In a recent exploration of the educational backgrounds of professional venture capital investors for Crunchbase News, here’s what we found:
- Investment partners at VC firms, themselves a small and exclusive coterie, tend to call an equally tight-knit group of colleges their alma mater. In a finding that will shock almost nobody, Ivy League and Ivy-Plus schools are heavily favored in the top rankings.
- 73 percent of the investment partners had some sort of graduate education. An impressive 16 percent of the population we analyzed held an MD, PhD, or equivalent doctoral degree.
- By just the barest margin, a majority (51 percent) of the investment partners in our dataset held an MBA.
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