The 20 schools with the most alumni at Google

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If you want to get a job at Google, consider going to school on the West Coast.

Google, which employs more than 57,000 full-timers around the world and is a perennial favorite on lists of the best places to work, recruits only top talent.

From a pool of between 2.5 million and 3.5 million job applications annually, it hires about 4,000 new people each year.

Since landing a top job is typically influenced by which school you attend — considering networks, geography, and prestige are such powerful predictors in a job hunt — we decided to see which schools send the most alumni to Google.

Using LinkedIn’s University Finder tool, which allows you to filter by industry, company, and location to find the perfect college, we found the top 20 schools with the most alumni working at Google.

Unsurprisingly, more than one-third of the colleges are located in California, right down the road from Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

Here’s the full list:

1. Stanford University (2,275 alumni)

2. University of California, Berkeley (2,032 alumni) 

3. Carnegie Mellon University (1,180 alumni)

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1,011 alumni)

5. University of California, Los Angeles (902 alumni)

6. University of Michigan (773 alumni)

7. Cornell University (747 alumni)

8. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (663 alumni)

9. Harvard University (616 alumni)

10. University of California, San Diego (566 alumni)

11. University of California, Davis (490 alumni)

12. University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business (484 alumni)

13. University of Pennsylvania (464 alumni)

14. University of Cambridge (419 alumni)

15. University of California, Santa Barbara (381 alumni)

16. University of Oxford (355 alumni)

17. Harvard Business School (342 alumni)

18. California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo (329 alumni)

19. Purdue University (296 alumni)

20. Tel Aviv University (288 alumni) 

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