Superscout Founder Universities Index

Superscout Founder Universities Index

Which universities produce founders?

Universities ranked by what they give founders: how many venture-backed founders they produce, and the research and standing behind them.

University of California appears as one system because several source rankings list it that way.

Rank	Name	Score	PitchBook undergrad25%	PitchBook graduate20%	ARWU15%	Nature Index10%	QS10%	THE10%	U.S. News10%
1	Stanford University	84.9	#2	#12026	#2	#12	=2	=5	#3
2	Harvard University	78.7	#3	#22026	#1	#2	#5	=5	#1
3	University of California	70.8	#1	#52024	#5	#32	=20	#9	#7
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	65.8	#5	#32026	#3	#17	#1	#2	#2
5	UOUniversity of Pennsylvania	56.5	#6	#6	=14	#42	#15	#14	=17
6	CUCornell University	54.8	#4	=16	#12	#48	=16	=18	#13
7	University of Oxford	54.7	=51	#8	#7	#28	#4	#1	#4
8	University of Cambridge	53.5	#55	#7	#4	#30	#6	=3	#5
9	Tsinghua University	49.4	#26	#23	#18	#3	#14	#12	#6
10	Yale University	49.2	#13	#24	#11	#40	=16	#10	#8

Each source column shows the position in that publisher’s own ranking. Select a ranking to read how it works, or a position to open the original list. An older edition is labeled when the latest one omits an entry.