Which Colleges Have The Best Career/Placement Service ?

sakky
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:10 +0000

I for instance know several partners in Austin Ventures ( based in Texas and one of the top VC firms in the country ) who graduated from UT Austin, Texas A & M and Baylor. Where did they get their MBA ? Well, one went to Harvard, the other went to Vanderbilt and the other went to Northwestern. But notice that their UNDERGRAD were in different schools ( 2 of them public and one a Baptist affiliated school ).



Austin Ventures has 7 General Partners (the highest non-founder role).

Of them, 2 went to Harvard for undergrad: Joe Aragona
& Ken DeAngelis. One went to Johns Hopkins. One went to a school in India. One went to UChicago. One went to Trinity University. And one went to the University of Oklahoma.

Hence of the 7 General Partners at a Texas-based venture capital firm, Harvard is the most represented undergrad program. Think about that. This isn’t a firm that is situated in Boston or New York, where one might expect that Harvard would be predominant. This is Texas. Yet even there, Harvard is more represented than any of the much larger Southern public schools.