University of Maryland ranked #2 for Technology Entrepreneurship

With 18 start up founders, and a median capital per founder of over ten and a quarter million dollars, University of Maryland students found formidable, high achieving tech startups.

Dominating the Ivy League universities, Stanford and Caltech, the University of Maryland ranked #2 in a recent ranking of universities by their technology entrepreneurship. Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of startup accelerator StartEngine and senior VP at Disney Interactive Media Group, the 2013 StartEngine College Index ranks universities by their number of technical startup founders and median investment per founder. These are the schools that “investors should be frequenting and making angel investments in,” says Marks.

Have great ideas and an entrepreneurial streak? Sign up for CMSC198J-Introduction To Javascript Programming this winter or CMSC122 – Introduction to Programming Via the Web in the spring. Trying your hand at programming will make you more attractive to employers, and you just might be the next Sergey Brin (founder of Google) or Pooja Nath (founder of Piazza).

Learn More:

• Visit the computer science department website
• In The Capital article about UMCP Ranking
• StartEngine College Index Methodology 

Submitted By Elissa Redmiles