2025 College Transitions top feeder to Silicon Valley/Tech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

But most of Caltech and MIT students are STEM grads, whereas most from UCLA are not. You won't be finding too many business grads from Caltech but you will from big state schools. Those tech giants hire more than just tech grads, however, at colleges like Caltech, most of the hires will be technical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Cisco market cap is less today than in 2000…not to mention what happened to IBM.

Oracle has significantly outperformed those two.

I guess Cisco employs 90,000 worldwide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Cisco market cap is less today than in 2000…not to mention what happened to IBM.

Oracle has significantly outperformed those two.

I guess Cisco employs 90,000 worldwide.

but that list is from 2023. They are not as big as they once used to be, but they are still a top 20 global tech company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolute numbers are useless.

+1 one would have thought this would be obvious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Cisco market cap is less today than in 2000…not to mention what happened to IBM.

Oracle has significantly outperformed those two.

I guess Cisco employs 90,000 worldwide.

but that list is from 2023. They are not as big as they once used to be, but they are still a top 20 global tech company.

They don’t include private companies…Open AI is worth over $300BN.

Also, rapidly growing companies like Palantir (same market cap as Cisco) aren’t represented.

Also, Tesla should be on the list (regardless of what you think of Elon).

Finally, LinkedIn is now Microsoft.

[Anonymous]

UVA listed, but not Virginia Tech.

[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.

Grew up in Menlo Park--do people call Silicon Valley "the valley" now?? In my day "the valley" was San Fernando...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA listed, but not Virginia Tech.

UMD > UVA

[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.

Grew up in Menlo Park--do people call Silicon Valley "the valley" now?? In my day "the valley" was San Fernando...

haha.. I grew up in Socal, and yea, the valley is SF valley, and SV is SV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Uva,numbe5s are grossly underwhelming for a school that considers itself as a peer to Michigan and UCLA etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolute numbers are useless.

+1 one would have thought this would be obvious

We have another ardent slac booster here.

You guys are beginning to sound like S Korea or Taiwan always insisting that gross domestic produc number is irrelevant and to look only at per capita income.

Don't be silly.

[Anonymous]

College Transitions claims that they adjust for undergraduate population size. So in that respect it is odd that Virginia Tech did not make the list.

[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.

Grew up in Menlo Park--do people call Silicon Valley "the valley" now?? In my day "the valley" was San Fernando...

Like totally!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College Transitions claims that they adjust for undergraduate population size. So in that respect it is odd that Virginia Tech did not make the list.

Is this sarcasm? Maybe it's because those top SV tech companies don't hire that much from VT. It's a solid school for around here, but it doesn't have the national, even global reputation in CS. And yes, UMD does have a global reputation in CS.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2025/subject-ranking/computer-science?page=2#!/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolute numbers are useless.

+1 one would have thought this would be obvious

We have another ardent slac booster here.

You guys are beginning to sound like S Korea or Taiwan always insisting that gross domestic produc number is irrelevant and to look only at per capita income.

Don't be silly.

Well, I just looked up the top feeders to SV by size of enrollment. Here's your real list.

Harvey Mudd
CalTech
CMU
MIT
Olin
Stanford
Princeton
Georgia Tech
Rice
Berkeley