/// REICHMAN UNIVERSITY ON THE PRESTIGIOUS PITCHBOOK LIST

This year for the first time, and thanks to the mapping work of the School of Entrepreneurship staff, Reichman University has been included in the prestigious PitchBook rankings, which rate universities around the world in terms of how many entrepreneurs they produce. Reichman University was ranked 38th in the world, due to its 350 graduates who have founded 293 companies, raising about $8.8 billion since the year 2000. Moreover, among the small universities listed in the report, i.e., those with fewer than 15,000 students, Reichman University ranks seventh worldwide.

Reichman was listed in the rankings alongside elite universities such as Stanford, which was ranked first, Harvard, and MIT. This achievement is especially remarkable in light of the fact that Reichman University is a relatively young institution – only 28 years old – and is a private university run as a public benefit corporation that does not receive funding from the governmental budgetary system for higher education. Its expenses are funded exclusively by tuition and donations.

The university rankings, conducted every year by the business information firm PitchBook, compare universities by carrying out a comprehensive study of about 150 of the “world’s leading venture capital funds that map the number of startups and founders that have come out of each university”.