YouNoodle Publishes Top 10 Ranking of World’s Most Entrepreneurial Universities

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Some of the schools that placed in the top 10 of the YouNoodle university leaderboard were not surprises — institutions such as Stanford University and MIT that have notable roots in the startup ecosystem, for example. However, a number of prominent international universities also appear on the list. Schools such as IIT India, which ranked for its strong engineering programs and high level of technology innovation, and NUS Singapore, known for one of the biggest business plan competitions in Asia, indicate the direction of startup innovation in the future.


The complete list of schools is available at http://www.younoodle.com/topschools. Each university listing describes the resources available at each top university, showcases noteworthy startups that are emerging from the school, and profiles student leaders who are rising entrepreneurial stars.


The top-ranked schools include:

1. Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca., U.S.A.
2. MIT, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
3. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
4. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca., U.S.A.
5. IIT India
6. University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
7. NUS, Singapore
8. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
9. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
10. UC Davis, Davis, Ca., U.S.A.