The Universities With The Most Graduates Working At Top Fortune 500 Companies – Forbes

The University of Phoenix led the list of universities with the most alumni working at the top 20 … [+] Fortune 500 companies. getty A new analysis of more than 150,000 LinkedIn pages reveals which universities have the most graduates employed at the 20 leading Fortune 500 companies in the United States. The study – entitled Corporate hiring: The most in-demand colleges and degrees by Fortune 500 companies – was conducted for DegreeChoices, a website that offers advice to students about their college and career decisions. Here’s how the study was done. The authors examined more than 150,000 LinkedIn profiles of current employees in a variety of leadership roles at the top 20 Fortune 500 companies (as of 2021) to identify their educational backgrounds. They then tabulated the universities attended and degrees earned by these individuals. It’s important to remember that not all employees in these companies have a LinkedIn profile so the numbers below are not definitive. They are likely to underestimate the number of alumni from a given institution. Furthermore, different companies have very different percentages of employees who maintain such profiles. For example, while 94% of JPMorgan Chase’s 250,000+ employees had a LinkedIn page, only 23% of…
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