These 11 Colleges Have Minted A Ton Of Successful Tech Executives

Though many of tech's most successful entrepreneurs are college dropouts - Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell, just to name a few - a degree can goes long way when it comes to starting a business.

Whether it's because of a strong business and engineering curriculum or a helpful alumni network, some top universities tend to produce more tech executives than others.

We've rounded up some of the most powerful schools for tech here.

To compile the list, we looked at the alma maters of executives of large tech companies like Cisco and Microsoft, as well as young startups like Snapchat and Instagram. We also looked at rankings of schools with the most grads who have gone on to be CEOs of major tech companies and those that have the most venture capital-backed startups.