Stanford University has been ranked no. one on Forbes’s 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list for the second time. Forbes ranked the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities based on their entrepreneurial ratios, the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the school’s combined graduate and undergraduate student body.
Some of the most famous graduates from Stanford include, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Jeffrey Bewkes (Time Warner), Reed Hastings (Netflix), William Hewlett and David Packard (Hewlett-Packard), Konstantin Guericke and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Phil Knight (Nike), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo), Scott McNealy, Charles R. Schwab, (Charles Schwab Corp.), Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram), Peter Thiel (PayPal) and Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo).
The top 20 most entrepreneurial schools ranked by Forbes are:
1 Stanford University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 University of California, Berkeley
4 Cornell University
5 University of California, Los Angeles
6 California Institute of Technology
7 Brown University
8 Princeton University
9 Pepperdine University
10 Dartmouth College
11 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
12 Yale University
13 Clark University
14 Syracuse University
15 Southern Methodist University
16 New York University
17 Howard University
18 San Diego State University
19 University of Colorado, Boulder
20 University of California, Santa Barbara
Forbes also ranked Stanford University no. two overall, no. two in private colleges, no. one in research universities and no. one in the west. Forbes also gave the university an A+ in its financial grade.