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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Companies for “top feeders to tech” seem a bit more arm wavey than some of the others. At least for the engineering list there’s a claim the companies were most pursued by the applicants (per some survey).  For tech it’s just this college counseling site’s take on “reputable” tech companies.  Results will look different depending on destinations.

Interesting lists, though.  [/quote]

True in the tech world there are many startups that are highly desirable, but let's be honest, the kids at those startups are the same kids at the top of these tech lists anyways[/quote]

Some would be, but certainly not all, and the order would be different.

But trying to capture start ups would be methodologically more challenging than trying to use, say, the 12 largest software companies.  The original list doesn’t attempt even that.  It strikes me as more arbitrary than the destinations chosen for the other lists.  [/quote]

The closest I can see online is this: https://news.crunchbase.com/business/stanford-harvard-mit-funded-startup-founders/. However, it isn't per capita adjusted for undergraduate enrollment.

[b]The top schools where startup founders went to college[/b]:

1. Stanford
2. MIT
3. Harvard
4. Berkeley
5. Columbia
6. Cornell
7. Duke
7. USC
9. Carnegie Mellon
9. Penn
9. UT Austin
9. Yale
13. Michigan
14. UIUC
15. UCLA
16. NYU
17. Northwestern
18. Princeton
19. Brown
19. Georgia Tech

If this were per capita, MIT, Columbia, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Yale, Princeton, and Brown go up, while Berkeley, Cornell, USC, UT Austin, Michigan, UIUC, UCLA, NYU, and Georgia Tech go down[/quote]

Staying in the DMV isn't a bad idea on the tech/founder side either, especially looking at the future growth here. Maryland in particular has invested a lot into CS recently. Sergey Brin (Google) and Brendan Iribe (Oculus, sold to FB) are impressive founder headliners too.

Amazon and Google, among others, have also invested in growth in this area and are committed to increasing hiring here so local internship and job opportunities should grow (though not quite like Stanford where you can walk to Palantir or Amazon buildings in Palo Alto and go one train stop for Google). [/quote]

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