Carnegie Mellon is consistently ranked one of the best engineering programs in the country, so it makes sense that many of the school's graduates would go on to successful careers in tech.
Notable alumni include former Cisco VP Frank Marshall and Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla.
Houston's Rice University has had its fair share of successful tech grads. According to Bloomberg, four Rice alumni have gone on to lead tech companies worth more than $1 billion.
One of Rice's most notable grads is legendary Silicon Valley investor John Doerr, who's invested in Amazon, Google, Coursera, Flipboard, and Twitter, among others.
Cornell is in the process of opening a new school for entrepreneurship and technology that it hopes will help position New York City as a center for startups and innovation.
Cornell already has a healthy startup scene, having served as the home base for Hotels.com founder David Litman, Palm founder Jeff Hawkins, Wanelo founder Deena Varshavskaya, and Priceline.com founder Jay Walker.
Yale's strong alumni network has helped entrepreneurs like 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann go on to successful careers in tech.
Former Palm CEO Donna Dubinsky, Gilt Groupe founder Kevin Ryan, and Electronic Arts cofounder Bing Gordon also completed their undergraduate degrees at Yale.
It should come as no surprise that MIT grads have made major contributions to America's tech industry. According to a study by Bloomberg, 4 former MIT students have gone on to become CEOs of tech companies with market capitalizations of more than $1 billion.
Among the school's famous alumni are Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Qualcomm cofounder Irwin Jacobs, as well as numerous Google executives.
Grads of UPenn's Wharton School of Business and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have played a significant role in New York City's startup scene. Many of them were frat boys, too, like Thrillist's Ben Lerer and TechStars' Dave Tisch.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner are also UPenn grads.
Though Ann Arbor is pretty far from Silicon Valley, the University of Michigan has produced plenty of successful tech executives.
Google cofounder Larry Page, Groupon CEO Eric Lefkofsky, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström are some of the university's biggest success stories.
Harvard is one of the oldest and most selective colleges in the country, and it has yielded a total of 7 billionaire tech CEOs, according to Bloomberg.
Mark Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook in a Harvard dorm before dropping out of school in 2004. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is another famous Harvard dropout.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, and Sun Microsystems cofounder Scott McNealy all earned degrees from Harvard before going on to make major contributions to the tech industry.
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is perhaps UC Berkeley's most famous tech alum, but the school has also been home to plenty of other successful entrepreneurs.
Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, MySpace cofounder Tom Andersen, and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs all have undergraduate degrees from Berkeley. Google chairman Eric Schmidt also earned his master's in design here.
According to a ranking by Bloomberg, Princeton is the country's top school for producing CEOs of tech companies with market capitalizations of more than $1 billion.
Eight Princeton grads have served as CEOs of major U.S. tech companies, including Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, HP head Meg Whitman, and former Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy. Google chairman Eric Schmidt also attended Princeton, earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1976.
Princeton may have the most grads going on to serve as CEOs of tech companies, but it's hard to argue with Stanford's long tech tradition and proximity to Silicon Valley.
From HP's William Hewlett and Dave Packard to Snapchat's Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, many founding stories of major tech companies have centered on Stanford's Palo Alto campus.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, and Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom all have undergraduate degrees from Stanford. An additional 17 tech CEOs have graduate degrees from the school.
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