PitchBook’s 2024 Top Universities Ranked By Startup Founders

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on October 04, 2024 | 845 Views

PITCHBOOK’S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR FEMALE FOUNDERS

PitchBook compiles its annual list by tallying the number of alumni from each school who have founded capital-backed companies. This year, it based its analysis of more than 167,000 VC-backed founders.

MBA Programs
Rank University Founder Count Company Count $$ Raised (Billions) Country
1 Harvard University 384 365 $7.69 United States
2 Stanford University 233 219 $11.54 United States
3 University of Pennsylvania 167 160 $3.36 United States
4 Northwestern University 144 139 $4.25 United States
5 Columbia University 138 135 $3.16 United States
6 INSEAD 124 118 $1.04 France
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 121 120 $2.56 United States
8 University of Chicago 95 94 $1.86 United States
9 University of California, Berkeley 75 74 $3.94 United States
10 London Business School 73 69 $0.63 United Kingdom
11 New York University 62 61 $0.32 United States
12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 46 44 $0.78 United States
13 University of Oxford 39 37 $0.35 United Kingdom
14 Yale University 30 30 $0.40 United States
14 Duke University 30 30 $0.26 United States
14 Cornell University 30 30 $0.51 United States
17 Tel Aviv University 29 29 $0.79 Israel
18 University of Michigan 27 27 $0.46 United States
18 University of Southern California (USC) 27 27 $0.43 United States
20 Arizona State University 26 26 $0.20 United States
21 HEC Paris 24 24 $0.40 France
21 IE University 24 24 $0.17 Spain
23 ESADE 23 23 $0.10 Spain
24 Georgetown University 17 16 $0.27 United States
24 Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore 17 17 $0.15 India
24 University of Washington 17 15 $0.15 United States
24 University of Virginia 17 17 $0.13 United States

Graduate Programs
Rank University Founder Count Company Count $$ Raised (Billions) Country
1 Harvard University 676 613 $15.52 United States
2 Stanford University 584 490 $20.11 United States
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 354 317 $8.42 United States
4 Columbia University 322 300 $7.73 United States
5 University of California, Berkeley 260 237 $9.40 United States
6 University of Pennsylvania 245 220 $5.27 United States
7 Northwestern University 214 200 $8.17 United States
8 University of Cambridge 204 187 $4.78 United Kingdom
9 University of Oxford 202 180 $2.33 United Kingdom
10 New York University 188 181 $1.72 United States
11 University of Chicago 138 129 $3.39 United States
12 INSEAD 125 119 $1.04 France
13 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 118 106 $3.37 United States
14 London School of Economics 115 112 $1.45 United Kingdom
15 Cornell University 105 99 $2.78 United States
16 HEC Paris 92 87 $1.08 France
17 Johns Hopkins University 90 85 $2.33 United States
17 University of Michigan 90 84 $2.40 United States
17 University of Southern California (USC) 90 88 $1.48 United States
20 Yale University 89 83 $2.58 United States
21 Carnegie Mellon University 87 81 $1.01 United States
21 London Business School 87 83 $0.70 United Kingdom
23 Imperial College London 86 80 $0.77 United Kingdom
24 Tel Aviv University 82 71 $1.52 Israel
25 University of Texas 78 74 $0.64 United States
26 Boston University 70 69 $1.34 United States
27 Duke University 66 63 $1.46 United States
28 University of Illinois 65 57 $1.17 United States
29 Georgetown University 64 62 $0.61 United States
30 University of Toronto 63 58 $2.10 Canada
31 University of Washington 61 54 $0.53 United States
32 Hebrew University 55 43 $1.34 Israel
33 Tsinghua University 53 47 $1.99 China
34 University of California, San Diego 50 49 $0.67 United States
35 University of London 44 41 $0.95 United Kingdom
36 Lund University 43 36 $0.38 Sweden
36 McGill University 43 40 $0.68 Canada
38 University of Wisconsin 42 41 $0.52 United States
38 University of British Columbia 42 37 $0.49 Canada
40 Arizona State University 41 41 $0.49 United States
40 ESADE 41 38 $1.45 Spain
42 University of Colorado 40 38 $0.82 United States
42 University of Edinburgh, Scotland 40 37 $0.35 United Kingdom
44 National University of Singapore 39 38 $1.35 Singapore
45 George Washington University 38 36 $0.48 United States
45 University College London 38 35 $0.31 United Kingdom
45 University of Maryland 38 33 $0.56 United States
48 California Institute of Technology 36 30 $0.81 United States
49 Uppsala University 35 32 $0.58 Sweden
49 Purdue University 35 32 $1.21 United States
49 University of North Carolina 35 33 $0.24 United States
49 University of Virginia 35 33 $0.29 United States

Undergraduate Programs
Rank University Founder Count Company Count $$ Raised (Billions) Country
1 University of California, Berkeley 283 281 $7.01 United States
2 Stanford University 247 237 $6.54 United States
3 Harvard University 227 219 $6.18 United States
4 University of Pennsylvania 184 181 $3.54 United States
5 Cornell University 159 152 $4.01 United States
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 141 140 $3.07 United States
7 New York University 138 135 $1.70 United States
8 Columbia University 134 131 $2.32 United States
9 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 121 121 $2.32 United States
10 Princeton University 117 112 $2.51 United States
11 Northwestern University 109 106 $2.15 United States
12 Yale University 108 107 $5.46 United States
12 Brown University 108 107 $3.01 United States
14 University of Michigan 107 104 $1.54 United States
15 University of Texas 106 105 $1.11 United States
16 Duke University 99 98 $1.54 United States
17 McGill University 93 92 $1.14 Canada
18 University of Illinois 80 78 $1.53 United States
18 University of Southern California (USC) 80 79 $1.43 United States
20 University of Toronto 79 76 $0.68 Canada
21 Tel Aviv University 76 75 $1.37 Israel
22 Boston University 74 72 $0.92 United States
23 Dartmouth College 70 69 $2.17 United States
24 Georgetown University 67 67 $0.83 United States
25 University of Colorado 64 61 $0.82 United States
26 University of Wisconsin 62 61 $0.74 United States
27 University of Virginia 61 60 $0.76 United States
27 University of North Carolina 61 59 $0.92 United States
27 University of Washington 61 59 $11.29 United States
30 University of California, San Diego 60 60 $1.26 United States
31 Peking University 59 59 $2.48 China
32 Carnegie Mellon University 54 53 $1.16 United States
32 National University of Singapore 54 53 $1.01 Singapore
34 University of Waterloo 51 50 $0.58 Canada
35 Tufts University 50 49 $1.11 United States
36 University of Maryland 49 49 $0.28 United States
36 University of Oxford 49 49 $0.48 United Kingdom
36 University of Florida 49 49 $0.63 United States
36 Vanderbilt University 49 49 $0.85 United States
40 Wellesley College 48 48 $0.73 United States
40 Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) 48 48 $0.28 United States
42 Delhi University, India 47 46 $1.03 India
43 University of California, Davis 45 45 $1.10 United States
44 Hebrew University 43 41 $1.63 Israel
45 University of Chicago 42 41 $0.68 United States
46 Queen’s University 41 41 $2.41 Canada
46 Washington University 41 41 $0.44 United States
46 University of British Columbia 41 41 $0.41 Canada
46 University of Melbourne 41 41 $1.13 Australia
46 Tsinghua University 41 41 $1.94 China

PAGE 2: Pitchbook’s best universities for MBA programs
PAGE 3: Pitchbook’s best universities for graduate programs
PAGE 4: Pitchbook’s best undergraduate universities for founders
PAGE 5: Pitchbook’s best universities for female founders

 

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