70 Years of Impact
Behind every number is a person, a discovery, a moment that mattered. From classrooms to laboratories, courtrooms to startups, these figures trace the extraordinary journey of a university that helped shape Israel and reaches far beyond it.
Raising the Next Gen
TAU before TAU
TAU before TAU
- Youth University alumni – 70,000
- Youth University medals at international Olympiads – 100
Brains That Changed a Nation
Power, influence, and people who rose to the top
Power, influence, and people who rose to the top
- Israel Prizes – 93
- Chief Scientists of Israel – 13
- Israeli Supreme Court judgess – 28 (out of 76 total)
- U.S. Academy of Inventors members – 15
Israel’s Innovation Pipeline
The startup nation starts here
The startup nation starts here
- Unicorn companies founded by alumni – 43
- MBA graduates – 20,000+
- Companies founded by TAU alumni – 1,000+
A Research Superpower
Why TAU is a global scientific heavyweight
Why TAU is a global scientific heavyweight
- Research labs on campus – 400+
- Active research projects each year – 3,500
- ERC grants – 202
- Current ERC Horizon Europe ranking – #3
- ERC funding – €350 million
- Publications – 136,000
- Citations – 4.2 million
TAU Without Borders
A global university in every sense
A global university in every sense
- Lowy International School alumni – 30,000
- International academic partners – 280 institutions in 46 countries
In a Class of Their Own
Weird and cool stuff we're proud of
Weird and cool stuff we're proud of
- Nanosatellites built and launched into space – 12
- Legal cases handled by TAU’s free law clinics – 3,500
(impacting hundreds of thousands of people) - Ancient human species identified – 5
Culture, Sound & Story
Where science meets soul
Where science meets soul
- Film School awards – 400
- Concerts by the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music – 12,000+
- Pages of Yiddish theatre archives digitized – 700
The Academic Footprint
The human scale of 70 years of education
The human scale of 70 years of education
- Alumni – 235,000
- Degrees awarded – 277,893
- MD alumni – 10,306
- Teaching certificates awarded – 10,000
- Honorary Doctorates awarded – 491
The Wild Side of TAU
One of the richest biodiverse campuses on Earth
One of the richest biodiverse campuses on Earth
- Steinhardt Museum of Natural History specimens – 6 million
- Oldest museum specimen – 1822
- Steinhardt Museum visitors since 2018 – 1+ million
- Species in Botanic Garden – 3,500
- Wheat gene bank specimens – 16,000
- Zoo residents – 1,500 animals
- Zoo species – 120
- Wild Egyptian geese couples on campus – 1
- Trees on campus – 3,000
- Campus size – 870 dunams / 220 acres
