<p>Does anyone know how well UChicago places its students into Silicon Valley companies/startups? How well represented is Chicago compared to UCB/MIT/Stanford? </p>
<p>Well/not as well. What did you think?</p>
<p>Also, universities don’t place their students into anywhere. Students go out and get themselves hired. The university gives them a brand, and it has an office that can give them advice, and the office also makes itself available to large employers who want to interview large numbers of candidates on campus. (Startups are rarely interviewing on campus, anywhere. You have to go to them if you are interested in working there.)</p>
<p>I know Google and other Big Data companies employ a fair number of Chicago social science and math people. I know a 2013 econ major who is working for a startup in Sunnyvale as a finance person.</p>
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<p>What is your expectation given that uchicago doesn’t have an engineering department? Number of math/cs grads from uchicago seeking jobs in the tech sector is tiny compared to those from UCB/MIT/Stanford but they won’t have any problem finding jobs in Silicon Valley or anywhere else.</p>
<p>The university is really making a push into tech. Check out the Chicago Innovation Exchange. There is also a greater effort to get students internships at Chicago-based startups, for instance at 1871 through HireBrite. </p>