The Top Colleges Where Facebook Gets Their Workers

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Just up and moving to Silicon Valley won’t necessarily guarantee you’ll get a job at a company like Facebook.

It also might be a good idea to have a diploma from an esteemed university as well as majoring in something that will make you an attractive candidate, such as software engineering.

Entry level jobs in this field, at least at Facebook, pay around $106,000 annually.

However, even though Facebook is a sizable company with 7,185 employees, you’re likely competing with 100 times that number for a single position so be ready to put your best foot forward.

As for the top 20 schools attended by Facebook’s staff, here’s the list as found on LinkedIn:

1. Stanford University (289 alumni)
2. University of California, Berkeley (262 alumni)
3. The University of Texas at Austin (125 alumni)
4. The University of Waterloo (122 alumni)
5. Carnegie Mellon University (119 alumni)
6. University of Washington (98 alumni)
7. Tsinghua University (97 alumni)
8. University of California, Los Angeles  (97 alumni)
9. San Jose State University (94 alumni)
10. University of Michigan (83 alumni)
11. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (81 alumni)
12. Harvard University (79 alumni)
13. Cornell University (77 alumni)
14. University of California, Davis (69 alumni)
15. University of California, San Diego (63 alumni)
16. University of Southern California (63 alumni)
17. Santa Clara University (58 alumni)
18. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (56 alumni)
19. University of Wisconsin, Madison (49 alumni)
20. University of California, Santa Barbara (213 alumni)

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