Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – None Are Ivy League

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Here's the list:

10 Arizona State University

9: University of California, San Diego

8: San Jose State University

7: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

6: Georgia Institute of Technology

5: The University of Texas at Austin

4: University of Southern California

3: Carnegie Mellon

2: Stanford University

1: University of California, Berkeley

I wonder why ASU. Aren't there geographically closer schools that have better engineering programs?

Because with 41k undergraduates, it's huge.

From the study that they linked (https://hiringsolved.com/blog/hiringsolved-identifies-top-sk...):

> HiringSolved also compiled the leading alma maters based on volume (of all levels of hires) made by the top 25 Silicon Valley companies in the past year.

Most of the schools listed are big public schools, so it makes sense that more students from those schools are hired than students from Ivy League schools. Harvard has 22k students- for reference, UT Austin has 50k, more than twice that.

Stanford and CMU are no surprise- they're CS powerhouses. The one that takes me by most surprise is USC, a school I commonly associated with the entertainment business rather than tech.

USC has several well regarded engineering schools, actually.

And I don't doubt you; I'm not trying to discredit USC at all. I'm just saying that before reading this article, I wouldn't have guessed that USC would go on the list.

It doesn't seem like they even remotely controlled for different graduation/student sizes so of course the big public universities beat Ivy League.

Not trying to denigrate those universities more just an observation of terrible link bait reporting.

That said I wouldnt expect Harvard/Yale etc to be high up because their big cachet is business and law

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