Noted People
About 80 percent of San Jose State’s nearly 200,000 alumni of record live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The other 20 percent are scattered around the globe, with concentrations in Southern California, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and New York City.
SJSU claims to provide more engineering, computer science and business graduates to the Silicon Valley than any other university in the world.
Nearly 200 SJSU graduates have founded, co-founded, served or serve as senior executives or officers of public and private companies reporting annual sales between US$40 million and US$26 billion.
Notable companies founded by SJSU students and alumni include Intel Corporation (1968), Specialized Bicycle Components (1974), Oracle Corporation (1977), and Seagate Technology (1979).
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