Female startup founders face well-documented challenges in their entrepreneurial journeys, and attending a university with a strong network of venture-backed founders is one strategy to improve the odds of success.

PitchBook's annual university rankings compare schools by tallying up the number of alumni entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital in the last decade. The rankings are powered by PitchBook data and are based on an analysis of more than 150,000 VC-backed founders.

The Female Founders list is below, broken down by undergraduate, graduate and MBA programs, with filters for school size, location and public or private funding status. We have also published lists for Global Universities and European Universities.
 

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