( . . . well at least according to professional bio info available in PEdatabase).

Everyone loves rankings and so to help satisfy demand, we thought we’d conduct informal searches of professional bios listed within Private Equity Database and look at which schools tend to deliver when it comes to placement within private equity.

As far as which universities to query, we decided to favor schools with strong graduate business programs and used the top 25 schools listed in US News’ 2008 Graduate Business School Report as a basis for creating the list.    Keep in mind that the list below is based on number of mentions with no distinction between graduate or undergraduate degrees.

Rank by # of Mentions in PEdatabase	School	Query
1	Harvard University	“harvard”
2	University of Pennsylvania	“university of pennsylvania”
3	Stanford University	“stanford”
4	University of Chicago	“university of chicago”
5	Northwestern University	“northwestern”
6	New York University	“new york university”, “nyu”
7	University of Virginia	“university of virginia”
8	Dartmouth College	“dartmouth”
9	Columbia University	“Columbia University”
10	Yale University	“yale”
11	Duke University	“duke”
12	University of Michigan	“university of michigan”
13	Cornell University	“cornell”
14	Georgetown University	“georgetown”
15	University of California, Los Angeles	“university of california” AND los angeles, “ucla”
16	University of California, Berkeley	“berkeley”
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	“massachusetts institute of technology”
18	University of Texas, Austin	“university of texas” AND austin
19	University of Southern California	“university of southern california”, “usc”
20	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“university of north carolina” AND chapel
21	Indiana University	“indiana university”
22	Emory University	“emory”
23	University of Rochester	“univeristy of rochester”
24	Carnegie Mellon University	“carnegie mellon”
25	Arizona State University	“arizona state”

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