Unimpressed by data presentation, with different entries for: "Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management; MIT - Sloan School of Management; and MIT". Similar overlap for most other institutions on the list. If I was writing a blog post that was going to offer raw data for $4.99 and advertise an AI-driven data analytics product, I'd at least present well curated data in my Figure 1. But maybe that's why I'm still in academia and not in a startup....
Some of these comments are sound like they were made by high schoolers who think HYPSM or bust. CMU has one of the most rigorous CS/engineering programs.<p>While the top 5% of Stanford grads might be "better" due to how selective they are. But I'd bet the median CMU CS major knows more, programs better etc. Simply because Stanford has a high percent of legacy, athlete, and moneyed international students that buy in. Whereas anecdotally, while CMU students are less well-rounded, those students are serious grinders.<p>If anything, this is proof that prestige, not talent, and who you know matters most. I've heard of several start ups with mostly Berkley/UC grads and one Stanford grad, and they always introduce him first for pitches.
It looks like there's a lot of correlation between the location of the school and the amount of VC funding associated with the location. Yes, it leans heavily towards elite schools but especially towards elite schools in (or in the orbit of) Silicon Valley, Boston/Cambridge, and NYC. (Schools like Yale, Princeton, and Cornell are obviously not in NYC but I'd consider them most associated with it.)
I'm the OP of this post. Not sure why this is being flagged.<p>Yes I do agree that I could have done a better job at removing duplicates like "UC Berkeley" and "University of California, Berkeley" from the figure but the key takeaway wouldn't have changed.
Likely more related to West Coast and SV culture and proximity than anything else. The East generally doesn’t invest like SV. Note: I’m an early stage investor from the East Coast.
In other news, Stanford is one of the four best undergraduate programs and Carnegie Mellon is... not.<p>Don't get me wrong, CMU has a great computer science <i>faculty</i>, but looking at random CMU alumni doesn't tell you much because a random CMU grad isn't that different from a random Georgetown grad.