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In the sense of "entrepreneurial" spirit, perhaps. But in technical academics? Far from it. That crown is still held by Berkeley/Stanford/MIT/CMU. Entrepreneurship pretty much means essential technical abilities to succeed at a startup. If I want to hire marketing/recruiters/managers, sure, Penn makes the cut.

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So, I used to go to Penn and now I go to one of the schools on that list. As far as I can tell, Penn CS students are better prepared to start companies, and probably as well prepared to be developers, as the students at my current school. They are not as well prepared to, say, go get a PhD in CS unless they go above and beyond the ordinary coursework.

But when the tech blogs talk about the "Stanford of the East" they're not really talking about grad school preparedness anyways. Stanford is set apart from the other schools on your list by its entrepreneurial spirit anyways.

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