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A review of LinkedIn members who attended the region’s 14 institutions of higher education reveals that the top employer of local grads is CVS Health Corp. And although the top five employers for grads from the region are local employers, it turns out that Google is the leading employer of Brown University graduates (who are members of LinkedIn).

And while CVS Health is the top employer of grads from three local schools (Community College of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island), as is Fidelity Investments (Bryant University, Providence College and Wheaton College), the U.S. Navy leads the list for two schools, Roger Williams University and Salve Regina University. One institution – the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – was also the largest employer of its alumni. And interestingly, the institution that employs the largest number of Rhode Island School of Design grads is … Brown.

Below is a list of the top four employers for graduates of each school, based on their self-reported attendance on their LinkedIn profiles. n

Rhode Island schools

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Brown University

1. Google (327)

2. Microsoft (151)

3. IBM (139)

4. Pfizer (133)

Bryant University

1. Fidelity Investments (377)

2. CVS Health (291)

3. Citizens Bank (268)

4. PwC (264)

Community College of Rhode Island

1. CVS Health (177)

2. Citizens Bank (140)

3. Lifespan (103)

4. Rhode Island Hospital (79)

Johnson & Wales University

1. Sodexo (305)

2. Marriott International (296)

3. Aramark (234)

4. CVS Health (139)

New England Institute of Technology

1. EMC (111)

2. FM Global (53)

3. CVS Health (52)

4. Meditech (45)

Providence College

1. Fidelity Investments (198)

2. State Street (144)

3. PwC (120)

4. Bank of America (102)

Rhode Island College

1. CVS Health (213)

2. Lifespan (181)

3. Citizens Bank (169)

4. Providence Public Schools (124)

Rhode Island School of Design

1. Brown University (84)

2. Hasbro (60)

3. Gensler (38)

4. Google (34)

Roger Williams University

1. U.S. Navy (132)

2. CVS Health (62)

3. Fidelity Investments (54)

4. U.S. Army (43)

Salve Regina University

1. U.S. Navy (56)

2. Lifespan (46)

3. State Street (34)

4. CVS Health (34)

University of Rhode Island

1. CVS Health (391)

2. Pfizer (206)

3. State of Rhode Island (190)

4. Fidelity Investments (175)

Bristol County, Mass., schools

Stonehill College

1. State Street (133)

2. Fidelity Investments (128)

3. PwC (78)

4. W.B. Mason Company Inc. (73)

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

1. UMass Dartmouth (581)

2. State Street (203)

3. EMC (158)

4. Southcoast Health (111)

Wheaton College

1. Fidelity Investments (31)

2. State Street (28)

3. Brigham & Women’s Hospital (20)

4. Mass. Institute of Technology (18)

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