<p>Just saw this related info on other threads and thought it might add to this discussion as well…</p>
<p>Vital Signs; Top IPO Schools
Wall Street Journal
December 1, 2011 (pasted as requires a subscription to view):
By JIM CARLTON
<a href=“Vital Signs: Top IPO Schools - WSJ”>Vital Signs: Top IPO Schools - WSJ;
<p>Stanford University leads the nation in a new measure of success: the U.S. college with the highest number of graduates who are top officers in companies that recently filed for public stock offerings.</p>
<p>Stanford grads accounted for 32 of the 802 executives whose companies filed for IPOs in the first half of 2011, followed by Harvard University with 24, according to a new analysis by research firm Equilar Inc.</p>
<p>Another prominent Bay Area institution, the University of California at Berkeley, came in third with 23 graduates, the Equilar report found.</p>
<p>Equilar officials said the executives attended a total of 379 schools, and speculated that Stanford and Berkeley ranked so high because of their proximity to Silicon Valley, the nation’s capital of start-ups.</p>
<p>“There is definitely a bias towards California,” said Andrew Comstock, an Equilar senior product manager. </p>
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<p>Universities associated with the greatest # of graduates running companies that filed to go public in first half of 2011;</p>
<p>1) Stanford - 32
2) Harvard - 24
3) UC Berkeley - 23
4) Northwestern U - 19
5) UCLA - 18
6) U Penn - 16
7) U of Texas 13
8) Indiana U - 12
9) U Chicago - 12
10) Duke - 11</p>
<p>Go Cats!!</p>