Both universities have long lists of Tech CEOs. Here are just a few more tech CEOs from Princeton.
About 5 or 10 years ago the CEOs of British Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin, and The Boeing Company were all Princeton MAE alumni. I can only remember two or the three; Philip M. Condit MAE *65 was at Boeing and Norman R. Augustine BSE’57 MS ’59 was at Lockheed Martin. After he retired Norman R. Augustine taught engineering management at Princeton and currently serves on the MAE Advisory council. George Whitesides '96 is the CEO of Virgin Galactic and also serves on the MAE Advisory council. James McDonnell ’21 was the CEO of McDonnell Douglas. Andy L. Tung MAE ’87 is the of COO Dragonair, Hong Kong. George B Rathman *51 was the founder and CEO of Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology company.
The STEM students at Princeton and MIT are very similar. The SAT math 75th percentile at both Princeton and MIT is 800. Since less than one quarter of the Princeton students are engineers over half of the engineering students may have scored 800 on their math SATs. As might be expected Princeton students score higher on the 75th percentile in critical reading (800 at Princeton to 770 at MIT) and the 75th percentile in writing (800 at Princeton to 780 at MIT).