Top Feeder Schools for Internships at Major Companies

Most of these schools have online programs, so I decided to post this here, but online students likely won't have the same networking opportunities.

https://www.internships.com/career-advice/search/go-here-get-hired-there-which-schools-do-companies-hire-interns-from

 

The list surprises me...

 

Missing: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Brown. I did see Columbia and Cornell. Surprised none of them were listed for East Coast companies.

 

They seem to be calculating "top" as the schools with the largest share of interns at each company. The Ivy League schools have undergraduate enrollment of between 4450 and 1500, averaging 9,751. My thought is that most schools on the list will have bigger enrollments than that, so even though 100% of Harvard students may get an internship at a hypothetical company, that would only represent ~6700 students, while if 30% of North Carolina State University students get internships at the same company that represents nearly 7800 students, causing NCSU to rank as a better feeder school at that company.

 

Columbia, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford have fewer than 10,000 undergraduate students.

Most of the schools on the list are tech companies and accounting firms. UT-Austin is ranked #1 in accounting, which is why it's a top feeder school for three out of the Big 4 accounting firms. Other schools listed, such as University of Michigan, NYU, Stanford, USC, etc, also rank very high in accounting. Princeton and Cornell are the only two Ivy League schools in the Top 10 for computer science. I think this has more to do with prestige than enrollment numbers.

 

But, enrollment could be a reason why Princeton (a top CS school) and University of Pennsylvania (a top accounting school) didn't make the list, but several other schools on the list are just as small. Proximity and competition in the local area likely influence this as well.