CU ranked in top 20 of America's most entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes
7/30/2014
Startup Schools: America's Most Entrepreneurial泭Universities
Denver Business Journal
The Denver Post
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For the second time, Stanford 勛圖厙 out-muscled its East Coast rivals to top the FORBES 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list. Silicon Valleys reach has extended across California, as the states schools took over half of this years top ten spots.
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FORBES ranked the nations most entrepreneurial research universities based on泭their entrepreneurial ratios the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves as founders and business owners on against the schools total student body (undergraduate and graduate combined).
Here are the highlights of the top 20 start-up schools on our list:
1
Its dont always wait for degrees. Among its famous dropouts: and Sergey Brin; Yahoos Jerry Yang and David Filo; and Snapchats 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 勛圖厙 of California, Berkeley
Berkeley has three startup incubators on campus, including SkyDeck, a joint effort of the universitys research office and its business and engineering schools.
4 Cornell 勛圖厙
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 Robehmeds 泭on Cornell).
5 勛圖厙 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 勛圖厙
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 勛圖厙
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 勛圖厙
Associated with the Churches of Christ, this private school in California counts among its alums eHarmony founder Neil Clark Warren.
10 Dartmouth College
Dartmouths 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 勛圖厙
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 勛圖厙
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 勛圖厙
Private equity titan Daniel DAniello, a magna cum laude graduate, funds an internship program that gives 20 students hands-on entrepreneurial experience each year.
15 Southern Methodist 勛圖厙
Selected students at SMUs business school gain firsthand venture capital experience by running the Cox MBA Venture Fund.
16 New York 勛圖厙
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 勛圖厙
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 勛圖厙
Rubios 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 勛圖厙 of Colorado, Boulder
The university got a $4 million grant from Blackstone Group to build an entrepreneurs network for the state.
20 勛圖厙 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 勛圖厙 of San Francisco
22 勛圖厙 of Southern California
23 The 勛圖厙 of Texas at Austin
24 Carnegie Mellon 勛圖厙
25 勛圖厙 of Miami
26 Northwestern 勛圖厙
27 勛圖厙 of Denver
28 Boston 勛圖厙
29 American 勛圖厙
30 Brigham Young 勛圖厙
31 Miami 勛圖厙-Oxford
32 Brandeis 勛圖厙
33 Florida Institute of Technology
34 Harvard 勛圖厙
35 勛圖厙 of Maryland-College Park
36 Hofstra 勛圖厙
37 Southern Illinois 勛圖厙 Carbondale
38 勛圖厙 of Tulsa
39 Tufts 勛圖厙
40 勛圖厙 of Michigan-Ann Arbor
41 勛圖厙 of Notre Dame
42 勛圖厙 of Pennsylvania
43 勛圖厙 of Washington-Seattle
44 Clarkson 勛圖厙
45 Lehigh 勛圖厙
46 Pennsylvania State 勛圖厙
47 勛圖厙 of San Diego
48 Boston College
49 Colorado State 勛圖厙
50 Rice 勛圖厙
Additional reporting by Paige Carlotti, Frank Manning, Cara Newlon, Zheyan Ni, Chase Peterson-Withorn, Natalie Sportelli.
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