Intriguing list…though the net is likely larger than this, they do have their favorites…
This looks like it is pure volume, not adjusted for school size. So smaller schools that place a fair number of students there would not show up (eg, Mudd).
Other articles indicate that Google, like other large companies, recruits widely.
But there is likely to be greater interest among students at geographically closer schools, and top-end students (more common at more selective schools) are probably more likely to pass the interview tests.
this like poetsandquants is extremely lazy research and stalkerish. it’s also flawed. Several of those profiles have graduate degrees from Stanford and Berkeley or MIT. Were they therefore really “recruited” out of UCSD or UCSB?
Given I know Google HR leads, the answer is no.
I wish people would stop obsessing about working at Google. Everyone I personally know who worked there got tired of it and left. There are thousands of other tech companies in the SF Bay Area, many of which would be far more interesting to prospective employees.
Years ago I worked at Sun Microsystems when it was the hot company in Silicon Valley that everyone wanted to work for. From the inside, there was nothing special about it other than it was incredibly dorky and pretentious.
Google headquarters are in Mountain View, there are large offices in NY, London, Chicago, LA, Cambridge (MA), TEl Aviv, Pittsburg, and Ann Arbor - which correlate pretty closely with the schools listed.
For some perspective, here are the number of CS Graduates per school BA/MA/Phd (note that math, physics and EE majors also get hired)
Stanford 211/170/27
UCB 191/89/44
CMU 180/201/49
MIT 241/132/31
UCLA 135/85/40
Mich 314/176/6
Cornell 151/163/12
UIUC 238/127/62
Harvard 88/44/11 130/28/21 Math
UCSD 235/72/19
Cal Poly 74/19/0
UCSB 92/28/13
Purdue 337/77/22
Contrast that with…
Olin 17 EE’s
H Mudd 35/0/0
Cal Tech 35/5/7
Tufts 43/18/4
Dartmouth 43/22/3
U Roch 43/13/13
Rice 47/27/13
Brown 80/50/9
UMass 102/42/19
UIUC graduates nearly twice as many Phd’s as Mudd graduates BA’s…
Michigan and Purdue graduate nearly 10x the BA’s as Mudd…
The number shows Purdue is a great school despite it low ranking in the US news. But it was high for engineering. When my kid applied to colleges 2 years ago, I looked at top engineering school rankings and NOT top US News rankings.
While not everybody in tech aspiring to work for Google but it’s still an accomplishment to be hired there.
^^^^^Where are all of the USC graduates? I thought the “Trojan Network” was one of the strongest in the country? Google does have its HQ in California correct? Oh that’s right I almost forgot; Larry Page is a Michigan grad. 
USC is stronger in business and film than in engineering and computer science.But Michigan is in the top 10 for engineering.
Looks like USC grads prefer going to local aerospace and management consulting firms rather than Google. The aerospace connection seems very reasonable. When I was going to grad school at USC, at least half the students in my IE program were being sent through by aerospace companies, including myself.
There’s always been a very strong relationship between USC and aerospace, and that includes a direct hiring pipeline between the two.
@Mastodon, UIUC doesn’t graduate twice as many CS PhDs as Mudd does CS majors, however. UMich and PU also don’t graduate 10 times as many CS majors as Mudd. Look, Mudd is a fine school and their grads do well, but counting UMich education majors and UIUC communications PhDs in your ratio doesn’t make a lot of sense when Mudd has zero students majoring in those areas.
It’s why I like the LinkedIn software rankings: https://■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/edu/rankings/us/undergraduate-software-engineering
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As well as the Payscale CS ranking: http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-by-majors/computer-science
Simba,I agree there lots of aerospace from USC.
The payscale salary is not reliable Information anyway because it needs to take into account of location pay at the 10 year salary. For example, a graduate from UCSB who works 10 year at Silicon Valley or SF will have higher salary then a UCSD who works 10 year near San Diego. Typical 20% salary increase from San Diego to Silicon Valley. This was told to me by a friend who moved from San Diego to Silicon Valley.
Post #3, maybe you don’t really know anybody from Google HR as you claimed, because my daughter knows several friends who were hired directly out of UCSD. None of them have a graduate degree yet. They are all previously tutors and that’s why. Google contacts undergraduate directly for interview even as she has not started her junior year. However, you need high GPA, these people she knows that are working at Google have top 4-5% GPA at UCSD.
@PurpleTitan I am curious what data source you are using. Here is the source I used:
http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=michigan&s=all&pg=2&id=170976#programs
Note that of the Michigan BS’s 66 are in an interdisciplinary CS major called “informatics”.
http://www.informatics.umich.edu/informatics/about
A cross check of the Michigan CS with the ASEE database yields a similar number for pure CS:
50 CS in Liberal Arts
211 CS in Engineering
Not counted were:
78 Computer Engineers
115 Electrical Engineers
http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6621/screen/21?school_name=University+of+Michigan
A cross check the UIUC Phd Data with the ASEE database also yields a similar number:
51 Male Phds
11 Female Phds
Dr.Google doubtful.
It’s not a major target by any means - although presentations do happen on campus. Google primarily sources from Stanford and Berkeley from the bay and UCLA from the south. I graduated from Stanford, and have many many friends at google in senior positions. Perhaps you should ask them.
I did a search on LinkedIn University Finder with these 3 filters a) Google b) US and c) Computer Science. The results is as follows:
- Stanford (754)
- UCB (685)
- CMU (563)
- MIT (496)
- UIUC (334)
- Cornell (299)
- UCLA (266)
- Tsinghua (264)
- GTECH (255)
- USC (254)
- UCSD (248)
- UDub (246)
- UTA (192)
- Princeton (175)
- Columbia (173)
- Peking (169)
- Waterloo (163)
- Harvard (162)
- UMich (162)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong (145)
If one adds the filter d) Computer Eng. to the mix, the above list does not change much.
^the data needs to be filtered to take into account undergrad colleges only. If a purdue grad went to stanford for a master’s, which school really landed them at Google?
Blah, maybe your friends are lying to you. Btw, my ex-boss is a VP at Google and my friend is a Director at Google. Who are going to believe?
Check out LinkedIn, stop arguing nonsense.