UC Berkeley Top PitchBook's Top 100 Colleges That Produce the Most Startup Founders

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Great entrepreneurs can come from anywhere, but some universities have a truly exceptional track record of attracting and producing future founders.

PitchBook’s annual university rankings compare schools by tallying up the number of alumni entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital in the last decade. The rankings are powered by PitchBook data and are based on an analysis of nearly 167,000 VC-backed founders.

Here is the Global Top 15:

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Check out the full list, broken down by Undergrad, Graduate, and MBA, as well as Region, Public vs. Private, and enrollment size: https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pitchbook-university-rankings

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Interesting, no Babson - normally thought of as the top school for entrepreneurialism.

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On a percentage basis, maybe. Not big enough to hit this list, which appears to track absolute numbers. All big schools. Lowest category is 15,000 or fewer students.

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Babson is listed at #17 on the MBA degree holder list.

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