The Technion Jumps in the Shanghai Ranking – to 78th Place Worldwide
Advances to 29th in chemistry and 42nd in engineering; Technion ranks 18th in computer sciences, above all European universities
The Technion jumped to the 78th place in the Shanghai ranking of universities, considered the world’s most reliable and comprehensive ranking system. Last year the Technion was in the 101-150 category.
In natural sciences the Technion jumped to 39th place (51-75 in 2011), and in engineering it maintained its 42nd place. In computer sciences, the Technion is ranked #18 worldwide, higher than all European universities; in chemistry the Technion jumped to 29th place (51-75 last year), in part a result of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman.
Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie attributed these rankings to the outstanding achievements of the past year, including Prof. Shechtman’s Nobel Prize and the selection of the Technion and Cornell University to establish a new applied science and engineering campus in New York City. He noted that in a recent survey by Business Insider, the Technion placed 25th among engineering universities worldwide.
“These achievements are the result of the uncompromising excellence of the Technion, that is celebrating 100 years since the laying of the cornerstone for our historic building at Hadar Hacarmel”, he emphasized. “Our outstanding faculty, researchers and staff will continue to nurture and train the students of the Technion, the future generation of Israel, the ‘start-up nation.’ “
The Academic Ranking of World Universities, conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is highly respected by university heads worldwide, and its editors have agreed to publish it on the internet, thus complying with many requests from around the world. Since it launched in 2003, the website has recorded 2000 visits daily. Among the ranking criteria are the number of Nobel laureates in the university, and the number of its scientific publications and their quality. The list of 500 leading universities is headed once again by U.S. universities – Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Berkeley.