Top Employers

Most college career services offices employ one or more employer relations specialists who are tasked with forging partnerships with local, regional, and national/multinational corporations as well as top employers in the non-profit and government sectors. In examining this table, you’ll see which schools serve as a pipeline to many of the world’s premier employers. This data can be helpful in discerning which companies recruit large numbers of current undergraduates from a given prospective college. It can also lend insight into what type of alumni connections and internship/externships might be more available as you begin the career exploration phase. Additionally, you’ll get a sense of schools that excel at sending students into top firms in a particular field (e.g. finance, tech, engineering, etc.).

Toward these aims, the following list reveals the top five employers (by sheer volume) of alumni from hundreds of the top universities in the United States.

*Data collected from LinkedIn in December 2020