To become a venture-backed company CEO, it might be necessary to obtain your education at institutions such as Stanford or Harvard.
Top Business Schools Produce the most CEOs
According to P&Q, among these two schools’ alumni, there are the most CEOs of unicorn startups. Although the number of applications to MBA programs is dropping, for startup CEOs, an MBA degree is still a necessary investment.
There are more CEOs than company founders among Harvard’s alumni.
Below, you can enjoy the list of top business schools from which the most CEOs have graduated.
School | Number of Startups that Raised $1 Million + |
Harvard | 148 |
Stanford | 147 |
MIT | 65 |
University of Pennsylvania | 63 |
Columbia | 58 |
UC Berkeley | 44 |
Cornell | 31 |
Northwestern | 31 |
Yale | 30 |
University of Michigan | 27 |
UCLA | 27 |
Carnegie Mellon | 26 |
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 26 |
Duke | 26 |
USC | 25 |
Princeton | 23 |
NYU | 22 |
UW Madison | 15 |
Darthmouth | 14 |
University of Colorado | 13 |
Conclusions
The most popular among successful CEOs are schools belonging to the Ivy League.
Additionally, the research shows that top MBA programs that accept only a limited number of students annually graduate the most CEOs.
This data concerns not only MBA programs, but the entire business schools. According to Crunchbase, it gives a small margin of error.
Some of these business schools also offer executive MBA programs, which are included in the ranking.
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