Where the Alumni of Top 25 Universities Live and Work

College Search & Lists
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For those that don’t know, LinkedIn.com has a great function that allows you to see where alumni work and live, and even what industry they work in.

So for easy reference, I complied a list of the top 3 employers, locations and industries for the Top 25 Universities.

  1. Princeton
    Location: NYC, San Francisco and DC
    Employers: Google, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft
    Industries: Education, Research and Entrepreneurship

  2. Harvard
    Location: Boston, NYC and San Francisco
    Employers: Google, Harvard Medical School and McKinsey & Company
    Industries: Education, Research and Entrepreneurship

  3. Yale
    Location: NYC, San Francisco and Boston
    Employers: Yale Medical School, Google and Goldman Sachs
    Industries: Education, Research and Media & Communication

  4. Columbia
    Location: NYC, San Francisco and DC
    Employers: Columbia Medical Center, Google and Citi
    Industries: Education, Research and Media & Communication

  5. Stanford
    Location: San Francisco, NYC and LA
    Employers: Google, Apple and Oracle
    Industries: Engineering, Research and Education

  6. UChicago
    Location: Chicago, NYC and San Francisco
    Employers: Chicago Medicine, Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University
    Industries: Education, Research and Finance

  7. MIT
    Location: Boston, San Francisco and NYC
    Employers: Google, IBM and Apple
    Industries: Engineering, Research and Education

  8. Duke
    Location: Raleigh-Durham, NYC and DC
    Employers: Duke Medical Center, Google and IBM
    Industries: Research, Education and Healthcare services

  9. UPenn
    Location: Philly, NYC and DC
    Employers: UPenn Medicine, Children’s Hospital and Google
    Industries: Education, Research and Healthcare services

  10. CalTech
    Location: LA, San Francisco and NYC
    Employers: Google, Northrop Grumman and Boeing
    Industries: Engineering, Research and Education

  11. Johns Hopkins
    Location: DC, Baltimore and NYC
    Employers: Northrop Grumman, JHU Hospital and JHU Engineering
    Industries: Research, Education and Engineering

  12. Dartmouth
    Location: Boston, NYC and San Francisco
    Employers: Google, Goldman Sachs and Darmouth-Hitchock
    Industries: Education, Research and Entrepreneurship

  13. Northwestern
    Location: Chicago, NYC and San Francisco

    Employers: NU Medicine, Deloitte and Accenture
    Industries: Education, Media & Communication, Research

  14. Brown
    Location: NYC, Providence and Boston

    Employers: Google, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs
    Industries: Education, Research and Media & Communication

  15. Cornell
    Location: NYC, Upstate NY and San Francisco
    Employers: Google, IBM and Microsoft
    Industries: Research, Education and Engineering

  16. Vanderbilt
    Location: Nashville, NYC and Atlanta
    Employers: Vanderbilt Medical Center, Deloitte and Nashville Public Schools
    Industries: Education, Research and Healthcare services

  17. WUSTL
    Location: St Louis, NYC and Chicago
    Employers: Boeing, WashU Medicine and Monsanto
    Industries: Education, Research and Engineering

  18. Rice
    Location: Houston, San Francisco and Austin
    Employers: Shell, Baylor Medicine, BP
    Industries: Research, Engineering and Education

  19. Notre Dame
    Location: Chicago, NYC and South Bend
    Employers: Deloitte, PwC and EY
    Industries: Education, Finance and Research

  20. Berkeley
    Location: San Francisco, LA and NYC
    Employers: Google, Kaiser and UCSF
    Industries: Research, Education and Engineering

  21. Emory
    Location: Atlanta, NYC and DC
    Employers: CDC, Emory Medicine and Emory Healthcare
    Industries: Healthcare services, Research and Education

  22. Georgetown
    Location: DC, NYC and San Francisco
    Employers: US Dept of State, Deloitte and Booz Allen
    Industries: Research, Media & Communication, and Education

  23. Carnegie Mellon
    Location: Pittsburgh, San Francisco and NYC
    Employers: Google, Microsoft and Oracle
    Industries: Research, Media & Communication, and Education

  24. USC
    Location: LA, San Francisco and Orange County
    Employers: Boeing, Kaiser and Northop Grumman
    Industries: Engineering, Education and Media & Communication

  25. UCLA
    Location: LA, San Francisco and Orange County
    Employers: LA Public Schools, UCLA Health and Kaiser
    Industries: Education, Entrepreneurship and Media & Communication

2

The apples don’t fall far from the trees, do they?

3

…the exception being San Francisco. I don’t know how people find a place to live out here.

4

Get in rent control, stay a long time, and save up.

5

What percentage of each university’s graduating class go to work at the “top three” employers?

For example, less than 1% of the living Stanford grads work at Google. That means 99% work somewhere else.

6

I doubt many are in San Francisco proper.

7

So what proportion of the alumni of the top 25 universities don’t have LinkedIn accounts?

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SF or nearby Silicon Valley.

9

Since far from every alumnus has a Linkedin account, drawing any conclusions about this data is about as useful as applying broad generalizations to alumni from the few who have Ashley Madison accounts.

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@GMTplus7, I daresay the vast majority of young alums have LinkedIn accounts (as well as some older alums in industry).

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I’ll go further: most professionals have an account. I signed up way back in 2006!