The 20 schools with the most alumni at Google

Bloomberg

If you want to get a job at Google, consider going to school on the West Coast.

Google, which employs more than 57,000 full-timers around the world and is a perennial favorite on lists of the best places to work, recruits only top talent.

From a pool of between 2.5million and 3.5 million job applications annually, it hires about 4,000 new people each year.

Since landing a top job is typically influenced by which school you attend — considering networks, geography, and prestige are such powerful predictors in a job hunt— we decided to see which schools send the most alumni to Google using data from LinkedIn.

Unsurprisingly, more than one-third of the colleges are located in California, right down the road from Google's Silicon Valley headquarters.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post relied on data from LinkedIn's University Finder tool that was discovered to be incomplete after posting. We've updated the article to reflect new data pulled by LinkedIn.

Here's the full list:

1. Stanford University

2. University of California, Berkeley

3. Carnegie Mellon University

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5. University of California, Los Angeles

6. University of Michigan

7. Cornell University

8. University of Washington

9. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

10. Harvard University

11. San Jose State University

12. University of Waterloo

13. Tsinghua University

14. University of California, San Diego

15. University of Southern California

16. The University of Texas at Austin

17. New York University

18. University of California, Davis

19. Georgia Institute of Technology

20. University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School