{"id":1613,"date":"2019-05-26T21:54:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theofficialboard.com\/best-articles\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2019-09-02T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:20:21","slug":"where-funded-founders-went-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theofficialboard.com\/best-articles\/2019\/2019-05\/where-funded-founders-went-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Funded Founders Went to School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Viewed in <\/em>Crunchbase<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most universities do not give out degrees on how to launch a startup, business and technology columnist Joanna Glasner correctly observes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But where do startup entrepreneurs obtain their university educations? This article and report summarize both the universities and the business schools that graduate the most startup founders who raised $1 million or more over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among U.S. universities, Glasner found, Stanford University led the pack with 318 alumni followed by MIT (242), University of California at Berkeley (208), Harvard University (189), and Cornell University (104). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among U.S. business schools, Harvard leads with 192 followed by the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School of Business (116), Stanford University (112), and Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management (47). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if your school is not on the list, \u201cno need to fret,\u201d Glasner writes. \u201cMore than 16,000 people founded or co-founded companies that raised $1 million or more since last May, according to Crunchbase data,\u201d she writes.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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