Energy, Utilities contains public utilities and energy generating firms. Publishing, Schools links private schools and publishing companies. Drugs, Medical includes biotech companies, medical instruments, and medical practices. Software is self-explanatory Architecture includes architects and construction engineers Engineering Consulting includes all consulting firms that deal in engineering and physical science issues, including environment, process engineering, and advanced materials. Management Consulting includes all socioeconomic consulting, including management, marketing, and economics.
Finance includes venture capitalists, money managers, real estate developers, and banking houses.
Law, Business Services groups together lawyers, accountants, marketing, advertising, and other business services. Table A2 shows the number of companies founded by graduates from each MIT course. It shows the percent of the total from each course, both for all companies in the database and for those founded since 1981. The total is slightly less than that the 3,998 because the course is not known in all cases. Table A3 gives basic data from the company database, showing the number of firms, total employment, average employment, sales, whether the founder had a graduate or undergraduate degree, and the course group.