Digital Leaders: top universities for digital entrepreneurship

By seeta.bhardwa@…, 17 April, 2024

Entrepreneurship is becoming one of the most important skills that students can acquire.

In a suite of rankings compiled by the French consultancy Emerging and published exclusively by Times Higher Education, students can explore which universities have a good reputation for providing a digital education and encouraging tech skills and entrepreneurship.

The table was put together through the screening of 150,000 CVs of executives at the world’s leading digital companies, as ranked by Crunchbase. This analysis was combined with a live survey led by Trendence from a global panel of 3,500 selected digital professionals, corporate IT executives, start-up executives and young digital professionals worldwide. The full methodology can be found here.

The top five are a varied bunch, featuring universities from the US, Japan, Germany, Australia and the UK.

Top three universities for digital entrepreneurship

1. Harvard University

Harvard’s Business School offers a range of courses in entrepreneurship, including a dedicated MBA programme. The Rock Centre for Entrepreneurship supports students with their entrepreneurial aspirations.

The centre holds an annual contest called the New Venture Competition that offers students a cash prize for their business ideas.

The Harvard i-Lab also provides students with resources to develop and grow their businesses, including one-to-one advising, an incubator programme and office hours with industry experts.

2. The University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo is a public university located in Tokyo, Japan.

The university has 10 faculties, including economics and science. There are a range of research centres and institutes associated with the university, among them the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology.

The Career Support Office provides students with career counselling and employment information to support them in finding a career after they graduate.

3. University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne has a unique curriculum that allows students to choose a major to specialise in and also to undertake additional courses to explore new subjects.

The university also offers short courses and microcredentials for professional development in a variety of subjects, including cybersecurity, digital storytelling and enterprise skills, among others.

Top universities for digital entrepreneurship 2024

Digital entrepreneurship rank 2024UniversityCountry/region
1Harvard Business School - Harvard UniversityUnited States
2The University of TokyoJapan
3University of MelbourneAustralia
4Technical University of MunichGermany
5University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
6IE UniversitySpain
7University of SydneyAustralia
8University of TorontoCanada
9KU LeuvenBelgium
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
11LMU MunichGermany
12UNSW SydneyAustralia
13Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark
14University of British ColumbiaCanada
15Boston UniversityUnited States
=16National University of SingaporeSingapore
=16Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
18Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSingapore
19King’s College LondonUnited Kingdom
20London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom
21Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
22Bocconi UniversityItaly
23University of CopenhagenDenmark
24Ecole Polytechnique - Institut Polytechique de ParisFrance
25Trinity College DublinIreland
26Boston CollegeUnited States
=27University of CalgaryCanada
=27University of Technology SydneyAustralia
29University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
30UCLUnited Kingdom
31Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia
32Universitat Ramon LlulSpain
33National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan
=34California State University, East BayUnited States
=34CentraleSupélec - Paris Saclay UniversityFrance
36Monash UniversityAustralia
37University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
38ETH ZurichSwitzerland
39Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands
39Stanford UniversityUnited States
=41Yale UniversityUnited States
=41Columbia UniversityUnited States
=43École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland
=43University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
=43Birla Institute of Technology and Science, PilaniIndia
46Lund UniversitySweden
47University of Cape TownSouth Africa
48Babson CollegeUnited States
49McGill UniversityCanada
50University of WaterlooCanada
51Brigham Young UniversityUnited States
52University of BristolUnited Kingdom
53Cornell UniversityUnited States
54Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom
55Brown UniversityUnited States
56University of NavarraSpain
57KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden
58California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
59University of BathUnited Kingdom
=60Ben-Gurion University of the NegevIsrael
=60Tsinghua UniversityChina
=62Boğaziçi UniversityTurkey
=62Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia
64University of LeedsUnited Kingdom
65Duke UniversityUnited States
66Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael
67New York UniversityUnited States
68Delft University of TechnologyThe Netherlands
69Arizona State UniversityUnited States
70Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
71Peking UniversityChina
72Technion Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael
73Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
74IDC HerzliyaIsrael
=75University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom
=75Conservatoire National des Arts et MétiersFrance
=77Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael
=77Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV)Brazil
79Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael
80Emory UniversityUnited States
81University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa
82Dartmouth CollegeUnited States
82Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndia
84Indian Institute of Technology KanpurIndia
85Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia
86Bangalore UniversityIndia
87Georgetown UniversityUnited States
88Northwestern UniversityUnited States
89Drexel UniversityUnited States
89Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico
91Université Paris-Dauphine - PSL UniversityFrance
92University of St GallenSwitzerland
93University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
=94University of WashingtonUnited States
=94University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
96Princeton UniversityUnited States
97Miami UniversityUnited States
98Western UniversityCanada
99University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
100Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUnited States
101Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States
102The University of ChicagoUnited States
103Penn State (Main campus)United States
104University of DelhiIndia
105Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia
106Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia
107University of WarwickUnited Kingdom
108Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUnited States
109University of Texas at Austin: McCombsUnited States
110University of MumbaiIndia
111Northeastern UniversityUnited States
112University of FloridaUnited States
113University of Michigan-Ann ArborUnited States
=114Texas A&M UniversityUnited States
=114San Diego State UniversityUnited States
=114University of VirginiaUnited States
117Washington University in St LouisUnited States
118University of California, San DiegoUnited States
=119Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
=119Universidad PanamericanaMexico
121University of MadrasIndia
122InseadFrance
123University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
124University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
125Santa Clara UniversityUnited States
126Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
=127Southern Methodist UniversityUnited States
=127San Jose State UniversityUnited States
129Rutgers University - New BrunswickUnited States
130University of São PauloBrazil
131University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
=132University of California, IrvineUnited States
=132Universidad del PacíficoPeru
134Syracuse UniversityUnited States
135University of California, DavisUnited States
=136University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
=136University of Colorado BoulderUnited States
138Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Centrum Graduate Business SchoolPeru
139Universidad Peruana de Ciencias AplicadasPeru
=140University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
=140University of ArizonaUnited States
=142Tufts UniversityUnited States
=142University of MarylandUnited States
144London Business SchoolUnited Kingdom
=145University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States
=145Adolfo Ibañez UniversityChile
147Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile
148University of KansasUnited States
148Universidad ESAN - Graduate School of BusinessPeru
150Tallinn University of TechnologyEstonia

 

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