If you’re going to college to be an entrepreneur, it helps to be near Silicon Valley. Alumni of Stanford University in Berkeley, CA, managed to nab $4.1 billion of funding in 203 startups from 2007 to 2011, with DFJ and Kleiner Perkins leading the funding parade.

On the East Coast, Harvard follows Stanford with $3.8 billion invested in 112 alumni startups, but if you eliminate Facebook, which is an outlier, Harvard drops to $1.8 billion.

Here’s an infographic from AccountingDegree.com that takes a look at Stanford, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and M.I.T. in terms of how well their alumni fare in getting startups funded.

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