Fortune magazine and glassdoor.com both rank which tech firms are the best to work for in the US, and there are eight companies that appear in the top 20 on both lists. Below are lists of where the leadership teams for these companies, as listed on each company’s website, did their undergraduate studies. 58 of 72 (81%) attended non-MC25 colleges. (Note: Click on the word ‘Lists’ in the menu for important notes for this section.)
salesforce.com
U Southern California (CEO)
Harvard
Brigham Young U
Stanford
Golden Gate University
Virginia Tech
Middlebury College
Wellesley College
U California Berkeley (2)
Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
Augsburg College
U Colorado Boulder
California State U–Chico
HubSpot
U Vermont (CEO)
U California Berkeley
Cornell
Tufts
U Colorado Boulder
Brown
U Alabama
Marshall U
Bates College
Howard U
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology
SAP America
U Illinois (president)
Mount St. Mary’s U
U Vermont
Appalachian State U
Northern Illinois University
Union College
Adobe
Cornell
Villanova
U Washington
Lehigh U
Fordham U
Intuit
U Central Florida (CEO)
U Southern California
Tufts U
California State U Chico
US Air Force Academy
Marshall U
U Washington
U Virginia
Washington U in St. Louis
U California Davis
Michigan State
Nvidia
Oregon State U (CEO)
U Arizona
Kansas State U
U Florida
U Minnesota
U California Davis
Fast Enterprises
U San Francisco
Columbia
Montana State
Kansas State U
North Island College
U Montana
Ultimate Software
Hamilton College (CEO)
U Pennsylvania
US Naval Academy
U Florida
U Connecticut
LeMoyne College (2)
Harvard (President)
U Massachusetts Lowell
Notre Dame
Hamilton College
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sources: corporate websites and linkedin.com
(Last updated 4/17/2021)