software engineering and colleges

College Search & Selection
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<p>Is it true that the only colleges that truly stand out in software engineering to employers are MIT, Stanford, and Cal Tech?</p>

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<p>And does it also apply to engineering in general?</p>

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<p>No, they’ll recruit from (a) local schools, and (b) a significantly larger set of out of area schools than the three you list.</p>

<p>For example, a “Silicon Valley” computer company may recruit locally at Berkeley, Stanford, San Jose State, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis, as well as traveling to recruit at MIT, CMU, UIUC, UCLA, USC, Texas, Cal Poly SLO, etc…</p>

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<p>I’m talking employers like Google, Apple, and Microsoft and whether the person gets hired or not. Everybody gets interviews.</p>

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<p>CMU is pretty good as well. Last year, Google hired around 13 students and Microsoft hired around 15 students right out of undergrad.</p>

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<p>Apple, Google, and Microsoft hired 2009-2010 CS graduates from schools other than MIT, Stanford, and Caltech.</p>

<p>Cal Poly SLO: [Graduate</a> Status Survey index - Career Services - Cal Poly](<a href=“http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/gradsurvey/]Graduate”>http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/gradsurvey/)
UC Berkeley: <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Companies do not want to waste time interviewing people who have little chance of being hired.</p>