A new study of successfully funded startups reveals which US universities produce the most startup entrepreneurs.

Stanford University produces the most venture capital backed startup founders in the US, according to research by tech blogger Max Woolf.

Using data aggregated from deal tracker Crunchbase, Woolf obtained information on around 2,500 startup founders in the US which had received backing from venture capitalists, and where those founders went to university.

Rather unsurprisingly, the Silicon Valley-based Stanford came top of the list with 193 founders. The top ten looks like this:

  1. Stanford – 193
  2. Harvard -120
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 99
  4. University of California Berkeley – 85
  5. University of Pennsylvania – 57
  6. Cornell University – 49
  7. Yale University – 42
  8. University of Columbia – 42
  9. University of Michigan – 41
  10. University of Southern California – 38

Interestingly, Israel-based Tel Aviv University also made Woolf’s list at 15th, tied with Duke University, with 21.

Woolf also created a list of the top 10 universities based on the cumulative venture capital amount raised by their startups, which changed the line-up somewhat:

  1. Harvard – $4.1bn ($2.3bn of which is Facebook)
  2. Stanford – $3.7bn
  3. University of California Berkeley – $2.7bn
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – $1.6bn
  5. Princeton University – $600m
  6. University of Michigan – $600m
  7. University of Southern California – $600m
  8. Yale University – $500m
  9. Cornell University – $500m
  10. Carnegie Mellon University – $500m

Finally, Woolf’s data allowed him to create a list of the average sum raised by graduates from venture capitalists in the first round of funding, demonstrating where in the US startup entrepreneurs with big ambitions may want to graduate from:

  1. Carnegie Mellon University  – $12m
  2. Princeton University – $11.4m
  3. University of California Los Angeles – $8.6m
  4. Tel Aviv University – $5.5m
  5. Harvard – $5.1m
  6. Stanford – $5.1m
  7. University of Southern California – $4.9m
  8. University of Michigan – $4.1m
  9. Yale University – $4.1m
  10. University of Pennsylvania – $4m