Where are women founders getting their education?
Regardless on whether it is an undergraduate, graduate, or MBA degree, two schools consistently rank in the top 5.
What universities rank at or near the top of the rankings in terms of women founders? PitchBook has the answer, but it depends on whether you are talking about undergraduates, graduate students, or those earning their MBA at the university.
Regardless of classification, two schools – Harvard and Stanford – ranked in the top 5 in each category.
- At the undergraduate level, it is the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) followed by Stanford, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), and Cornell. The highest ranked school in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) was the University of Texas (#15) and the University of Florida and Vanderbilt, tied at #36.
- In terms of graduate school founders, Harvard tops the list followed by Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia, and UC Berkeley. That school in Austin that has a different shade of orange was again the highest-ranked school in the SEC, coming in at #25. No other SEC was ranked in the top 50.
- Finally, women who earned their MBAs at these universities went on to found the most companies: Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Northwestern, and Columbia ranked #1 to #5. The SEC was not represented among the top 50 schools graduating MBAs who subsequently launched their own start-ups.
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