????又到了返校季，有一個問題值得我們探討：哪些頂尖大學(xué)能夠給女學(xué)生提供最好的跳板，讓她們在自己的公司中成為掌握最高權(quán)力的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者？

????在過去5年中，有40位斯坦福大學(xué)（Stanford University）女性本科畢業(yè)生創(chuàng)立了公司，并獲得了風(fēng)險投資基金的支持。根據(jù)向私募股權(quán)和風(fēng)投機(jī)構(gòu)提供研究服務(wù)的PitchBook公司的數(shù)據(jù)，這一數(shù)值超過其他頂尖大學(xué)。斯坦福校友近年來開設(shè)，并獲得風(fēng)投基金支持的公司包括家居裝飾網(wǎng)站One Kings Lane。其創(chuàng)立者為斯坦福畢業(yè)生蘇珊?費(fèi)爾德曼和艾莉森?平卡斯，后者是社交游戲商Zynga公司共同創(chuàng)始人馬克?平卡斯的妻子。此外，另一位曾入選《財富》“40位40歲以下商界精英”的斯坦福校友，星巴克公司（Starbuck）董事克拉拉?史密斯，與前微軟公司(Microsoft)工程師史蒂夫?加里蒂共同創(chuàng)立了社交媒體營銷管理服務(wù)公司Hearsay Social。

????就MBA項目而言，哈佛大學(xué)（Harvard）有56位女性畢業(yè)生在過去5年中創(chuàng)立公司，并受到風(fēng)投基金的支持，這在所有大學(xué)中名列第一。比如，哈佛大學(xué)MBA項目畢業(yè)生海莉?巴納和凱蒂婭?比徹姆創(chuàng)立了化妝品和裝飾品網(wǎng)站Birchbox，該公司在B輪融資中獲得了6,000萬美元。此外，卡特琳娜?雷克于2011年創(chuàng)立了女性個人造型網(wǎng)站Stitch Fix。這位創(chuàng)始人實際上在斯坦福和哈佛都拿到了學(xué)位。

????在2009年至今創(chuàng)立公司的女性本科畢業(yè)生榜單上，哈佛以29人名列第三，位列擁有31人的麻省理工學(xué)院（Massachusetts Institute of Technology）之后。而在PitchBook公司編撰的過去5年創(chuàng)立公司并獲得風(fēng)投基金支持的女性MBA榜單上，麻省理工學(xué)院以23人名列第三，落后于擁有31人的斯坦福大學(xué)。

????當(dāng)然，這三所大學(xué)并不只是培養(yǎng)女性企業(yè)家。PitchBook公司還編撰了一份榜單，來評估大學(xué)培養(yǎng)的公司創(chuàng)始人總數(shù)（不論性別）。在這份榜單上，斯坦福大學(xué)、哈佛大學(xué)和麻省理工學(xué)院均位列前五。斯坦福大學(xué)再次高居本科生榜單之首，而哈佛大學(xué)也再次成為MBA榜單的霸主。兩份榜單的結(jié)果證明，這些頂尖大學(xué)持續(xù)不斷地培養(yǎng)成功的企業(yè)家，不論性別。

????It’s back-to-school season, so it’s worth asking which top universities offer their female students the best springboard to a powerful position at the top of their own company?

????Over the past five years, 40 women with undergraduate degrees from Stanford University have received venture capital funding for companies they founded, more than any other top school, according to data from PitchBook, which provides research to private equity and venture capital firms. Among the companies founded by Stanford alums receiving venture capital funding in recent years is flash-sale style home decor website One Kings Lane, which was founded by Stanford grad Susan Feldman along with Alison Pincus, the wife of Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus. Another Stanford grad, Clara Shih — a former Fortune “40 Under 40″ member who also serves on Starbucks’ board — co-founded social media marketing management service Hearsay Social with former Microsoft engineer Steve Garrity.

????When it comes to MBA programs, Harvard tops the list with 56 female founders receiving funding over the past five years. Companies springing up recently that are led by female Harvard MBA’s include beauty and grooming products delivery service Birchbox, founded by Harvard MBAs Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, which recently raised $60 million in a Series B funding. Another company on the list is personal styling for women website Stitch Fix, which was founded in 2011 by Katrina Lake, who actually has degrees from both Stanford and Harvard.

????Harvard also came in third on the list of undergraduate programs with 29 female-founder alums dating back to 2009, finishing behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its 31 female founders during that same period. MIT finished third on PitchBook’s list of MBA programs with female alums receiving VC funding over the past five years. MIT had 23 during that period, behind Stanford’s 31.

????Of course, those three schools aren’t just churning out female entrepreneurs. Stanford, Harvard and MIT also placed in the top five (for both undergraduates and MBAs) in a separate PitchBook list ranking schools by the number of company founders of all genders that they produced. That the schools fared well on both lists — again, Stanford topped the undergraduate list, while Harvard’s MBA program topped its list — shows that these top schools are simply consistently producing successfully entrepreneurial graduates of all genders.