The country's tech giants are hiring thousands of Ohio college graduates, with the state's biggest university supplying the biggest pipeline, according to an analysis of LinkedIn data.
Amazon.com Inc. employs more than 2,800 graduates who list an Ohio school as their alma mater, according to 500,000 profiles crunched by TonerGiant, a British printer supply company. Of those, 946 were from Ohio State University. However, the analysis did not differentiate between technology or fulfillment center roles.
Also hiring more than 1,000 Ohio alumni apiece, among the world's 26 largest tech companies, are Google, Apple, IBM and Accenture.
Intel Corp., in sixth place with 732 Ohio graduates in its ranks, is likely to move up the list in future years; the California chip maker has committed $100 million to workforce development in the state in connection with its decision to build a semiconductor manufacturing complex outside New Albany in Licking County.
OSU by far had the most graduates hired by large multinational tech companies in the analysis, with more than 4,000, followed by University of Cincinnati at 1,970 and Miami University at 1,400.
Overall, Ohioans are proportionately underrepresented at the 26 tech giants: The seventh-largest state by population ranked No. 12 in TonerGiant's analysis, with about 11,000 alumni employed at the companies. California, unsurprisingly, had the most at nearly 74,000.
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