colleges that are best for CEOs/ Start ups / entrepreneurs

College Search & Selection
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<p>As I have been looking at colleges I am learning alot more about what I want out of a college and what I am going for. This seems to be constantly changing each time I visit a college</p>

<p>But I would like to know if there are any colleges that are geared toward turning out CEOs / employers and not preparing students for entry level jobs or getting entry level jobs.</p>

<p>Several people I know go to top schools like Carnegie Mellon arguably one of the best computer schools in the world and all the seniors there are getting entry level jobs at facebook, google , microsoft.</p>

<p>I want a college ( if there are some) that are structured in a way to teach running your own company/business. And have professors with actual real world experience and have failed and can share insight on failures and success's/ have some strong connections and not just guys who got Phds in there field , wrote a book about what they learned and are lecturing about it.</p>

<p>Also would be great if the school had very strong networking/ alumni relations</p>

<p>does anybody know of any?</p>

<p>sorry I can't provide more specifics at this point</p>

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<p>West Coast colleges tend to have good start-up culture (think USC, Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, etc. etc.).</p>

<p>On the East Coast, it’s more entry level but some colleges that have a start-up niche to them are Bentley College, Tufts, MIT, Duke, and UNC come to mind. Though the west-coast is where it’s mainly at.</p>

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<p>I looked at tufts last weekend looked pretty good when I talked to students most professors teach from a text book and not from real world experience . Bentley was on my list will take a look at it as I am on the EAST Coast ( I live in maryland)</p>

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<p>Interesting article in May issue of The New Yorker re Stanford’s entrepreneurial culture. [Is</a> Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker](<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/30/120430fa_fact_auletta]Is”>Stanford and Silicon Valley | The New Yorker)</p>

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<p>For start-ups & entrepreneurs, Stanford hands down.
For CEOs, like The Fortunate 500, I would say Harvard.</p>

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<p>might look at Babson and Holy Cross both produce scores of CEO"s. Holy Cross(don’T HAVE TO BE RELIGIOUS) was recently ranked 12th among all schools for the highest alumni salaries(Ivies included). Holy Cross has a great alumni network that includes alumni clubs focused on Wall Street, high tech, finance, etc.</p>

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<p>Wharton school at Penn</p>

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<p>looked at babson when I was in MA really nice campus but also very small like only 2 k students cliches as well</p>

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<p>Entrepreneurs=Stanford above all. CEO=Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth. CCers will come out in droves to tell you most CEOs didn’t attend ivies. This is true, but on a per capita basis, little Dartmouth probably wins with Harvard and Princeton close.</p>

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<p>Any college that helps you develop critical thinking skills. Which is almost any college, provided you decide that you’re there to get a real education and not just a degree. </p>

<p>It also appears that it doesn’t really matter all that much what you major in:</p>

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<p><a href=“http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs333tot.pdf[/url]”>http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs333tot.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Here’s a [thread](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1251159-universities-most-graduates-running-companies-wall-street-journal.html?highlight=graduates+ipo”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1251159-universities-most-graduates-running-companies-wall-street-journal.html?highlight=graduates+ipo&lt;/a&gt;) on counts of college grads whose companies went public in the early part of 2011.</p>

<p>Unlike RML’s comment, UCLA grads are involved in these things, and Indiana’s grads are also. IUB has one of the top business entrepreneurial majors in the country. Think Mark Cuban.</p>

<p>… And despite informational’s chiding of the OP for daring to misname the topic.</p>

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<p>And the link in OP’s was apparently from WSJ and reverted to subscription status, older article.</p>

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<p>Take a look at some of the schools that produced some of the best venture capitalists (I.E. people who fund start ups/usually have created their own start ups).</p>

<p>[The</a> Education of Venture Capitalists: Midas List 2012 Edition - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/truebridge/2012/05/01/the-education-of-venture-capitalists-midas-list-2012-edition/]The”>The Education of Venture Capitalists: Midas List 2012 Edition)</p>

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<p>whether it is accurate or not -
University of Utah claims to have the highest ratio of start-ups…i know they definitely have a strong focus in this area with specific education, clubs, etc all supporting entrepreneurship…</p>

<p>There is a focus on market driven research. For instance, their BioMedical Engineering is developing another artificial heart, kidneys, etc that have a built in market…</p>

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<p>An article back in October re connection between Wesleyan’s ambient student culture and the world of venture capital:
[How</a> Wesleyan’s Counter Culture Came To Rule New York’s Tech Scene | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.](<a href=“Business News & Current Events | Observer”>Business News & Current Events | Observer)</p>

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<p>Stanford!!</p>

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<p>Northwestern is probably one of the places worth looking into.<br>
[The</a> Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.cei.northwestern.edu/index.html]The”>http://www.cei.northwestern.edu/index.html)</p>

<p>This year, their team dominated the world’s richest and largest business plan competition
[2012</a> Rice Business Plan Competition Awards $1.55 Million in Prizes ? Richest Ever : Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship - Rice University](<a href=“http://rbpc.rice.edu/RBPC2012_Winners_PressRelease/]2012”>http://rbpc.rice.edu/RBPC2012_Winners_PressRelease/)</p>

<p>NUvention was named “Best Courses in 2011” by Inc. magazine
[Best</a> Courses 2011: NUvention at Northwestern University | Inc.com](<a href=“http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110401/best-courses-2011-nuvention-at-northwestern-university.html]Best”>http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110401/best-courses-2011-nuvention-at-northwestern-university.html)</p>

<p>In 2009, two NU programs were named as two of the “World’s Best Design Schools” by Business Week magazine. They were among 32 chosen worldwide, and Northwestern was the only institution to have two programs in the list.
[World’s</a> Best Design Schools: Northwestern University - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0930_worlds_best_design_schools/18.htm]World’s”>http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0930_worlds_best_design_schools/18.htm)</p>

<p>If you are a prospective engineering student, definitely check out their engineering school. It has a huge emphasis on design, more than most other schools. In fact, designing products for real world clients is required for all engineering freshmen.

[Design</a> | McCormick School of Engineering | Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research/about/design.html]Design”>http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research/about/design.html)</p>

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<p>Most CEOs started their careers in entry-level positions. There are a few esceptions, such as Michael Dell and Bill Gates, who started a business from scratch.</p>

<p>There are founder-CEOs who bring in more experienced hands to run the business after it had grown beyond their ability to manage it.</p>

<p>There are probably more founder-CEOs who went to Stanford than anywhere else. I’ve read that people who who enter established businesses and then rise to CEO are likely to have gone to schools with large student bodies. Cornell and Penn State were well prepresented one list of CEOs I recall having seen.</p>

<p>Graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton who are old enough to be CEOS are more likely to take advantage of opportunities that are more lucrative out of the gate (in finance, medicine, or law) that reliably led to substantial remuneration, but were less likely to lead to a position in corporate management.</p>