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The 20 schools with the most alumni at Facebook

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during his keynote address at Facebook F8 in San Francisco in March. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Facebook is a great place to work. In fact, it landed the top spot on this year's Business Insider list of the best companies to work for in America.

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Employees are well-paid from the start, with entry level software engineers making $106,000 a year. The offices feature food, arcade games, and killer artPlus, Mark Zuckerberg has been rated as America's most-liked CEO.

So how can you land a job there?

Since networks often lead to jobs, it's probably a good idea to attend a feeder school like Stanford University, the University of Texas, or the University of California at Berkeley.

To figure out which schools send the most alumni to work for Zuck, we used data from LinkedIn's vast network of professionals.​

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Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post relied on data from LinkedIn's University Finder tool that was discovered to be incomplete after posting. We've updated the article to reflect new data pulled by LinkedIn.

Here are the schools with the most alums at Facebook:

1. Stanford University 

2. University of California at Berkeley

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3. Carnegie Mellon University

4. University of Waterloo

5. The University of Texas at Austin

6. University of California at Los Angeles

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7. University of Washington

8. Tsinghua University 

9. San Jose State University

10. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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11. University of California at San Diego

12. Harvard University

13. Cornell University

14. University of California at Davis

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15. University of Michigan

16. University of Southern California

17. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

18. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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19. University of California at Santa Barbara

20. New York University

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