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One of our fellow posters here passed along some interesting advice to me and others a while back - on looking at the best schools for switching careers into VC, they suggested looking at top VC firms and where they went to school.

Here are my findings....I thought I would share with everyone.

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I surveyed 840 partners at top VC firms throughout US. Here is the breakdown by school.

Harvard: 57
Wharton: 36
Stanford GSB: 32
Columbia: 21
Chicago Booth: 16
Kellogg: 14
NYU Stern: 9
UC Berkeley: 9
Duke Fuqua: 7
Yale SOM: 6
Virginia Darden: 5
Michigan: 5
UNC Kenan Flagler: 5
Dartmouth Tuck: 5
Cornell: 4
UCLA: 4
MIT: 4
INSEAD: 4
Washington Olin: 4
USC: 3
UC Santa Clara: 3
Texas McCombs: 3
Pittsburgh Katz: 3
Boston University: 2
Tulane: 2
LSE: 2
Rochester: 2
Quinnipiac: 2
Georgetown: 2
Carnegie Mellon: 2


1 Each: Emory, Temple, Montana, Miami, Oregon, GWU, Case Western, Thunderbird, Baltimore, Pepperdine, Hartford, St. Josephs, RPI, HEC, Gonzaga, Maryland, Fordham, Rice, Saint Louis, Southern Illinois, Indiana, Connecticut, Massachusetts, BYU, Ivey, York, West Chester


Other graduate degrees: 144
Undergrad degrees: 123