Emory Goizueta | Ms. Athlete To Consulting
GMAT 655, GPA 3.89
NYU Stern | Mr. Structural Engineer A
GMAT 680, GPA 3.3
MIT Sloan | Ms. Engineering + Extracurriculars
GMAT 695, GPA 3.45
Harvard | Ms. Impact Consultant
GRE 317, GPA 7.630
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Fertilizer Financier
GMAT 735 GMAT Focus, GPA 3.85
Harvard | Ms. Indian Engineer
GMAT 760, GPA 3.5
Wharton | Mr. Private Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.2
HEC Paris | Ms. M&A Lawyer
GMAT 700, GPA 3.5
Stanford GSB | Ms. UK In the USA
GMAT 720, GPA 1st class (UK scoring)
Kenan-Flagler | Mr. Do I Have A Shot?
GMAT EA: 151, GPA 3.1
Chicago Booth | Ms. Tech4Good
GMAT 760, GPA 3.76
Columbia | Mr. Underdog
GMAT 695 GMAT Focus (750 Legacy GMAT equivalent), GPA 2.85
McCombs School of Business | Mr. Big Pharma
GRE N/A, GPA 3.1
Kenan-Flagler | Mr. Non-Traditional Undergrad
GMAT 660, GPA 2.9
Kellogg SOM | Ms. Talent Acquisition
GRE 316, GPA 3.6

PitchBook’s 2024 Top Universities Ranked By Startup Founders

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on October 07, 2024 | 2,819 Views

PITCHBOOK’S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE 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 University of California, Berkeley 1811 1642 $59.70 United States
2 Stanford University 1547 1397 $80.09 United States
3 Harvard University 1352 1222 $56.99 United States
4 University of Pennsylvania 1197 1099 $52.87 United States
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1175 1049 $53.64 United States
6 Cornell University 933 882 $35.07 United States
7 Tel Aviv University 893 755 $29.85 Israel
8 University of Michigan 860 792 $27.05 United States
9 University of Texas 842 773 $21.74 United States
10 University of Illinois 739 687 $24.10 United States
11 Yale University 702 657 $28.00 United States
12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 690 665 $17.00 United States
13 Columbia University 677 636 $20.91 United States
14 Princeton University 667 627 $32.98 United States
15 University of Southern California (USC) 649 600 $30.03 United States
16 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 644 556 $20.66 Israel
17 Duke University 607 579 $21.56 United States
18 Northwestern University 605 560 $21.70 United States
19 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 598 466 $18.43 India
20 New York University 587 555 $17.99 United States
21 University of Waterloo 562 478 $20.01 Canada
22 Brown University 559 520 $26.54 United States
23 McGill University 558 511 $19.94 Canada
24 University of Wisconsin 547 501 $16.01 United States
25 University of Toronto 531 488 $26.26 Canada
26 Carnegie Mellon University 529 475 $16.75 United States
27 Tsinghua University 520 492 $38.13 China
28 Brigham Young University 519 430 $8.73 United States
29 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 509 433 $21.91 India
30 Hebrew University 489 428 $14.70 Israel
31 University of Virginia 475 449 $13.45 United States
32 University of Washington 471 435 $23.13 United States
33 Georgia Institute of Technology 460 408 $11.97 United States
34 Dartmouth College 453 420 $17.84 United States
35 Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) 451 421 $11.63 United States
36 University of California, San Diego 448 425 $13.59 United States
37 University of Maryland 442 425 $10.53 United States
38 Boston University 441 424 $15.72 United States
39 University of Colorado 422 404 $9.62 United States
40 Georgetown University 395 389 $12.31 United States
40 Purdue University 395 367 $9.89 United States
42 Reichman University 385 324 $8.69 Israel
43 University of British Columbia 367 323 $5.57 Canada
44 National University of Singapore 352 299 $8.57 Singapore
45 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 346 289 $15.16 India
46 University of Florida 345 317 $11.18 United States
47 Ben Gurion University 333 298 $9.12 Israel
48 University of North Carolina 332 309 $5.59 United States
49 Indiana University 323 309 $6.44 United States
50 University of Oxford 322 309 $10.19 United Kingdom
51 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 321 284 $15.10 India
52 Washington University 313 290 $16.91 United States
53 University of California, Davis 310 297 $6.84 United States
54 Arizona State University 306 293 $6.15 United States
54 Johns Hopkins University 306 287 $9.71 United States
56 Northeastern University 305 285 $4.84 United States
57 University of Cambridge 302 290 $13.13 United Kingdom
58 Ohio State University 299 280 $5.38 United States
59 Vanderbilt University 298 288 $6.54 United States
60 University of California, Santa Barbara 297 287 $5.60 United States
61 Tufts University 296 282 $8.20 United States
62 Peking University 295 281 $18.34 China
63 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 290 251 $15.13 India
64 Trinity College Dublin 280 259 $4.59 Ireland
65 University of Arizona 278 258 $9.05 United States
66 Boston College 276 261 $8.37 United States
67 University of Chicago 274 258 $15.05 United States
68 University of Notre Dame 273 250 $5.54 United States
69 Queen’s University 272 243 $8.26 Canada
70 Texas A&M University 269 250 $6.70 United States
71 Rutgers University 264 250 $6.47 United States
72 University of Mumbai 263 247 $6.93 India
73 University of Minnesota 259 242 $4.47 United States
74 Delhi University, India 257 245 $4.96 India
75 University of Massachusetts 254 250 $6.14 United States
75 State University of New York (SUNY) 254 251 $6.52 United States
77 Seoul National University 251 220 $5.26 South Korea
78 University of Melbourne 245 226 $4.41 Australia
79 California Polytechnic University 244 229 $5.69 United States
80 Emory University 243 233 $7.02 United States
81 London School of Economics 231 225 $6.55 United Kingdom
82 University of Sydney 229 222 $5.24 Australia
82 Michigan State University 229 220 $4.11 United States
84 California State University 226 219 $9.66 United States
85 Virginia Tech 224 213 $4.89 United States
86 Bar-Ilan University 220 204 $9.02 Israel
87 University of California, Irvine 210 202 $5.73 United States
88 Syracuse University 207 196 $3.32 United States
89 University of New South Wales 206 190 $5.16 Australia
90 Monash University 205 195 $2.49 Australia
90 Copenhagen Business School 205 185 $3.22 Denmark
90 University of London 205 200 $3.97 United Kingdom
93 University College Dublin 202 188 $2.67 Ireland
93 George Washington University 202 195 $3.37 United States
95 Rensselaer Polytechnic 199 187 $5.49 United States
96 University of Western Ontario 194 184 $2.40 Canada
96 University of Utah 194 178 $4.62 United States
98 American University 189 175 $2.43 United States
99 North Carolina State University 186 171 $3.25 United States
100 Wesleyan University 184 173 $3.56 United States

PAGE 2: Pitchbook’s best universities for MBA programs
PAGE 3: Pitchbook’s best universities for graduate programs
PAGE 4: Pitchbook’s best undergraduate universities for founders
PAGE 5: Pitchbook’s best universities for female founders

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