While Peter Thiel is famous for paying wanna-be entrepreneurs not to go to college, there are still thousands of founders who do go to college and go on to form well-funded companies.
But there are some schools who tend to churn out more venture-backed founders than others.
In its 2016 report, PitchBook analyzed 10 years of startup data to determine which schools produce the most startup founders who go on to raise money from investors.
The data only takes into account whether the entrepreneur attended a school — so college drop outs are included in the count. (After all, it's a popular Silicon Valley thing to do).
Here are the 17 schools that spawned the most VC-backed founders over the last decade, ranked:
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17. Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Entrepreneur count: 378
Company count: 324
Capital raised: $4.6 billion
16. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Haifa, Israel
Entrepreneur count: 379
Company count: 323
Capital raised: $4.8 billion
15. University of Southern California (USC)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Entrepreneur count: 381
Company count: 341
Capital raised: $3.5 billion
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