Entrepreneurial Colleges

Entrepreneurial Colleges February 26, 2013 Richard Fairbank is quite the successful entrepreneur who has made his alma mater (Stanford) proud. As a regular reader of our college admissions blog, you might know that we write a lot about startups founded in the dorm rooms of highly selective colleges. Well, we just came across a ranking by Forbes of the most entrepreneurial colleges. And how exactly did Forbes go about devising this entrepreneurial college list? Through a pretty interesting method, it turns out. According to Forbes, Mining its database of 161 million members, LinkedIn identified alumni of these schools as founders of the most companies with 10 or more employees. How cool! So which university tops the list? Would it surprise you at all if we said Stanford University? And which alumnus made the universitys entrepreneurial excerpt? Richard Fairbank, the founder and CEO of Capital One Financial. Capital Ones revenue in 2011 was $18.5 billion. Thats billion with a b as Kevin OLeary so often likes to point out on ABCs hit series Shark Tank. And which university places second? Why the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As referenced in Forbes, According to a 2011 report from MITs Sloan School of Management, as of 2006 there were 25,600 active companies founded by MIT alumni, employing approximately 3.3 million people. Thats quite a lot of people being employed! Next on the list is Harvard University, followed by Caltech, University of California Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University, Haverford College, Yale University, Babson College, Brown University, Northwestern University, Harvey Mudd College, Swarthmore College, Claremont McKenna College, Amherst College, Williams College, and rounding out the ranking is Hampshire College.