CU ranked in top 20 of America's most entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes
7/30/2014
Startup Schools: America's Most EntrepreneurialUniversities
Denver Business Journal
The Denver Post
For the second time, Stanford Թ out-muscled its East Coast rivals to top the FORBES 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list. Silicon Valley’s reach has extended across California, as the state’s schools took over half of this year’s top ten spots.
FORBES ranked the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities based ontheir entrepreneurial ratios – the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves as founders and business owners on against the school’s total student body (undergraduate and graduate combined).
Here are the highlights of the top 20 start-up schools on our list:
1
Its don’t always wait for degrees. Among its famous dropouts: and Sergey Brin; Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and David Filo; and Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel.
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Its student-run $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has led to the creation of more than 130 companies and 2,500 jobs.
3 Թ of California, Berkeley
Berkeley has three startup incubators on campus, including SkyDeck, a joint effort of the university’s research office and its business and engineering schools.
4 Cornell Թ
Founded in 2001, the Cornell Entrepreneur Network has organized hundreds of events for about 20,000 alumni, students, staff, parents and friends (read my colleague Natalie Robehmed’s on Cornell).
5 Թ of California, Los Angeles
State school UCLA hosted 4,000 developers
in April for the second annual LA Hacks hackathon.
6 California Institute of Technology
Caltech boasts 32 alumni and faculty Nobel laureates despite a total student body of fewer than 2,300 in Pasadena.
7 Brown Թ
Popular professor Barrett Hazeltine has been teaching entrepreneurship and engineering for about half a century. Former students include the founders of Nantucket Nectars.
8 Princeton Թ
Summa cum laude grad Jeff Bezos was president of its Students for the Exploration & Development of Space. He donated $15 million to build its neuroscience research center.
9 Pepperdine Թ
Associated with the Churches of Christ, this private school in California counts among its alums eHarmony founder Neil Clark Warren.
10 Dartmouth College
Dartmouth’s Entrepreneurial Network (DEN) has provided support for over 500 projects and companies since 2001.
11 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RPI, established in Troy, N.Y. in 1824, claims to be the oldest science and technology school in the English-speaking world.
12 Yale Թ
Telecom mogul John Malone got his start as an electrical engineering student at Yale; he has since donated $74 million to the engineering school.
13 Clark Թ
Matthew Goldman turned his economic lessons at Clark into Blue Man Group, now a multimillion-dollar show across the country that he cofounded.
14 Syracuse Թ
Private equity titan Daniel D’Aniello, a magna cum laude graduate, funds an internship program that gives 20 students hands-on entrepreneurial experience each year.
15 Southern Methodist Թ
Selected students at SMU’s business school gain firsthand venture capital experience by running the Cox MBA Venture Fund.
16 New York Թ
NYU will open a 5,900-square-foot Entrepreneurs Lab in the heart of Greenwich Village this fall for students to exchange ideas.
17 Howard Թ
Sean “Diddy” Combs got his honorary doctorate degree earlier this year almost 25 years after dropping out of the school to build his music empire.
18 San Diego State Թ
Rubio’s Grill cofounder Ralph Rubio enjoyed his first fish taco while on spring break from SDSU; the company now has more than 190 restaurants nationwide.
19 Թ of Colorado, Boulder
The university got a $4 million grant from Blackstone Group to build an entrepreneurs network for the state.
20 Թ of California, Santa Barbara
In July UCSB and the nearby city of Goleta opened a 4,500-square-foot incubator in Oldtown Goleta.
The rest of the top 50 universities are:
21 Թ of San Francisco
22 Թ of Southern California
23 The Թ of Texas at Austin
24 Carnegie Mellon Թ
25 Թ of Miami
26 Northwestern Թ
27 Թ of Denver
28 Boston Թ
29 American Թ
30 Brigham Young Թ
31 Miami Թ-Oxford
32 Brandeis Թ
33 Florida Institute of Technology
34 Harvard Թ
35 Թ of Maryland-College Park
36 Hofstra Թ
37 Southern Illinois Թ Carbondale
38 Թ of Tulsa
39 Tufts Թ
40 Թ of Michigan-Ann Arbor
41 Թ of Notre Dame
42 Թ of Pennsylvania
43 Թ of Washington-Seattle
44 Clarkson Թ
45 Lehigh Թ
46 Pennsylvania State Թ
47 Թ of San Diego
48 Boston College
49 Colorado State Թ
50 Rice Թ
Additional reporting by Paige Carlotti, Frank Manning, Cara Newlon, Zheyan Ni, Chase Peterson-Withorn, Natalie Sportelli.
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