Top 10 Colleges for Tech CEOs – By Bloomberg Rankings – Aug 29, 2013
“Revenge of the Nerds” – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have shown that you don’t need to graduate from college in order to lead a giant technology company. But they’re the exceptions.
Bloomberg Rankings analyzed the alma maters of 250 chief executive officers of U.S. tech companies with a market value of more than $1 billion. The Ivy Leagues placed high on the list of undergraduate schools, including a certain New England university that Gates and Zuckerberg didn’t bother to finish.
Here are the top 10 undergrad colleges where tech CEOs studied, coded and coded some more….
http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2013-08-29/top-10-colleges-for-tech-ceos.html
Philosémitisme: “Technion parmi les “TOP 10 Colleges for Tech CEOs” – Bravo Israël. [Source: Amizade Luso-Israelita]
Top 10 Colleges for Tech CEO – Classement Bloomberg:
Princeton University
Harvard University
Stanford University
University of California
University of Michigan
Marquette University
Massachusetts Institute
Rice University
Technion-Israel Institute
University of Texas-Austin
“7. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Tied [1])
Israel is now home to one of the world’s top tech hubs, and Technion is where many of the country’s brightest go to train. To prove its commitment to technology, the school is collaborating with Cornell on a plan to build a $2 billion tech campus and startup incubator on New York City’s Roosevelt Island [Fabuleux: le Technion et l’Université Cornell établissent un centre de recherche à New York]. Stratasys CEO David Reis is one notable Technion alumnus. His 3-D printer maker acquired New York-based MakerBot Industries for at least $403 million earlier this year.”
[1] ex aequo avec University of Texas (Austin), Rice University et Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://philosemitismeblog.blogspot.be/2013/09/technion-parmi-les-top-10-colleges-for.html
Bloomber / Philosémitisme – foto: Technion via Blommberg