The Best Schools For Female Founders According To The Knowledge Graph

Upon seeing Crunchbase’s annual ranking of the best schools for graduating entrepreneurs, we wanted to see how our Knowledge Graph results stack up.

The Diffbot Knowledge Graph is sourced from crawling a majority of the web and extracting entities and facts using NLP and machine vision.

Two prominent entity types are person and organization entities. When paired together powerful observations sourced from across the web are possible. In this exploration we returned all person entities within the Knowledge Graph who are currently founders and who are female. We filtered to make sure each organization had at least some publicly disclosed funding, and then we took a look at a summary view of which schools these founders had attended. You can check out the Knowledge Graph query here with a free trial.

While the top schools for female founders were consistent with Crunchbase’s coverage, you may wonder why the numbers vary so dramatically. Crunchbase’s ranking this year was looking at 2019-2020 graduates, and Crunchbase’s data is centered around tech and startup firmographics. While Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph certainly has firmographic details on tech-centered companies, our database of organizations is much wider ranging (over 250M+ orgs at last count). This means our list includes founders of all sorts of endeavors: non-profits, artistic organizations, medical organizations, and tech companies to name a few.

The 80+ Top Schools For Female Founders

1.) Stanford University – 612 female current founder graduates
2.) Harvard University – 600 female current founder graduates
3.) University Of California Berkeley – 372 female current founder graduates
4.) University Of Pennsylvania – 365 female current founder graduates
5.) Massachusetts Institute Of Technology – 336 female current founder graduates
6.) New York University – 237 female current founder graduates
6.) Columbia University – 237 female current founder graduates
8.) University Of Oxford – 194 female current founder graduates
9.) Cornell University – 167 female current founder graduates
10.) UCLA – 163 female current founder graduates
11.) Northwestern University – 148 female current founder graduates
12.) University Of Southern California – 126 female current founder graduates
13.) University Of Cambridge – 120 female current founder graduates
14.) London School Of Economics And Political Science – 113 female current founder graduates
14.) Yale University – 113 female current founder graduates
16.) University Of Michigan – 103 female current founder graduates
17.) Boston University – 97 female current founder graduates
18.) University Of Washington – 94 female current founder graduates
19.) Tel Aviv University – 91 female current founder graduates
20.) Princeton University – 86 female current founder graduates
21.) University Of Chicago – 85 female current founder graduates
22.) University Of Illinois – 83 female current founder graduates
23.) University Of Colorado – 81 female current founder graduates
24.) The University Of Texas At Austin – 79 female current founder graduates
25.) Brown University – 78 female current founder graduates
25.) University Of Toronto – 78 female current founder graduates
27.) Mcgill University – 77 female current founder graduates
28.) Carnegie Mellon University – 76 female current founder graduates
29.) University College London – 74 female current founder graduates
30.) Duke University – 72 female current founder graduates
31.) Georgetown University – 69 female current founder graduates
32.) UC San Diego – 65 female current founder graduates
33.) Insead – 63 female current founder graduates
34.) HEC Paris – 62 female current founder graduates
35.) University Of Virginia – 61 female current founder graduates
36.) Pennsylvania State University – 59 female current founder graduates
37.) University Of British Columbia – 57 female current founder graduates
38.) Dartmouth College – 55 female current founder graduates
39.) University Of Maryland – 53 female current founder graduates
40.) University Of Wisconsin-Madison – 52 female current founder graduates
41.) Tufts University – 50 female current founder graduates
42.) Arizona State University – 49 female current founder graduates
42.) University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill – 49 female current founder graduates
42.) University Of Waterloo – 49 female current founder graduates
45.) Georgia Institute Of Tech – 48 female current founder graduates
45.) Imperial College London – 48 female current founder graduates
45.) London Business School – 48 female current founder graduates
45.) Washington University – 48 female current founder graduates
49.) George Washington University – 45 female current founder graduates
49.) Hebrew University Of Jerusalem – 45 female current founder graduates
49.) Johns Hopkins University – 45 female current founder graduates
52.) Purdue University – 44 female current founder graduates
53.) Technion Israel Institute Of Technology – 43 female current founder graduates
53.) Tsinghua University – 43 female current founder graduates
53.) University Of Florida – 43 female current founder graduates
53.) University Of Melbourne – 43 female current founder graduates
57.) Bocconi – 42 female current founder graduates
57.) University Of Mumbai – 42 female current founder graduates
59.) Northeastern University – 41 female current founder graduates
60.) Copenhagen Business School – 40 female current founder graduates
60.) King’s College London – 40 female current founder graduates
60.) Peking University – 40 female current founder graduates
63.) University Of Arizona – 39 female current founder graduates
63.) Vanderbilt University – 39 female current founder graduates
65.) Paris Institute Of Political Studies – 38 female current founder graduates
66.) Boston College – 37 female current founder graduates
66.) Politecnico Di Milano – 37 female current founder graduates
68.) Escp Europe – 36 female current founder graduates
69.) Michigan State University – 35 female current founder graduates
69.) National University Of Singapore – 35 female current founder graduates
69.) Texas A&M University – 35 female current founder graduates
69.) University Of Michigan Ross School Of Business – 35 female current founder graduates
69.) University Of The Arts London – 35 female current founder graduates
74.) Babson College – 34 female current founder graduates
74.) Delhi University – 34 female current founder graduates
76.) Fundação Getúlio Vargas – 33 female current founder graduates
76.) Santa Clara University – 33 female current founder graduates
78.) Brigham Young University (Byu) – 32 female current founder graduates
78.) Esade – 32 female current founder graduates
78.) Queen’s University – 32 female current founder graduates
78.) UC Davis – 32 female current founder graduates
78.) Western University – 32 female current founder graduates