<p>I am a Petroleum Engineering student with 3 years left and I intend on going to a Top MBA Program a few years after I graduate. I want to either move into consulting or an upper management position within a company. However, I am now reading about engineering students going into venture capital and I am now pretty interested in pursuing that path. My question is, do they aim for certain kinds of engineers or are they just looking for people in the engineering field? I am somewhat nervous that my major is too specific. And also are there particular MBA Programs they mainly select from or are the top 5-10 pretty well represented?</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton, in that order, are the top three MBA programs that top VCs tend to come from. And they are disproportionately represented (so no, the top 5-10 programs are not equally well represented). Among these 3 programs, it is also nowhere near even–I recently read a book that listed what percent of a list of top VCs had come from each program, and it went something like 36%, 16%, 7% respectively.</p>
<p>oopsnevermind, if you adjust for the fact that Stanford has less than 1/2 the students than Harvard, the per student figures are a lot closer between these two top MBA programs.</p>
<p>Ok thanks to the both of you. Im really interested in my possibilities with an MBA after my Engineering undergrad so if anyone else has comments they are welcome as well.</p>
<p>isn’t VC dead?</p>
<p>Not sure. I was just trying to get Information on my Options after getting my MBA and I knew that VC was mentioned as one, but others are welcome as well.</p>
<p>VC is far from dead. It depends on the type of VC, the VC strategy and where.</p>
<p>Venture Captial dead?</p>
<p>nope:</p>
<p>[Venture</a> capital: Investments in California gain steam - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-venture-20100719,0,4566630.story]Venture”>Venture capital funding in California gains steam)</p>
<p>Funny the WSJ has the diametric opposite view <a href=“article%20published%20on%20the%20same%20day%20no%20less%2019%20July”>I</a>*:</p>
<p>[HEARD</a> ON THE STREET: Venture Capital Could Shrivel Away - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704229004575371533586548818.html?KEYWORDS=]HEARD”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704229004575371533586548818.html?KEYWORDS=)</p>
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