PitchBook’s 2024 Top Universities Ranked By Startup Founders

PITCHBOOK’S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR GRADUATE 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	Stanford University	4214	3228	$194.94	United States
2	Harvard University	3716	3143	$158.59	United States
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	2834	2177	$111.97	United States
4	Columbia University	1885	1673	$57.36	United States
5	University of California, Berkeley	1804	1501	$68.01	United States
6	University of Pennsylvania	1740	1502	$54.56	United States
7	University of Cambridge	1391	1163	$38.44	United Kingdom
8	University of Oxford	1307	1086	$39.99	United Kingdom
9	Northwestern University	1286	1128	$32.98	United States
10	New York University	1063	989	$35.48	United States
11	University of Chicago	1016	885	$33.33	United States
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	963	846	$34.08	United States
13	INSEAD	942	864	$24.17	France
14	Tel Aviv University	929	745	$19.97	Israel
15	Carnegie Mellon University	865	714	$32.79	United States
16	Cornell University	855	725	$27.47	United States
17	Imperial College London	837	697	$12.44	United Kingdom
18	University of Texas	796	690	$19.84	United States
19	University of Michigan	786	659	$25.33	United States
20	University of Southern California (USC)	784	691	$28.59	United States
21	Johns Hopkins University	682	589	$26.25	United States
22	Yale University	669	570	$29.92	United States
23	Tsinghua University	632	579	$39.27	China
24	HEC Paris	619	547	$10.66	France
25	University of Illinois	602	488	$15.90	United States
26	London School of Economics	597	570	$12.02	United Kingdom
27	London Business School	590	543	$12.81	United Kingdom
28	University of Toronto	575	453	$25.89	Canada
29	Duke University	570	489	$16.90	United States
30	Georgia Institute of Technology	511	442	$15.78	United States
31	University of Washington	479	398	$11.16	United States
32	ETH Zurich	468	326	$7.00	Switzerland
32	Boston University	468	420	$10.00	United States
34	Hebrew University	464	347	$11.07	Israel
35	University of California, San Diego	412	328	$13.50	United States
36	University of Wisconsin	396	325	$10.21	United States
37	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	386	309	$11.76	Israel
38	University of Maryland	362	311	$11.94	United States
39	University of Minnesota	339	275	$13.57	United States
40	University of Virginia	338	299	$12.38	United States
41	Georgetown University	337	315	$7.54	United States
42	IE University	335	296	$9.02	Spain
43	University of Colorado	317	268	$7.87	United States
44	ESADE	313	286	$8.42	Spain
44	Arizona State University	313	283	$7.02	United States
46	Purdue University	311	267	$9.28	United States
47	Lund University	307	235	$3.31	Sweden
48	Peking University	303	290	$12.29	China
49	Technical University of Munich	297	243	$6.06	Germany
49	National University of Singapore	297	271	$7.06	Singapore
51	University of Florida	291	241	$4.23	United States
52	McGill University	288	247	$9.21	Canada
53	University of British Columbia	281	236	$16.12	Canada
53	Delft University of Technology	281	231	$2.15	Netherlands
55	California Institute of Technology	279	226	$8.13	United States
56	University College London	275	243	$5.77	United Kingdom
57	Copenhagen Business School	272	244	$2.71	Denmark
58	Ohio State University	271	236	$4.63	United States
59	Washington University	268	222	$12.18	United States
60	George Washington University	266	254	$6.38	United States
61	Babson College	262	239	$4.53	United States
62	University of Edinburgh, Scotland	261	237	$4.51	United Kingdom
63	University of North Carolina	258	239	$7.44	United States
64	Princeton University	248	215	$8.15	United States
65	University of London	246	225	$5.56	United Kingdom
66	Technical University of Denmark	243	180	$2.54	Denmark
67	Seoul National University	242	184	$3.71	South Korea
68	University of Copenhagen	234	176	$3.69	Denmark
68	Dartmouth College	234	219	$8.57	United States
70	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven, University of Leuven)	233	178	$3.03	Belgium
71	University of Tokyo	229	184	$6.77	Japan
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	217	199	$2.08	Netherlands
72	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	217	188	$9.50	Sweden
74	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)	216	197	$5.89	United States
75	Vanderbilt University	214	178	$4.74	United States
76	Indiana University	213	194	$4.88	United States
77	ESCP Europe	211	198	$5.76	France
77	Bar-Ilan University	211	187	$5.37	Israel
79	University of California, Davis	208	184	$7.18	United States
80	Northeastern University	206	192	$4.83	United States
81	Bocconi University	204	196	$2.08	Italy
82	Ben Gurion University	203	164	$4.87	Israel
83	Texas A&M University	202	184	$3.86	United States
84	Stockholm School of Economics	201	179	$3.70	Sweden
85	Indian School of Business (ISB)	199	180	$5.69	India
86	Uppsala University	198	152	$1.80	Sweden
86	University of Pittsburgh	198	168	$3.86	United States
88	University of Amsterdam	197	181	$4.44	Netherlands
89	Chalmers University of Technology	196	152	$2.86	Sweden
90	Emory University	193	169	$4.28	United States
91	Rutgers University	191	174	$4.67	United States
91	University of California, Irvine	191	160	$5.05	United States
93	ESSEC Business School	190	182	$4.83	France
94	Brown University	188	159	$5.49	United States
95	University of Warwick	187	180	$3.03	United Kingdom
96	University of Waterloo	184	150	$4.08	Canada
96	Fudan University	184	177	$9.12	China
96	University of Rochester	184	153	$10.98	United States
99	Ecole polytechnique	183	164	$3.16	France
99	Weizmann Institute of Science	183	147	$4.99	Israel
99	Santa Clara University	183	176	$6.50	United States