PitchBook’s 2024 Top Universities Ranked By Startup Founders

PITCHBOOK’S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR FEMALE 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.

MBA Programs
Rank	University	Founder Count	Company Count	$$ Raised (Billions)	Country
1	Harvard University	384	365	$7.69	United States
2	Stanford University	233	219	$11.54	United States
3	University of Pennsylvania	167	160	$3.36	United States
4	Northwestern University	144	139	$4.25	United States
5	Columbia University	138	135	$3.16	United States
6	INSEAD	124	118	$1.04	France
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	121	120	$2.56	United States
8	University of Chicago	95	94	$1.86	United States
9	University of California, Berkeley	75	74	$3.94	United States
10	London Business School	73	69	$0.63	United Kingdom
11	New York University	62	61	$0.32	United States
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	46	44	$0.78	United States
13	University of Oxford	39	37	$0.35	United Kingdom
14	Yale University	30	30	$0.40	United States
14	Duke University	30	30	$0.26	United States
14	Cornell University	30	30	$0.51	United States
17	Tel Aviv University	29	29	$0.79	Israel
18	University of Michigan	27	27	$0.46	United States
18	University of Southern California (USC)	27	27	$0.43	United States
20	Arizona State University	26	26	$0.20	United States
21	HEC Paris	24	24	$0.40	France
21	IE University	24	24	$0.17	Spain
23	ESADE	23	23	$0.10	Spain
24	Georgetown University	17	16	$0.27	United States
24	Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore	17	17	$0.15	India
24	University of Washington	17	15	$0.15	United States
24	University of Virginia	17	17	$0.13	United States

Graduate Programs
Rank	University	Founder Count	Company Count	$$ Raised (Billions)	Country
1	Harvard University	676	613	$15.52	United States
2	Stanford University	584	490	$20.11	United States
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	354	317	$8.42	United States
4	Columbia University	322	300	$7.73	United States
5	University of California, Berkeley	260	237	$9.40	United States
6	University of Pennsylvania	245	220	$5.27	United States
7	Northwestern University	214	200	$8.17	United States
8	University of Cambridge	204	187	$4.78	United Kingdom
9	University of Oxford	202	180	$2.33	United Kingdom
10	New York University	188	181	$1.72	United States
11	University of Chicago	138	129	$3.39	United States
12	INSEAD	125	119	$1.04	France
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	118	106	$3.37	United States
14	London School of Economics	115	112	$1.45	United Kingdom
15	Cornell University	105	99	$2.78	United States
16	HEC Paris	92	87	$1.08	France
17	Johns Hopkins University	90	85	$2.33	United States
17	University of Michigan	90	84	$2.40	United States
17	University of Southern California (USC)	90	88	$1.48	United States
20	Yale University	89	83	$2.58	United States
21	Carnegie Mellon University	87	81	$1.01	United States
21	London Business School	87	83	$0.70	United Kingdom
23	Imperial College London	86	80	$0.77	United Kingdom
24	Tel Aviv University	82	71	$1.52	Israel
25	University of Texas	78	74	$0.64	United States
26	Boston University	70	69	$1.34	United States
27	Duke University	66	63	$1.46	United States
28	University of Illinois	65	57	$1.17	United States
29	Georgetown University	64	62	$0.61	United States
30	University of Toronto	63	58	$2.10	Canada
31	University of Washington	61	54	$0.53	United States
32	Hebrew University	55	43	$1.34	Israel
33	Tsinghua University	53	47	$1.99	China
34	University of California, San Diego	50	49	$0.67	United States
35	University of London	44	41	$0.95	United Kingdom
36	Lund University	43	36	$0.38	Sweden
36	McGill University	43	40	$0.68	Canada
38	University of Wisconsin	42	41	$0.52	United States
38	University of British Columbia	42	37	$0.49	Canada
40	Arizona State University	41	41	$0.49	United States
40	ESADE	41	38	$1.45	Spain
42	University of Colorado	40	38	$0.82	United States
42	University of Edinburgh, Scotland	40	37	$0.35	United Kingdom
44	National University of Singapore	39	38	$1.35	Singapore
45	George Washington University	38	36	$0.48	United States
45	University College London	38	35	$0.31	United Kingdom
45	University of Maryland	38	33	$0.56	United States
48	California Institute of Technology	36	30	$0.81	United States
49	Uppsala University	35	32	$0.58	Sweden
49	Purdue University	35	32	$1.21	United States
49	University of North Carolina	35	33	$0.24	United States
49	University of Virginia	35	33	$0.29	United States

Undergraduate Programs
Rank	University	Founder Count	Company Count	$$ Raised (Billions)	Country
1	University of California, Berkeley	283	281	$7.01	United States
2	Stanford University	247	237	$6.54	United States
3	Harvard University	227	219	$6.18	United States
4	University of Pennsylvania	184	181	$3.54	United States
5	Cornell University	159	152	$4.01	United States
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	141	140	$3.07	United States
7	New York University	138	135	$1.70	United States
8	Columbia University	134	131	$2.32	United States
9	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	121	121	$2.32	United States
10	Princeton University	117	112	$2.51	United States
11	Northwestern University	109	106	$2.15	United States
12	Yale University	108	107	$5.46	United States
12	Brown University	108	107	$3.01	United States
14	University of Michigan	107	104	$1.54	United States
15	University of Texas	106	105	$1.11	United States
16	Duke University	99	98	$1.54	United States
17	McGill University	93	92	$1.14	Canada
18	University of Illinois	80	78	$1.53	United States
18	University of Southern California (USC)	80	79	$1.43	United States
20	University of Toronto	79	76	$0.68	Canada
21	Tel Aviv University	76	75	$1.37	Israel
22	Boston University	74	72	$0.92	United States
23	Dartmouth College	70	69	$2.17	United States
24	Georgetown University	67	67	$0.83	United States
25	University of Colorado	64	61	$0.82	United States
26	University of Wisconsin	62	61	$0.74	United States
27	University of Virginia	61	60	$0.76	United States
27	University of North Carolina	61	59	$0.92	United States
27	University of Washington	61	59	$11.29	United States
30	University of California, San Diego	60	60	$1.26	United States
31	Peking University	59	59	$2.48	China
32	Carnegie Mellon University	54	53	$1.16	United States
32	National University of Singapore	54	53	$1.01	Singapore
34	University of Waterloo	51	50	$0.58	Canada
35	Tufts University	50	49	$1.11	United States
36	University of Maryland	49	49	$0.28	United States
36	University of Oxford	49	49	$0.48	United Kingdom
36	University of Florida	49	49	$0.63	United States
36	Vanderbilt University	49	49	$0.85	United States
40	Wellesley College	48	48	$0.73	United States
40	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)	48	48	$0.28	United States
42	Delhi University, India	47	46	$1.03	India
43	University of California, Davis	45	45	$1.10	United States
44	Hebrew University	43	41	$1.63	Israel
45	University of Chicago	42	41	$0.68	United States
46	Queen’s University	41	41	$2.41	Canada
46	Washington University	41	41	$0.44	United States
46	University of British Columbia	41	41	$0.41	Canada
46	University of Melbourne	41	41	$1.13	Australia
46	Tsinghua University	41	41	$1.94	China