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The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools


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Harvard and Stanford may jump to mind when it comes to tech titans. Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg chose the former, and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin flocked to the latter. But for the next generation of entrepreneur, we may need to look outside the Ivy League. (Steve Jobs, of course, attended Reed College, but didn't graduate.)

The following list considered a variety of criteria, including ranking, research facilities, important technological discoveries, notable faculty and alumni, cost and relationships with the private sector. Is your school one of them?

  1. University of Texas at Austin
  2. University of Toronto
  3. Rochester Institute of Technology
  4. Georgia Institute of Technology
  5. Delft University of Technology
  6. Imperial College London
  7. Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  8. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  9. Montana State University
  10. University of California, Berkeley
  11. University of Melbourne
  12. Harvey Mudd College
  13. National University of Singapore

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