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I looked at several variables, including capital raised, notable alumni, and programs and resources available, to determine which colleges are best for entrepreneurship.
I also interviewed several faculty and student leaders to inform my opinion better.
Startup count and capital raised provided by Pitchbook.
Location: Stanford, California
Startup Count: 1,297
Capital Raised: $73.5 billion
Notable Alumni: Sam Altman (OpenAI), Phil Knight (Nike), Sergey Brin (Google), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Evan Spiegel (Snapchat), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Peter Thiel (PayPal), Keith Rabois (Founders Fund), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Berkeley, California
Startup Count: 1,305
Capital Raised: $47.5 billion
Notable Alumni: Ali Ghodsi (Databricks), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Ryan Petersen (Flexport)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Startup Count: 1,086
Capital Raised: $51.8 billion
Notable Alumni: Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Parker Conrad (Rippling), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark), David Weiden (Khosla Ventures)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Startup Count: 959
Capital Raised: $46 billion
Notable Alumni: Patrick Collison (Stripe), Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), Nat Friedman (AI Grant), Drew Houston (Dropbox)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Startup Count: 736
Capital Raised: $25.3 billion
Notable Alumni: Larry Page (Google), Jeff Lawson (Twilio), Brad Keywell (Groupon), Frederic Latta Smith (General Motors)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Startup Count: 933
Capital Raised: $34 billion
Notable Alumni: Elon Musk (Tesla), Andy Rachleff (Wealthfront), Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Los Angeles, California
Startup Count: 564
Capital Raised: $28.8 billion
Notable Alumni: Aaron Levie (Box), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Max Mullen (Instacart)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Startup Count: 692
Capital Raised: $26.3 billion
Notable Alumni: Shlomo Kramer (Cato Networks), Ronni Zehavi (HiBob), Emanuel Timor (Vertex Ventures Israel)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Ithaca, New York
Startup Count: 807
Capital Raised: $30 billion
Notable Alumni: Paul Graham (Y Combinator), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Scott Belsky (Adobe), Jenny Lee (GGV Capital)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Startup Count: 594
Capital Raised: $24.0 billion
Notable Alumni: Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), Justin Kan (Twitch), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), Joseph Tsai (Alibaba), Ben Silbermann (Pinterest), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe), Kevin Ryan (MongoDB), Max Rhodes (Faire)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Startup Count: 571
Capital Raised: $30.4 billion
Notable Alumni: Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sridhar Vembu (Zoho), Joseph Lubin (Consensys), Mark Caputo (US Renal Care), Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures), Evelyn Rusli (Yumi), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Jack Altman (Lattice)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Startup Count: 506
Capital Raised: $17.4 billion
Notable Alumni: Tim Cook (Apple), Fred Ehrsam (Coinbase), Howard Lerman (Yext)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Startup Count: 487
Capital Raised: $31.5 billion
Notable Alumni: Dylan Field (Figma), Andrew Hunt (Warby Parker), Evan Stites-Clayton (Teespring), Irving Fain (Bowery Farming)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Los Angeles, California
Startup Count: 615
Capital Raised: $17.2 billion
Notable Alumni: Travis Kalanick (Uber), Mike Morhaime (Blizzard Entertainment), Todd Mackey (GoGuardian)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: New York, New York
Startup Count: 513
Capital Raised: $16.8 billion
Notable Alumni: Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Robert Kalin (Etsy)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Startup Count: 232
Capital Raised: $12.3 billion
Notable Alumni: Evan Sharp (Pinterest), Chris Maguire (Etsy), Matthew Prince (Cloudflare)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: New York, New York
Startup Count: 569
Capital Raised: $19.3 billion
Notable Alumni: Robert Reffkin (Compass), Jon Oringer (Shutterstock), Ben Horowitz (a16z)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Startup Count: 444
Capital Raised: $18 billion
Notable Alumni: Gary Beasley (Roofstock), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Jay Hoag (TCV)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Austin, Texas
Startup Count: 677
Capital Raised: $15.8 billion
Notable Alumni: Michael Dell (Dell), Bill Gurley (Benchmark)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
Startup Count: 234
Capital Raised: $5.1 billion
Notable Alumni: Joe Schmidt IV (Andreessen Horowitz), Patrick O'Shaughnessy (Invest Like The Best), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Pasadena, California
Startup Count: N/A
Capital Raised: N/A
Notable Alumni: Shaun Maguire (Sequoia Capital), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Adam D'Angelo (Quora)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Washington, DC
Startup Count: 341
Capital Raised: $9.3 billion
Notable Alumni: Katherine Boyle (a16z), David Wehner (CSO at Meta), Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Startup Count: 439
Capital Raised: $16.5 billion
Notable Alumni: Lucy Guo (Scale AI), Sohail Prasad (Forge), Brian Olsavsky (CFO at Amazon)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Champaign, Illinois
Startup Count: 552
Capital Raised: $20.8 billion
Notable Alumni: Marc Andreessen (a16z), Max Levchin (Affirm), Scott Banister (IronPort Systems)
Entrepreneurship Programs:
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Startup Count: 428
Capital Raised: $17.0 billion
Notable Alumni: Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital), Matei Zaharia (Databricks)
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