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Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by drewrv on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:01PM (#14251473)
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

Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by kp1234321 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:53PM (#14252175)
I wonder why ASU. Aren't there geographically closer schools that have better engineering programs?
Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by leoh on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:20PM (#14252518)
Because with 41k undergraduates, it's huge.
Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by davidlee1435 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:42PM (#14252376)
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.

Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by arcanus on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:44PM (#14252388)
USC has several well regarded engineering schools, actually.
Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by davidlee1435 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:47PM (#14252638)
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.
Re:Silicon Valley Hires Mostly from These 10 Universities – ... by olliej on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @11:36PM (#14252839)
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