PitchBook’s 2024 Top Universities Ranked By Startup Founders

PITCHBOOK’S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR MBA 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.

Rank	University	Founder Count	Company Count	$$ Raised (Billions)	Country
1	Harvard University	1881	1729	$79.40	United States
2	Stanford University	1189	1077	$67.96	United States
3	University of Pennsylvania	1147	1053	$40.17	United States
4	INSEAD	916	841	$23.77	France
5	Columbia University	835	782	$26.22	United States
6	Northwestern University	798	758	$21.06	United States
7	University of Chicago	710	660	$20.77	United States
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	709	648	$23.98	United States
9	University of California, Berkeley	520	482	$17.50	United States
10	London Business School	451	422	$10.92	United Kingdom
11	New York University	431	421	$8.13	United States
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	418	397	$10.49	United States
13	Tel Aviv University	354	336	$9.06	Israel
14	Duke University	270	263	$5.27	United States
15	IE University	256	224	$5.74	Spain
16	Babson College	230	211	$4.08	United States
17	University of Southern California (USC)	210	204	$7.06	United States
18	University of Texas	209	191	$2.54	United States
19	University of Oxford	203	182	$5.53	United Kingdom
20	Indian School of Business (ISB)	195	176	$5.18	India
21	Cornell University	192	186	$6.84	United States
22	University of Michigan	190	185	$3.57	United States
23	Yale University	189	178	$4.50	United States
24	ESADE	180	168	$2.38	Spain
25	HEC Paris	175	165	$2.64	France
26	Arizona State University	146	141	$5.04	United States
27	Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta	145	133	$3.35	India
28	University of Virginia	138	134	$4.99	United States
29	Dartmouth College	136	132	$5.69	United States
30	Tsinghua University	133	131	$10.40	China
31	Pepperdine University	130	124	$2.18	United States
32	China Europe International Business School	128	126	$8.72	China
32	Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore	128	122	$2.84	India
34	Carnegie Mellon University	127	120	$4.55	United States
35	University of Washington	109	104	$1.60	United States
36	Getulio Vargas Foundation	106	104	$0.57	Brazil
37	University of North Carolina	98	96	$1.90	United States
38	University of Toronto	96	91	$2.29	Canada
39	University of Cambridge	95	86	$1.97	United Kingdom
40	Georgetown University	94	87	$4.27	United States
41	Santa Clara University	91	90	$4.66	United States
42	Boston University	90	89	$0.79	United States
43	University of Minnesota	89	85	$5.75	United States
44	University of Phoenix	86	86	$1.59	United States
45	ESSEC Business School	85	83	$2.96	France
45	Hebrew University	85	83	$1.19	Israel
45	Emory University	85	82	$2.15	United States
45	Indiana University	85	83	$1.80	United States
49	Peking University	84	83	$3.37	China
49	Reichman University	84	80	$1.76	Israel