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Top 20 Colleges For Aspirational Entrepreneurs Based The PitchBook Ranking

Stanford University

Want to be an entrepreneur? Here are top 20 colleges for aspiring entrepreneurs.IBM, Facebook and Apple, three of the most well-known IT firms today have one thing in common – they were founded by college dropouts.

While this may fuel the myth that a college education is not necessary, many college graduates too have gone on to establish flourishing companies.

Stanford University

Colleges For A Aspiring Entrepreneurs Ranked By The PitchBook

If you’re a budding entrepreneur, your choice of educational institutions for higher learning is important. Colleges like Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley have an expansive alumni network of entrepreneurs.

Based on the number of companies founded by alumni and the number of graduates who launched venture-backed companies, a financial data and software company, PitchBook has published a list of the top universities for VC-backed entrepreneurs.

Stanford University leads this list. The university has 378 founders as part of their alumni network. There are 309 companies worldwide that were founded by Stanford graduates.

These companies raised a total of $3.5 billion in venture capital. Stanford University was followed by the University of California, Berkeley and MIT.

PitchBook Rank – Top Colleges

The Indian Institute of Technology was ranked 4^th. The institute is the first non-US school to find a spot amongst the top 7 positions. Last year, they were ranked at no. 10. The IIT alumni network has 264 founders who have set up a total of 205 companies and raised over $3,150 million of capital.

Ranked at no. 9, the Tel Aviv University from Israel was the only other non-US university to find a spot in the top 10 positions. The university has 169 founders in its alumni list. These graduates have founded 141 companies and raised over $1,253 million of capital.

Another Israeli school, Technion-Machon Technologi Le’ Israel found a spot on the top 20 list. They were ranked at the 18^th position. Technion has 119 founders on the alumni list who have established 98 companies and raised over $797 million in capital.

Best 20 Colleges For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Rank	School	Alumni Entrepreneurs	Companies Founded	Capital raised ($M)
1	Stanford	378	309	3519
2	UC Berkeley	336	284	2412
3	MIT	300	250	2417
4	IIT	264	205	3150
5	Harvard	253	229	3235
6	U. of Pennsylvania	244	221	2194
7	Cornell	212	190	1971
8	University of Michigan	176	158	1159
9	Tel Aviv University	169	141	1253
10	University of Texas	150	137	1298
11	Yale	149	132	2073
12	University of Illinois	146	131	1411
13	Carnegie Mellon	142	123	1080
14	UCLA	130	118	1298
15	Brown	127	110	1308
16	U. of Waterloo	122	96	1008
17	Princeton	119	115	1041
18	Technion	119	98	797
19	Columbia	115	105	952
20	U. of Wisconsin	111	103	832