Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California rank among some of the top schools to produce startup founders that recently got private funding, according to Crunchbase. the top 36 colleges in the US whose graduates have attained $1 million or more in fundingStanford topped the list of schools with 472 graduates, Berkeley ranked third with 297 graduate-turned-funded founders and USC rounded up the top 10 with 113.
Other California-based colleges to make the list of schools include the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, and the California Institute of Technology. The data also details the business schools that some of the startup founders attended. And three of those schools based in California also ranked in the top 10: Stanford Business School, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the Haas School of Business at Berkeley.
Many of the world's biggest technology companies have been founded by grads of these elite universities. Alphabet cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google while they were PhD students at Stanford, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Intel cofounder Gordon Moore are alums of Berkeley, and