Startup Genome names TAU as the only non-American university in its top 10 list of schools whose alumni are active in the global startup scene.

What makes Israel the Startup Nation? It’s a combination of Israeli ingenuity and thinking out-of-the-box, a robust venture capital ecosystem, mandatory army service that provides young Israelis with leadership experience far beyond their years, and world-class universities that seamlessly intersect with the startup scene.

The role of the latter received outside validation by Startup Genome,  a policy advisory and research firm focusing on high tech, which placed Tel Aviv University fifth in the world in terms of the level of involvement of its alumni in entrepreneurship.

That puts TAU just behind Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley and Harvard, which claimed the top four spots. It’s the only non-American school in the Startup Genome’s top 10, which also includes Cornell, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.