Where Should You Study for a Successful Career? At the Technion, of Course
The Technion is the only Israeli institution included in the GEURS index this year. The index ranks the world’s leading universities in terms of employability
After securing another global top 100 position in the Shanghai Ranking and earning a top-ten global ranking in the Pitchbook Entrepreneurship Index for entrepreneurial achievement, the Technion has now added another international honor, emerging as Israel’s sole representative among the world’s top universities for graduate employability.
This recognition comes from the GEURS Index (Global Employability University Ranking and Survey), which ranks universities based on employer evaluations. This year, it places the Technion among the Top 250 universities worldwide, the only Israeli university in this prestigious group. The GEURS Index is based on feedback from 12,350 senior executives at international companies across 32 countries.
The GEURS Index is compiled by Emerging and published through Times Higher Education. It is the only global ranking based solely on the evaluations of senior employers. According to the report, the employment world is undergoing a major transformation in how it assesses talent: “Whereas employers once relied mainly on academic knowledge, today they place significant weight on other factors — including demonstrated abilities, transferable skills, and adaptability.”
Prof. Danny Raz, Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion, said, “The impressive success of our graduates in the job market stems from the combination of deep, uncompromising study of scientific and engineering fundamentals with the development of human and social skills, and exposure to the professional world through hands-on experience, industry projects, and hackathons. This combination of profound theoretical knowledge and practical abilities enables Technion graduates to remain sought-after and to lead even in the era of the AI revolution.”
A report published last year by the Samuel Neaman Institute revealed that of startups active in 2023 and founded between 2015 and 2022, more than 1,000 companies were founded or managed by Technion graduates. These include more than a quarter of all startups established in Israel in that period. These companies collectively raised more than $43 billion.
According to a study by Stanford University, the Technion ranks first in the world in the likelihood that its graduates who founded venture-backed companies will lead them to unicorn status — companies valued at more than $1 billion. A Technion graduate’s chances of achieving such success are 14 times higher than those of graduates from Harvard or MIT.
Examples of successful Technion alumni entrepreneurs include: Rafi Mehoudar, inventor of the drip irrigation system; Dov Moran, inventor of the Disk-on-Key; serial entrepreneur Yossi Vardi; the late Dr. Amit Goffer, inventor of the ReWalk exoskeleton; Eyal Waldman, founder of Mellanox; Evgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, founders of Armis; Dr. Kira Radinsky, CEO of Diagnostic Robotics; and Assaf Rappaport, founder of Wiz.
The Technion ranks 10th globally in the number of undergraduate alumni who raised venture capital and 30th in the number of graduate-degree alumni who did so.
The Technion Job Fair (Winter 2025–2026) will take place on December 10, 2025, between 10:00 and 15:00. The technological job fair is held twice a year and offers Technion students and alumni an opportunity to get to know the participating companies in depth, meet their representatives, submit résumés, and interview for relevant positions. The fair is organized by the Career Guidance Unit, which is part of the Office of the Dean of Students. Dozens of leading technology companies will participate in the fair.
