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November 21, 2021 | Tom Ballard

PitchBook releases latest ranking of universities by number of founders

PitchBook has just released its annual ranking of undergraduate and MBA programs based on the number of venture capital-backed founders among their alumni, and the top four for sure will not surprise you.

Stanford University comes in first followed by the University of California, Berkeley (#2), Harvard (#3), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#4). Rounding out the top five is the University of Pennsylvania.

The highest ranked institution in the Southeast or East Coast is Duke (#20) followed by the University of Virginia (#30), University of Maryland (#33), Georgia Institute of Technology (#36), University of North Carolina (#40), and University of Florida (#46).

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