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[quote=Anonymous]Top Feeders to Tech and Silicon Valley

Updated July 2021

Many young coders, programmers, and designers dream of one day being welcomed into an elite Silicon Valley company where the future of the world’s technology is conceived and developed. In addition to being at the heart of American innovation, those who land jobs at prestigious tech firms enjoy high salaries and countless workplace amenities like, for example, Google’s famed free food, climbing walls, and lavish parties. In order to maximize your chances of personally enjoying these types of perks, you will want to consider undergraduate institutions that have direct pipelines to the premier companies within the technology sector.

To identify “top feeders” in the tech world, we relied on publicly available data from LinkedIn, a professional networking site featuring profiles of approximately 170 million workers across the United States. Specifically, we identified and analyzed the undergraduate backgrounds of more than 44,000 entry-level engineering and information technology employees across fifteen of the most reputable American tech companies, including Adobe, AirBnB, Apple, DocuSign, Github, Google, HubSpot, LinkedIn, Lyft, Microsoft, Netflix, NVIDIA, SalesForce, Slack, and Twitter . We then constructed two lists. The first list looks at the raw number of alumni employed by this select group. The second list looks at the top 30 producers when adjusted for undergraduate enrollment, which allows us to highlight schools that may be smaller in size, but that still send a significant number of graduates directly to these prestigious companies.

Finally, we identified two top employers for each institution. The first top employer is the tech company employing the most undergraduate alumni from a particular school. The second top employer is the tech company with the highest share of employees from that undergraduate school. For example, Carnegie Mellon's first top employer is Google, because more CMU (undergraduate) alumni work at Google than at any of the other ten tech companies. Carnegie Mellon's second top employer is LinkedIn because its graduates comprise a larger share of all employees at LinkedIn than they do at any other company in our analysis. If a school's second top employer and first top employer are the same, we indicate the tech company with the second highest share of employees instead. Measuring both total graduates employed and the institutional share of a company’s employees allows us to identify schools offering the best pipelines to smaller yet highly prestigious tech firms, such as LinkedIn and Adobe, which may draw heavily from one particular institution but wouldn't otherwise make an institution's list of top employers because of their relatively small size.
Top Feeder Rankings (by total employed)
Rank (Total)	Institution	# Employed	Top Employer (Total)	Top Employer (Share)
Rank (Total)	Institution	# Employed	Top Employer (Total)	Top Employer (Share)
1	Carnegie Mellon University	1,224	Google	Airbnb
2	University of California, Berkeley	1,003	Google	Lyft
3	University of Southern California	964	Google	LinkedIn
4	Georgia Institute of Technology	894	Microsoft	HubSpot
5	University of Washington	752	Microsoft	DocuSign
6	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	650	Google	Twitter
7	Stanford University	634	Google	Slack
8	University of Waterloo 	610	Google	Slack
9	University of California, San Diego	600	Google	Lyft
10	University of California, Los Angeles	577	Google	LinkedIn
11	University of Michigan	512	Google	Lyft
12	Columbia University	507	Google	Airbnb
13	Cornell University	491	Google	Lyft
14	University of Texas at Austin	457	Google	Apple
15	Northeastern University	381	Microsoft	LinkedIn
16	Purdue University	369	Microsoft	Salesforce
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	360	Google	HubSpot
18	University of Calfornia, Irvine	328	Google	LinkedIn
19	New York University	322	Google	LinkedIn
20	University of Toronto	318	Google	Twitter
21	University of Pennsylvania	306	Google	Slack
22	San Jose State University	300	Google	Apple
23	University of British Columbia	248	Microsoft	Slack
24	Duke University	234	Microsoft	Airbnb
25	University of Maryland	229	Microsoft	Airbnb
26	University of California, Davis	215	Google	Airbnb
27	Brown University	212	Google	Twitter
28	Harvard University	199	Google	Airbnb
29	University of Virginia	192	Microsoft	Google
30	University of Wisconsin, Madison	186	Google	Twitter
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