培养最多创业者的大学 Forbes: America's Most Entrepreneurial Universities
Startup Schools: America's Most Entrepreneurial UniversitiesThis story appears in the August 18, 2014 issue of Forbes.For the second time, Stanford University out-muscled its East Coast rivals to top the FORBES 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list. Silicon Valley’s reach has extended across California, as the state’s schools took over half of this year’s top ten spots.FORBES ranked the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities based on their entrepreneurial ratios – the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves as founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the school’s total student body (undergraduate and graduate combined).Here are the highlights of the top 20 start-up schools on our list:1 Stanford UniversityIts entrepreneurs don’t always wait for degrees. Among its famous dropouts:Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and David Filo; and Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel.2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIts student-run $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has led to the creation of more than 130 companies and 2,500 jobs.3 University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley has three startup incubators on campus, including SkyDeck, a joint effort of the university’s research office and its business and engineering schools.4 Cornell UniversityFounded in 2001, the Cornell Entrepreneur Network has organized hundreds of events for about 20,000 alumni, students, staff, parents and friends (read my colleague Natalie Robehmed’s profile on Cornell).5 University of California, Los AngelesState school UCLA hosted 4,000 developers
in April for the second annual LA Hacks hackathon.6 California Institute of TechnologyCaltech boasts 32 alumni and faculty Nobel laureates despite a total student body of fewer than 2,300 in Pasadena.7 Brown University
Popular professor Barrett Hazeltine has been teaching entrepreneurship and engineering for about half a century. Former students include the founders of Nantucket Nectars.8 Princeton UniversitySumma cum laude grad Jeff Bezos was president of its Students for the Exploration & Development of Space. He donated $15 million to build its neuroscience research center.9 Pepperdine UniversityAssociated with the Churches of Christ, this private school in California counts among its alums eHarmony founder Neil Clark Warren.10 Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth’s Entrepreneurial Network (DEN) has provided support for over 500 projects and companies since 2001.11 Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRPI, established in Troy, N.Y. in 1824, claims to be the oldest science and technology school in the English-speaking world.12 Yale UniversityTelecom mogul John Malone got his start as an electrical engineering student at Yale; he has since donated $74 million to the engineering school.13 Clark UniversityMatthew Goldman turned his economic lessons at Clark into Blue Man Group, now a multimillion-dollar show across the country that he cofounded.14 Syracuse UniversityPrivate equity titan Daniel D’Aniello, a magna cum laude graduate, funds an internship program that gives 20 students hands-on entrepreneurial experience each year.15 Southern Methodist University
Selected students at SMU’s business school gain firsthand venture capital experience by running the Cox MBA Venture Fund.16 New York UniversityNYU will open a 5,900-square-foot Entrepreneurs Lab in the heart of Greenwich Village this fall for students to exchange ideas.17 Howard UniversitySean “Diddy” Combs got his honorary doctorate degree earlier this year almost 25 years after dropping out of the school to build his music empire.18 San Diego State UniversityRubio’s Grill cofounder Ralph Rubio enjoyed his first fish taco while on spring break from SDSU; the company now has more than 190 restaurants nationwide.19 University of Colorado, BoulderThe university got a $4 million grant from Blackstone Group to build an entrepreneurs network for the state.20 University of California, Santa BarbaraIn July UCSB and the nearby city of Goleta opened a 4,500-square-foot incubator in Oldtown Goleta.The rest of the top 50 universities are:21 University of San Francisco22 University of Southern California23 The University of Texas at Austin24 Carnegie Mellon University25 University of Miami26 Northwestern University27 University of Denver28 Boston University29 American University30 Brigham Young University31 Miami University-Oxford32 Brandeis University33 Florida Institute of Technology34 Harvard University35 University of Maryland-College Park36 Hofstra University37 Southern Illinois University Carbondale38 University of Tulsa39 Tufts University40 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor41 University of Notre Dame42 University of Pennsylvania43 University of Washington-Seattle44 Clarkson University45 Lehigh University46 Pennsylvania State University47 University of San Diego48 Boston College49 Colorado State University50 Rice University
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