The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology rose six places in PitchBook's 2025 ranking for leading universities for entrepreneurs, achieving 10th in the standings published this week.
Tel Aviv University also held its 2024 ranking of seventh place, resulting in two Israeli universities achieving top-10 positions in the undergraduate charts.
The rankings examine which universities worldwide count the biggest number of entrepreneurs among their graduates based on the startups that they have founded and the amount of capital that has been raised from venture capital funds.
The highest ranking university was University of California, Berkeley, followed by Stanford, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT.
In comparison, Yale, UCLA, Columbia, and Princeton, achieved 12-15th place respectively, below both Tel Aviv University and the Technion.
"The university is proud to continue to be the entrepreneurial university of the State of Israel. The fact that PitchBook ranks us at the top year after year is the best proof of our academic excellence and leadership in creating a generation of entrepreneurs who found companies, raise venture capital and move the Israeli economy forward," Tel Aviv University chief entrepreneurship and innovation officer Prof. Moshe Zviran was cited by Globes as saying.
"Since its founding, the Technion has made it its mission to combine basic science with applied research," Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan said.
"Technion alumni are the main economic engine of the State of Israel and are largely responsible for the creation of Israel’s ‘Startup Nation,’" Sivan added.
Other Israeli universities also ranked highly
Additionally, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ranked 30th, Reichman University ranked 47th, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ranked 52nd, and Bar-Ilan University ranked 90th.