NEW: Brown Named #13 Most Entrepreneurial College in US
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Brown University has just been named the #13 Most Entrepreneurial College in the US, according to Forbes Magazine.
The new ranking comes from a LinkedIn analysis of its database of 20 million college grads, and identified alumni of these schools as founders of the most companies with 10 or more employees.
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Stanford University took the #1 spot in the new ranking, followed by MIT at #2 and Harvard at #3. Even though Harvard took third place, it has produced 10 self-made billionaires, according to Forbes, more than any other school on the list. Among those billionaire grads: Steve Ballmer (’77), Phil Falcone (’84) and Sumner Redstone (’44). 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.
California Institute of Technology took the #4 spot, followed by University of California, Berkeley, at #5.
Brown was beat out in the ranking by fellow Ivies University of Pennsylvania (#6), Dartmouth College (#7), Princeton (#9), and Yale (#11). Forbes made special mention of Brown alum Steven Rattner, cofounder of the Quadrangle Group, who graduated from Brown in 1974.
For the entire article and rankings, go here.
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