Tel Aviv University Ranks 8th best school for start-up founders in the world

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Tel Aviv University ranked among the top 10 schools in the world for start-up founders, according to PitchBook’s 2019 annual Universities rankings.

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PitchBook’s annual Universities publication ranks the top 50 college programs by their production of entrepreneurs who go on to raise Venture Capital funding.

Tel Aviv University was ranked 8^th in the world and number one outside the US, for the second consecutive year.

694 entrepreneurs, graduates of Tel Aviv University, who set up 577 companies that raise $10.6 billion in capital, earning Tel Aviv University its high ranking.

Haifa’s Technion was ranked 14^th place, Jerusalem’s Hebrew University came in 34^th, and Ben Gurion University in the Negev came in 49^th.

In comparison, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT and Harvard ranked in the top 10, Yale came in 11^th, UCLA came in 12^th and Princeton in 13^th place.

Another ranking of graduates of TAU’s MBA programs ranks the university 13^th in the world, and the only Israeli university among the top 25 universities, thanks to 253 entrepreneurs graduating from its MBA program.