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Top Feeders to Tech and Silicon Valley (Updated 2025)

Many young coders, programmers, and designers dream of one day being welcomed into an elite Silicon Valley company where the future of the world鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 鈥渢op feeders鈥� 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.

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. In particular, it ranks institutions graduating the most tech workers (at the aforementioned companies ) per 1,000 graduates. This 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, in both tables, we identified the top three employers for each institution.

 

Top Feeders (Total Employed)

Rank (Total)Institution# EmployedTop Employer #1Top Employer #2Top Employer #3
1University of California-Berkeley1,041GoogleAmazonFacebook
2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign598GoogleAmazonMicrosoft
3University of Michigan-Ann Arbor561MicrosoftAmazonGoogle
4Carnegie Mellon University530GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
5University of Washington-Seattle Campus511MicrosoftAmazonGoogle
6University of California-San Diego462GoogleAmazonIntuit
7Stanford University458GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
8Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus436GoogleMicrosoftAmazon
9Cornell University403GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
10University of California-Los Angeles394AmazonGoogleFacebook
11The University of Texas at Austin365MicrosoftGoogleAmazon
12Massachusetts Institute of Technology323GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
13University of Southern California319GoogleAmazonMicrosoft
14Columbia University in the City of New York302GoogleAmazonFacebook
14California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo281AppleAmazonCisco
16Purdue University-Main Campus277MicrosoftAmazonSalesforce
17University of Maryland-College Park219GoogleFacebookAmazon
18New York University200AmazonGoogleFacebook
19Duke University193GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
20University of Pennsylvania186GoogleFacebookAmazon
21Brown University183GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
22Princeton University179GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
23Northeastern University172HubspotIntuitApple
24Harvard University169MicrosoftFacebookGoogle
25Rochester Institute of Technology168IntuitMicrosoftApple
26University of California-Irvine164AmazonGoogleMicrosoft
27University of Virginia-Main Campus142MicrosoftAmazonGoogle
28University of California-Davis137AppleWorkdayAmazon
29San Jose State University136CiscoIBMGoogle
30Ohio State University-Main Campus130AmazonMicrosoftCisco

Top Feeders (Adjusted for Undergraduate Enrollment)

Rank (Total)Institution# EmployedTop Employer #1Top Employer #2Top Employer #3
1Harvey Mudd College84MicrosoftGoogleFacebook
2California Institute of Technology68FacebookGoogleMicrosoft
3Carnegie Mellon University530GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology323GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
5Franklin W Olin College of Engineering23IntuitGoogleMicrosoft
6Stanford University458GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
7Princeton University179GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
8Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus436GoogleMicrosoftAmazon
9Rice University106GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
10University of California-Berkeley1041GoogleAmazonFacebook
11University of California-San Diego462GoogleAmazonIntuit
12Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology39GoogleGrouponAmazon
13Duke University193GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
14University of Washington-Seattle Campus511MicrosoftAmazonGoogle
14University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign598GoogleAmazonMicrosoft
16Brown University183GoogleMicrosoftFacebook
17Rochester Institute of Technology168IntuitMicrosoftApple
18Cornell University403GoogleFacebookMicrosoft
19University of Washington-Tacoma Campus24AmazonTata Consultancy ServicesMicrosoft
20University of Pennsylvania186GoogleFacebookAmazon
21Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute83AmazonMicrosoftCisco
22Pomona College34GoogleMicrosoftAmazon
23Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art12Rubenstein Technology GroupGoogleNvidia
24University of Michigan-Ann Arbor561MicrosoftAmazonGoogle
25Harvard University169MicrosoftFacebookGoogle
26California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo281AppleAmazonCisco
27Morehouse College20GoogleMicrosoftApple
28Yale University104FacebookGoogleMicrosoft
29Dartmouth College87GoogleAmazonMicrosoft
30University of California-Los Angeles394AmazonGoogleFacebook

We hope you found our analysis of the 鈥淭op Feeder鈥� colleges to Tech and Silicon Valley useful. For additional 鈥淭op Feeder鈥� lists, please visit the links below:

For a more complete list of colleges that graduate a high number of students entering the top tech companies, please feel free to check out our data visualization here.

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