Study: Big Tech Companies That Hire NJ Talent

On Apr 26, 2022

England-based TonerGiant has analyzed the path from education to employment in a new study to find out which universities are more likely to hire graduates for careers at the world’s biggest and most valuable tech companies. Among the key findings relating to New Jersey institutions of higher education, the study found that:

1. Top 20 states graduates are most likely to get hired at a tech company

Graduates from universities in California are more likely than any other US state to go on to work at a tech company. New Jersey ranks 13th, with 7,758 graduates working in tech companies.

Ranking	State	Number of alumni
1	California	73,617
2	New York	43,162
3	Massachusetts	34,499
4	Illinois	23,767
5	Texas	23,149
6	Washington	22,893
7	Pennsylvania	20,938
8	Georgia	14,572
9	Florida	13,608
10	Indiana	13,167
11	Virginia	11,218
12	Ohio	11,067
13	Maryland	9,815
14	District of Columbia	7,820
15	New Jersey	7,758
16	North Carolina	7,740
17	Colorado	6,739
18	Wisconsin	5,425
19	Utah	4,673
20	Oregon	4,536

2. The world’s biggest tech companies are most likely to hire Princeton University graduates

Graduates from Princeton University are more likely than those of any other university in New Jersey to work at one of the world’s biggest tech companies. We counted 2,267 graduates on LinkedIn now working at the world’s most valuable tech companies.

Ranking	University	Number of alumni
1	Princeton University	2,267
2	New Jersey Institute of Technology	1,627
3	Stevens Institute of Technology	1,427
4	Rutgers University	969
5	Montclair State University	671
6	Rowan University	440
7	Seton Hall University	357

3. Amazon hires more alumni from New Jersey universities than any other major tech company

• According to our study, Amazon has hired more graduates from the NJ universities in our analysis than any other giant tech company. In total, 1,703 graduates from universities in New Jersey are working there.
• Google comes in second place – 1,254 graduates from universities in New Jersey work there. You can find the breakdown of the top 5 universities each major tech company most likely hires from here.

Ranking	Company	Number of alumni
1	Amazon	1,703
2	Google	1,254
3	IBM	911
4	Microsoft	670
5	Apple	616
6	Accenture	608
7	Oracle	346
8	Facebook	291
9	Cisco	278
10	Intel Corporation	232

Amazon
University	Number of alumni
Rutgers University	354
New Jersey Institute of Technology	311
Princeton University	265
Stevens Institute of Technology	243
Montclair State University	230

Google
University	Number of alumni
Princeton University	718
Stevens Institute of Technology	215
New Jersey Institute of Technology	156
Rutgers University	63
Montclair State University	41

Using LinkedIn, TonerGiant discovered where more than 500,000 employees of the world’s most valuable tech companies studied to find out which companies are more likely to hire from certain universities. The analysis looked at 26 of the biggest tech companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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