10 Universities That Have Produced Successful Tech Executives
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siliconindia | Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 19:28 IST
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. MIT's early emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research has helped the institution to build strong entrepreneurial culture.
MIT which is one of the most selective higher learning institutions has produced many eminent executives and according to a study by Bloomberg, 4 former MIT students have gone on to become CEOs of tech companies with market capitalizations of more than $1 billion. Among the school's famous alumni are Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, as well as numerous Google executives.
University Of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, also referred as Penn, is an American private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, it is one of the nine original Colonial Colleges with highly selective admissions and has a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship.
The Grads of Penn's Wharton School of Business, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have played a significant role in New York City's startup prospect and many of them like Thrillist's Ben Lerer and TechStars' Dave Tisch, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner are among the top grds who have hailed from Penn University.
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