Amazon hires more alumni from Russell Group universities than any other major tech company
According to analysis from TonerGiant, there are universities in the UK that are more likely to set up graduate careers at the world’s biggest, most valuable tech companies.
Using LinkedIn, TonerGiant discovered where more than 500,000 employees of the world’s most valuable tech companies studied at university to find out which universities are more likely to get you hired by a tech giant. Its analysis looked at 26 of the biggest tech companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.
By teaming up with tech recruitment expert, Misha Yurchenko at Carrus.io, they were able to find out more about the hiring process at tech companies to quantify the research.
The university where graduates are most likely to get hired to work in tech companies is the University of Cambridge with an impressive 4,219 alumni now working at one of the big tech giants.
In second place is Cambridge’s rival, the University of Oxford with 3,410 alumni and in third place, is The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with 3,378 alumni.
| Ranking | Name of University | Number of Alumni |
| 1 | University of Cambridge | 4219 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 3410 |
| 3 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 3378 |
| 4 | The University of Manchester | 2548 |
| 5 | University College London | 2454 |
| 6 | London Business School | 2403 |
| 7 | Imperial College London | 2358 |
| 8 | The University of Edinburgh | 2063 |
| 9 | University of Leeds | 1676 |
| 10 | The University of Nottingham | 1673 |
The UK universities where graduates are least likely to get hired by a tech giant
According to the analysis, Queen’s University Belfast is the university in the UK where its alumni are least likely to be hired by a tech giant with only two recorded alumni working for one as of January 2022.
| Ranking | University | Number of Alumni |
| 1 | Queen’s University Belfast | 2 |
| 2 | Royal Agricultural University | 4 |
| 3 | Regent’s University London | 5 |
| 4 | The University of Law | 6 |
| 5 | University of East Anglia | 7 |
| 6 | St George’s, University of London | 14 |
| 7 | Harper Adams University | 17 |
| 8 | Newman University, Birmingham | 20 |
| 9 | Leeds Trinity University | 29 |
| 10 | University of the Highlands and Islands | 32 |
Which UK regions are most likely to produce alumni for the world’s biggest tech companies?
London came out on top with a massive 27,678 alumni now working for a tech giant. South East England ranked in second place with 12,683 alumni and Scotland in third place with 8,269 alumni.
Northern Irish universities were found to be the worst to attend if students want to work for a tech giant afterwards with only 620 alumni now working for one of the top 26 biggest tech companies.
| Region | Number of Alumni |
| London | 27678 |
| South East England | 12683 |
| Scotland | 8269 |
| North West England | 7980 |
| East of England | 7464 |
| West Midlands | 7216 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 6557 |
| East Midlands | 6513 |
| South West England | 6035 |
| North East England | 4184 |
| Wales | 3060 |
| Northern Ireland | 620 |
Amazon hires more alumni from Russell Group universities than any other major tech company
According to the study, Amazon has more employees (17,427) that graduated from a prestigious Russell Group university than any other of the most valuable tech companies in our analysis.
Accenture comes in second place, with 13,660 graduates from Russell Group universities working there.
The full breakdown of which universities each tech giant is most likely to hire is available here.
| Company | Number of Russell Group alumni |
| Amazon | 17,427 |
| Accenture | 13,660 |
| IBM | 11,702 |
| 9,207 | |
| Apple | 7,340 |
| Oracle | 4,803 |
| SAP | 3,389 |
| Cisco | 3,250 |
| Microsoft | 3,076 |
| Huawei | 2,514 |
