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21 Austin companies recognized as best employers in Texas by Fortune Magazine

CrowdStrike ranked highest out of all large Austin employers on the list and was the only company to make the top 10.

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Austinites looking for their next employment opportunity might want to consider the long list of local companies that were just named the Best Workplaces in Texas for 2023 by Fortune and Great Place to Work.

Great Place to Work, which helps employers improve their workplace culture, and Fortune magazine annually team up to select the best companies to work for in two categories: small and midsize employers, and large employers. Rankings are based on feedback from employee surveys and data from Great Place to Work-certified employers.

Five Austin companies made it onto made it onto Fortune's list of best large workplaces in Texas. Information security providers CrowdStrike (No. 10) ranked highest out of all Austin employers on the list and was the only company to make the top 10.

CrowdStrike workers surveyed said their company has a great "diversity of backgrounds" with their employees.

"We are not cookie cutters in terms of past experiences and interests," the report said. "We have a variety of people who work together to help everyone be successful on engagements."

Identity security experts Sailpoint (No. 13), enterprise resource planning software company Epicor Software Corporation (No. 17), transportation experts Arrive Logistics (No. 18), and biotechnology and pharmaceutical company Natera Inc. (No. 21) also made it onto the list for the best large Austin employers.

Natera Austin Natera ranked No. 21 on Fortune's list of top large employers in Texas.Photo courtesy of Great Place to Work.

An additional 16 local companies appeared in the top 10 best "small and medium" Texas employers list. Four made it into the top 10: security software providers Ontic Technologies (No. 7), financial planners 49 Financial (No. 8), e-commerce platformBigCommerce (No. 9), and WordPress technology company WP Engine, Inc. (No. 10).

Employees at Ontic Technologies praised the friendly community in the report, stating that the company leadership values their workers and their input to improve the workplace culture.

"Our voice matters and we do bring up real-life things that are happening in the world and discuss them but provide support," the report says. "It feels like a place I could be for a while as in the environment and the job opportunities to grow in a career. Its different than my last few jobs where it seemed impossible to advance without a lot of hassle or hurting anyone feelings but working here they want you to grow even if that means leaving the company."

The remaining Austin-based companies listed among Fortune's 75 Best Small and Medium Workplaces in Texas 2023 are:

No. 15 – ActivTrak
No. 24 – M-Files Inc.
No. 27 – American Campus Communities, Inc.
No. 28 – Nutrabolt
No. 32 – Silicon Labs
No. 34 – Praecipio Consulting
No. 37 – Bazaarvoice, Inc.
No. 41 – Osano
No. 44 – Agilon Health
No. 48 – Enverus
No. 51 – Proactive Talent
No. 75 – SafeLease

The Best Workplaces in Texas award is the only one of its kind in the U.S. that "selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated," according to a press release. The companies are evaluated based on how well they treat their employees across several factors, including race, gender, age, disability status, and more.

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UT Austin ranks among best U.S. schools for entrepreneurship in 2025

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The University of Texas at Austin has earned two top-10 spots on The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur’s lists of the best graduate and undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies for 2025.

UT Austin's McCombs School of Business ranks seventh in the graduate category, and UT ranks second in the undergraduate category.

The school is no stranger to the prestigious national lists. In the 2024 rankings, UT also appeared as No. 2 among undergraduate programs, and No. 6 in the ranking for the best graduate programs.

This year marks the fourth time that the school has landed in the top 5 on the undergraduate side, and the 12th time in 15 years that McCombs has made the top 10 among graduate programs in the annual ranking, UT notes in a news release.

The only other schools in Texas to make either top-10 list for 2025 were Rice University (No. 1 graduate school) and the University of Houston (No. 1 undergraduate program).

Rankings for The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur’s 2025 lists were based on a survey of administrators at nearly 300 schools in the U.S., Canada, and Europe that offer entrepreneurship studies. Among the more than 40 factors used for the rankings were academic programs, faculty credentials, mentorship opportunities, and alumni entrepreneurship ventures.

"If the focus of the MBA program at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin were to be summed up in one word, it would be 'collaboration,'" reads the 2025 graduate schools report. "Students in more than 20 concentrations uniformly crow over its 'incredibly collaborative culture,' citing the 'supportive culture' as a top reason they ultimately picked the program. As a 'top 20 school,' the 'rigorous academic[s]' and 'focus on clean energy,' 'technology,' and 'entrepreneurship,' are other stand-out elements of the program."

The top 10 schools on the list of 50 best graduate schools for entrepreneurship studies in 2025 are:

1. Rice University
2. University of California-Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
4. Washington University in St. Louis
5. Babson College
6. University of Washington
7. University of Texas at Austin
8. University of Virginia
9. Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands
10. University of South Florida

The top 10 schools on the list of 50 best undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies in 2025 are:

1. University of Houston
2. University of Texas at Austin
3. Babson College
4. University of Washington
5. Washington University in St. Louis
6. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
7. University of Maryland-College Park
8. Miami University of Ohio
9. Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico
10. Northeastern University

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The story originally was published on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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