The Schools Where Apple, Google, and Facebook Get Their Recruits

A look at which colleges provide new recruits to the big tech companies.

A breakdown of what colleges feed the big tech companies. Click to Enlarge Luca Masud + Brittney Everett

Class of 2014: Mazel tov! Now get a job. Time to work your connections at one of those West Coast tech companies, someplace with free food and dinosaurs in the lobby. We poked around LinkedIn, looking at the top five “donating” schools for seven tech firms (roughly 95 percent of employees at the companies in question have accounts) to see if non-Stanford grads have a chance at Silicon Valley firms (they do) and whether Ivy Leagues dominate (they don’t). So start plumbing your alumni network: Those student loans aren’t going to pay themselves.