PitchBook’s 2025 Top Universities, Ranked By Number Of MBA Startup Founders

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PITCHBOOK’S BEST UNIVERSITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE FOUNDERS

PitchBook compiles its annual list by tallying the number of alumni from each school who have founded capital-backed companies. This year, it based its analysis of more than 173,000 VC-backed founders.

PitchBook 2025: Undergraduate Founders
Rank
University
Founder Count
Company Count
Capital Raised
Change vs. 2024
1 University of California, Berkeley 1,804 1,650 $69.0B –
2 Stanford University 1,519 1,380 $102.2B –
3 Harvard University 1,355 1,237 $61.6B –
4 University of Pennsylvania 1,206 1,113 $120.4B ⬆ +1
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1,131 1,019 $69.8B ⬇ –1
6 Cornell University 944 903 $42.8B –
7 Tel Aviv University 865 736 $30.0B –
8 University of Texas, Austin 850 774 $24.0B ⬆ +1
9 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 845 787 $30.2B ⬇ –1
10 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 783 671 $26.7B ⬆ +3
11 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 751 691 $26.6B ⬇ –1
12 Yale University 710 665 $33.8B ⬇ –1
13 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 679 658 $17.0B ⬇ –1
14 Columbia University 671 634 $19.0B ⬆ +1
15 Princeton University 656 614 $27.1B ⬇ –1
16 University of Southern California (USC) 644 595 $32.8B –
17 University of Toronto 643 587 $75.6B ⬆ +10
18 University of Waterloo 639 527 $14.1B ⬆ +4
19 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 627 490 $20.2B ⬆ +6
20 Duke University 625 599 $25.2B ⬇ –3
21 Northwestern University 588 545 $22.6B ⬇ –2
22 McGill University 586 536 $21.0B ⬆ +1
23 New York University 584 556 $16.2B ⬇ –3
24 Brown University 547 511 $33.5B ⬇ –6
25 Tsinghua University 545 512 $37.3B ⬆ +5
26 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 540 462 $24.7B ⬆ +12
27 University of Wisconsin, Madison 526 483 $12.8B ⬇ –6
28 Carnegie Mellon University 499 457 $15.6B ⬇ –4
29 Brigham Young University 491 408 $8.9B ⬇ –3
30 Hebrew University 466 413 $15.1B ⬇ –1
31 University of Virginia, Charlottesville 460 439 $12.6B ⬆ +1
32 University of Washington, Seattle 454 419 $73.3B ⬇ –4
33 Georgia Institute of Technology 452 403 $12.0B ⬆ +6
34 Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) 451 425 $12.7B ⬇ –1
35 Dartmouth College 439 410 $20.4B ⬇ –4
36 University of Maryland, College Park 435 417 $11.3B ⬆ +1
37 University of California, San Diego 428 409 $12.3B ⬇ –3
38 Boston University 423 408 $16.7B ⬇ –4
39 University of Colorado, Boulder 412 398 $9.4B ⬇ –5
40 University of Western Ontario 407 373 $5.9B ⬆ +3
41 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 401 369 $6.4B ⬆ +7
42 Purdue University 385 361 $9.3B ⬇ –2
43 National University of Singapore 378 329 $8.9B ⬆ +8
44 University of British Columbia 375 333 $5.6B ⬇ –2
45 Georgetown University 368 361 $17.3B ⬇ –4
46 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 361 321 $12.0B ⬆ +14
T47 Reichman University 357 303 $9.0B ⬇ –3
T47 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 357 303 $16.3B ⬆ +6
49 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 337 289 $16.3B ⬆ +8
50 University of Oxford 332 318 $12.1B ⬇ –2
51 University of Florida, Gainesville 331 309 $17.0B ⬇ –5
52 Ben Gurion University 329 299 $9.5B ⬇ –2
53 Johns Hopkins University 323 301 $10.6B ⬆ +9
T54 Peking University 318 301 $19.3B ⬆ +17
T54 University of Cambridge 318 306 $14.7B ⬆ +1
56 University of Chicago 313 291 $14.3B ⬆ +11
57 Indiana University, Bloomington 308 296 $7.4B ⬇ –12
58 Arizona State University, Tempe 304 293 $6.2B ⬆ +1
59 Northeastern University 303 284 $3.8B ⬇ –1
60 Washington University 301 277 $14.2B ⬆ +3
61 University of California, Santa Barbara 296 289 $4.9B ⬇ –14
62 University of California, Davis 294 283 $6.2B ⬇ –8
63 Vanderbilt University 292 285 $7.8B ⬆ +3
64 Ohio State University 288 272 $6.0B ⬇ –8
65 Delhi University, India 284 271 $4.5B ⬆ +10
66 University of Mumbai 280 261 $9.3B ⬆ +14
67 Tufts University 278 266 $8.1B ⬇ –15
68 University of Melbourne 277 253 $5.4B ⬆ +15
69 Seoul National University 274 237 $9.6B ⬆ +11
70 Trinity College Dublin 268 249 $3.5B ⬇ –5
71 Monash University 267 249 $3.1B ⬆ +26
72 University of Notre Dame 263 246 $4.9B ⬇ –1
T73 University of Arizona, Tucson 262 247 $8.9B –
T73 Boston College 262 256 $9.5B ⬇ –6
75 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 254 240 $4.8B ⬇ –14
76 Texas A&M University 253 233 $5.8B ⬇ –7
77 University of Massachusetts 247 244 $5.5B ⬇ –13
T78 Queen’s University 246 221 $7.5B ⬇ –4
T78 Emory University 246 238 $7.2B ⬆ +1
80 London School of Economics 242 236 $6.3B ⬆ +8
81 Rutgers University 239 230 $6.2B ⬇ –5
T82 California Polytechnic University 238 224 $6.2B ⬇ –5
T82 University of Sydney 238 229 $4.6B ⬆ +3
84 State University of New York (SUNY) 227 223 $5.0B ⬇ –14
85 Michigan State University 222 213 $3.6B ⬇ –3
86 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani) 221 190 $4.0B ⬆ +18
87 Virginia Tech 220 211 $4.6B ⬇ –1
88 California State University 214 207 $4.4B ⬇ –10
89 Syracuse University 213 202 $3.8B ⬆ +1
T90 University of California, Irvine 210 202 $10.9B ⬇ –4
T90 George Washington University 210 202 $3.6B ⬇ –1
T90 Bar-Ilan University 210 197 $8.9B –
T90 Copenhagen Business School 210 189 $3.0B ⬆ +7
94 University of New South Wales 205 190 $9.0B ⬇ –1
95 Imperial College London 203 194 $4.1B ⬇ –3
T96 University of Utah, Salt Lake City 195 179 $4.5B ⬇ –1
T96 University College Dublin 195 185 $2.8B ⬇ –2
T98 University of Cape Town 190 169 $2.7B ⬆ +10
T98 Rensselaer Polytechnic 190 180 $5.5B ⬇ –14
T100 York University 189 179 $2.5B ⬆ +7
T100 University of Calgary 189 166 $3.4B ⬆ +27