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By Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Stanford University alumni with entrepreneurial streaks may be particularly well placed to pay off their $41,250 tuition bills, according to a new report on venture funding.
Companies run by Stanford alumni raised $4.1 billion across more than 200 financings in the five years from 2007 to 2011, according to CB Insights, a consultancy.
That compares to $3.8 billion by Harvard alumni, whose rank was boosted by former student Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, CB Insights said. University of California at Berkeley alumni raised $1.3 billion; New York University and University of Pennsylvania alumni raised $1.2 billion each; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni raised $1 billion.
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