The top 10 universities in London where you are most likely to get hired by a tech giant

Key findings:
- UAL alumni are most likely to get hired by Amazon (226), Accenture (292), and Apple (188).
- Instagram (23 alumni) and Netflix (55 alumni) also hire more UAL alumni than any other London university.
- Universities in London have the most alumni working at tech giants with over 27k alumni from London universities.
- London universities make up 60% of the top 10 list of UK universities that the world’s biggest tech companies hire from.
The University of the Arts London ranked in the top 10 London universities to get hired by a tech giant with 1,416 of their alumni now working for one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Ranking | University | Number of Alumni |
1 | The London School of Economics and Political Science | 3,378 |
2 | University College London | 2,454 |
3 | London Business School | 2,403 |
4 | Imperial College London | 2,358 |
5 | King’s College London | 1,637 |
6 | University of Westminster | 1,424 |
7 | University of the Arts London | 1,416 |
8 | Queen Mary University of London | 1,308 |
9 | Middlesex University | 1,167 |
10 | Kingston University | 1,109 |
Which tech giants do prefer University of Arts London alumni?
UAL alumni are most likely to get hired by Amazon (226), Accenture (292), and Apple (188). Instagram (23 alumni) and Netflix (55 alumni) also hire more UAL alumni than any other London university.
Name of company | Number of Alumni |
Amazon | 226 |
Accenture | 191 |
Apple | 188 |
147 | |
IBM | 127 |
Microsoft | 91 |
Netflix | 55 |
Oracle | 47 |
YouTube | 43 |
42 | |
Samsung Electronics | 39 |
Cisco | 37 |
Dell Technologies | 26 |
Huawei | 26 |
SAP | 26 |
23 | |
Uber | 21 |
Intel Corporation | 20 |
Alibaba Group | 15 |
LG Electronics | 11 |
Tencent | 10 |
JD.COM | 4 |
Methodology
- Researchers at TonerGiant analysed the LinkedIn profiles of 501,006 employees at the world’s 26 most valuable tech companies which we sourced from brandirectory.com.
- For each employee, they identified which university they graduated from at various degree levels.
- Some companies in our analysis (e.g. YouTube) were considered independently of their parent companies.
- Our analysis includes every university in the UK and the top 100 public and top 100 private universities in the USA.
- All educational blueprints are sourced from LinkedIn’s company and university profile pages and are correct as of January 2021.
Interesting but not very surprising as most of the Universities listed are those that have the highest number of students in London and the companies have offices in London too.
If there were a league table showing the percentage of total undergraduate students getting jobs with these companies, I think this list would also include Oxford and Cambridge, for example.