(2017-05-08) Silicon Valley Hires Most Graduates From This Collegeand Its Not An Ivy League School

Silicon Valley hires most graduates from this college (and it’s NOT an Ivy League school)

This bent toward state schools — and away from elite universities — demonstrates in part that major technology companies emphasize skills over name recognition

The study also identified the particular skills most in demand with Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. The most sought-after of these in 2017 was knowledge of Python, a programming language often used for back-end of web applications

Cornell University was the only Ivy League institution to crack the list, at No. 15.

The UC Berkeley had more graduates than any U.S. college score a job at one of the top 25 companies in Silicon Valley, according to a recent report from employment data firm HiringSolved. It wasn’t the only public university to make the top 10 list. In fact, only three private schools ranked that high: Stanford University (No. 2), Carnegie Mellon University (No. 3) and University of Southern California (USC) (No. 4).