Oxford is among the UK’s top universities for female entrepreneurs

Female alumni from the top 10 universities in the ranking have between them raised £2.6bn. Of this, £581.7m was raised by 45 women entrepreneurs who graduated from Oxford. 

Cambridge came top, with 46 women founders raising £604.5m. 

Ana Bakshi, director of Oxford Foundry, which supports Oxford University students and alumni entrepreneurs, said in an interview with Forbes magazine: “The Oxford and UK ecosystem around entrepreneurship and innovation is stronger than ever before.” 

The study found that engineering was the most popular subject among respondents who declared their degrees, closely followed by finance. 

Yet the most valuable subject in terms of average sums raised was English, as women who studied the subject raised an average of £33.6m funding. 

London was the top location by far, with a combined total of funding raised at £3.6bn. The research was based on data held in the Crunchbase database.

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