The Most Entrepreneurial Colleges-Forbes

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From Forbes- interesting list



Mining its database of 161 million members*, LinkedIn identified alumni of these schools as founders of the most companies with 10 or more employees.

1. Stanford University

Richard Fairbank (B.A. ’72, M.B.A. ’81) is the founder and CEO of Capital One Financial. (2011 revenue: $18.5 billion).
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

According to a 2011 report from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, as of 2006 there were 25,600 active companies founded by MIT alumni, employing approximately 3.3 million people.

3. Harvard University

Harvard has produced 10 self-made billionaires, more than any other school on this list. Billionaire grads include Steve Ballmer (’77), Phil Falcone (’84) and Sumner Redstone (’44).

4. California Institute of Technology

Charles Trimble (B.S. ’63, M.B.A. ’64) cofounded Trimble Navigation (2011 revenue: $1.6 billion), which makes GPS products, including devices for delivery trucks and military jets.

5. University of California, Berkeley

This past spring Weili Dai (’84), cofounder of the Marvell Technology Group (2011 net revenue: $3.4 billion), was the first woman to give the commencement speech at the college of engineering.

6. University of Pennsylvania

Elon Musk (’97) founded SpaceX in 2002, which has approximately $4 billion in contracts, including a large one with NASA. Musk also cofounded Tesla Motors and PayPal.

7. Dartmouth College

In 2004 Steve Hafner (’91) cofounded Kayak, a travel site (2011 revenues: $225 million).

8. University of California, Los Angeles

Allen Adham and his 1990 classmates Michael Morhaime and Frank Pearce cofounded Blizzard Entertainment in 1991, makers of the online videogame World of Warcraft, which in 2010 had over 12 million players worldwide.

9. Princeton University

Jeff Bezos, who launched Amazon.com when he was 31, was a member of the class of 1986.

10. Haverford College

Despite its tiny size (the average class has 294 students), nearly 300 alumni describe ­themselves as entrepreneurs.

11. Yale University

The Yale Entrepreneurial Institute has nurtured 52 companies that have raised a total of OK a total of? $45 million in funding since 2007.

12. Babson College

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13. Brown University

Steven Rattner, cofounder of the Quadrangle Group, graduated from Brown in 1974.

14. Northwestern University

Sixty-three percent of Northwestern students claim they want to start their own businesses.

15. Harvey Mudd College

The school is named for Harvey Seeley Mudd, who cofounded Cyprus Mines, a copper mining concern, in the early 1900s with his father.

16. Swarthmore College

John Montgomery (’77), founder and partner of Bridgeway Capital Management, manages over $2 billion in assets.

17. Claremont McKenna College

LBO king Henry Kravis (net worth: $4 billion) was a 1967 graduate of the college.

18. Amherst College

John Abele (’59) cofounded medical device giant Boston Scientific in 1979 (2011 sales: $7.6 billion).

19. Williams College

AOL cofounder Steve Case (net worth: $1.5 billion) graduated from Williams in 1980.

20. Hampshire College

Yogurtmaker Stonyfield Farm (2011 sales: $360 million) was founded by Gary Hirshberg (’72).

Research: Michael R. Garfinkel

* This number was originally, and inaccurately, 20 million. That is the number of college students and recent grads in LinkedIn’s database. Unfortunately, that is also the number we published in the Aug. 20th issue of Forbes magazine. We regret the error.

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Now the US News & World Report version


Tuition and fees: $40,400 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 1,956
Setting: suburban
#1Babson College
Babson Park, MA

Founded in 1919, Babson College is a private institution. Babson College follows a semester-based academic calendar.




In-state tuition and fees: $9,028 (2010-11)
Out-of-state tuition and fees: $27,689 (2010-11)
Enrollment: 32,367
Setting: urban
#2Indiana University--Bloomington
Bloomington, IN

Indiana University--Bloomington is a public institution that was founded in 1820. The school has 33.8 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students, and the student-faculty ratio at Indiana University--Bloomington is 19:1.




Tuition and fees: $42,818 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 17,380
Setting: urban
#3University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Undergraduates study in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California, a private school based in Los Angeles. The USC Trojans compete in the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference and are particularly competitive in football.




Tuition and fees: $42,098 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 9,865
Setting: urban
#4University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania is a private institution in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa., near Drexel University. Undergraduates can study in four academic departments: Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Wharton.





Tuition and fees: $40,732 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 4,299
Setting: urban
#5Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Though the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may be best known for its math, science, and engineering education, this private research university also offers architecture, humanities, management, and social science programs. The school is located in Cambridge, Mass., just across the Charles River from downtown Boston.




In-state tuition and fees: $11,767 (2011-12)
Out-of-state tuition and fees: $34,645 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 25,540
Setting: urban
#6University of California--Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

The University of California—Berkeley overlooks the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, Calif. Students at this public school have more than 700 organizations to get involved in, including more than 55 fraternity and sorority chapters.


In-state tuition and fees: $9,286 (2011-12)
Out-of-state tuition and fees: $25,496 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 30,592
Setting: urban
#7University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

The University of Arizona offers its students a wide variety of ways to get involved, from joining the ZonaZoo cheering section at Wildcats sports games to checking out the burgeoning Greek scene with more than 30 fraternities and sororities.





Tuition and fees: $37,667 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 14,201
Setting: urban
#8Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Syracuse University was established in 1870 as a private institution. Syracuse University follows a semester-based academic calendar and its admissions are considered more selective.

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In-state tuition and fees: $9,794 (2011-12)
Out-of-state tuition and fees: $32,506 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 38,420
Setting: urban
#9University of Texas--Austin
Austin, TX

A public institution, University of Texas--Austin was founded in 1883. University of Texas--Austin offers a Greek system, where 13.1 percent of the student body is involved in a sorority and 11.5 percent is involved in a fraternity.

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In-state tuition and fees: $12,590 (2011-12)
Out-of-state tuition and fees: $37,265 (2011-12)
Enrollment: 27,027
Setting: urban
#10University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan--Ann Arbor has a total undergraduate enrollment of 27,027, with a gender distribution of 50.9 percent male students and 49.1 percent female students. 37.0 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 63.0 percent of students live