Top 25 MBAs for Entrepreneurs
Harvard, Penn and Stanford lead all MBA programs in entrepreneurial capital raised and number of companies founded that received venture funding, as shown in this horizontal bar chart with data columns. MIT Sloan, Columbia and INSEAD round out the top 5. Data from Pitchbook were compiled in 2019 and include capital raised, number of companies founded and top company.
US MBA programs dominate the list. East and West coast universities far outnumber schools in the rest of the US. Two British universities, one in France and one in Israel round out the list.
Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs in a Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Columns
How I Made this Horizontal Bar Chart with Data Columns
The data for this chart is presented below:
Here's how I made the horizontal bar chart with data columns:
- download the data from Pitchbook into Excel
- create a horizontal stacked bar chart in PowerPoint based on the top 25 MBA program data in the xlsx
- use the Switch Bars and Series button to treat spreadsheet columns as series and rows as bars
- add columns for the four regional categories (East Coast, West Coast, Rest of US, Rest of World)
- copy data from the capital raised column to the appropriate regional column for each university
- add the data column with the top company and its value
- use Bars and Series dialog to indicate that the regional categories should appear on the chart and that the number of companies and top company column should appear as data columns
- format bar totals (capital raised values) as $B
- add axis title, hide rest of y axis and x axis line
- reduce bar gaps to make bars wider
- adjust internal chart margins to provide room for long series names and wide data columns
- reduce font size of labels to improve look of chart
- add legend and move to white space near bottom of chart
- change colors of the series
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