 University of Virginia-Main Campus 142 Microsoft Amazon Google
28 University of California-Davis 137 Apple Workday Amazon
29 San Jose State University 136 Cisco IBM Google
30 Ohio State University-Main Campus 130 Amazon Microsoft Cisco

[Anonymous]

Absolute numbers are useless.

[Anonymous]

Considering UVA doesn't have that large of a CS department, they are certainly punching way above their weight.

I don't even see VaTech there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Considering UVA doesn't have that large of a CS department, they are certainly punching way above their weight.

+1.

[Anonymous]

This list isn't remotely accurate. I work at one of the top companies on that list and have worked at 3 others in pretty senior engineering roles and the list don't hunt. It's not bad but SJSU should be much higher, CP SLO is likely near the top, Santa Clara is everywhere, UCSC is missing, NC State, Syracuse, etc.

You can get to the valley from anywhere as long as you are good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering UVA doesn't have that large of a CS department, they are certainly punching way above their weight.

+1.

MIT, Harverd, Princeton, Brown, etc. are the ones punching above their weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering UVA doesn't have that large of a CS department, they are certainly punching way above their weight.

+1.

There is a list adjusted for undergraduate enrollment size and UVA is not in the Top 30. It’s still the list of usual suspects 10/12 of the IVY plus universities made it into the top 30 list on a per capita basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This list isn't remotely accurate. I work at one of the top companies on that list and have worked at 3 others in pretty senior engineering roles and the list don't hunt. It's not bad but SJSU should be much higher, CP SLO is likely near the top, Santa Clara is everywhere, UCSC is missing, NC State, Syracuse, etc.

You can get to the valley from anywhere as long as you are good.

lol...Syracuse...okay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This list isn't remotely accurate. I work at one of the top companies on that list and have worked at 3 others in pretty senior engineering roles and the list don't hunt. It's not bad but SJSU should be much higher, CP SLO is likely near the top, Santa Clara is everywhere, UCSC is missing, NC State, Syracuse, etc.

You can get to the valley from anywhere as long as you are good.

lol...Syracuse...okay

Surprising but true. I’ve seen them at every place that I have been. Intel and IBM both used to recruit heavily from there.

[Anonymous]

I get you have to stop somewhere, but this is kind of weird criteria. Cisco is of course a shadow of itself from like 2000...and Docusign and Intuit?

To identify “top feeders” in the tech world, we relied on publicly available data from LinkedIn, a professional networking site featuring profiles of approximately 200 million workers across the United States. Specifically, we identified and analyzed the undergraduate backgrounds of nearly 30,000 entry-level engineering and information technology employees across 15 of the most reputable American tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Salesforce, Nvidia, Adobe, Cisco, LinkedIn, Intuit, HubSpot, Spotify, Netflix, and DocuSign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get you have to stop somewhere, but this is kind of weird criteria. Cisco is of course a shadow of itself from like 2000...and Docusign and Intuit?

To identify “top feeders” in the tech world, we relied on publicly available data from LinkedIn, a professional networking site featuring profiles of approximately 200 million workers across the United States. Specifically, we identified and analyzed the undergraduate backgrounds of nearly 30,000 entry-level engineering and information technology employees across 15 of the most reputable American tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Salesforce, Nvidia, Adobe, Cisco, LinkedIn, Intuit, HubSpot, Spotify, Netflix, and DocuSign.

Maybe, but it's still a heavy weight in the tech industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2023/06/08/the-worlds-largest-technology-companies-in-2023-a-new-leader-emerges/

Oracle #9
Cisco #10
IBM #14

Those are the dinosaur tech companies that are still worth a lot. They may not be the "sexy" new kids on the block companies but they are the tried and true companies that have been around for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This list isn't remotely accurate. I work at one of the top companies on that list and have worked at 3 others in pretty senior engineering roles and the list don't hunt. It's not bad but SJSU should be much higher, CP SLO is likely near the top, Santa Clara is everywhere, UCSC is missing, NC State, Syracuse, etc.

You can get to the valley from anywhere as long as you are good.

lol...Syracuse...okay

Surprising but true. I’ve seen them at every place that I have been. Intel and IBM both used to recruit heavily from there.

IBM HQ is in NY, so that could be why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolute numbers are useless.

Incorrect.

Absolute numbers indicate a strong relationship, strong program, & on-campus recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolute numbers are useless.

Incorrect.

Absolute numbers indicate a strong relationship, strong program, & on-campus recruiting.

I'd rather go to a college that has a history of sending a hundred or two hundred graduates to Silicon Valley than 20. These graduates are the ones who eventually end up hiring the next set of graduates.

[Anonymous]

This is an incredibly useless list. There are 60,000 students at UIUC. There are 50,000 students at UCLA. There are less than a 1000 undergrads at CalTech. MIT has about 4500. Any list of anything that doesn't account for these differences is not useful.