The Technion is in 42nd place in Engineering and Technology
Computer science at the Technion was ranked as 15th in the world (among 500 universities) by the respected Shanghai Ranking published this week. Shanghai Jiaotong University published its list of university rankings – considered especially prestigious and reliable – http://www.shanghairanking.com/index.html. Harvard University tops the list, with MIT heading the engineering and technology rankings.
The Technion is ranked 42nd in the world in engineering and technology and among the 75 leading universities in life sciences, mathematics and chemistry.
The Shanghai Ranking debuted in 2003 and is intended to improve the level of Chinese universities by comparing them to the top 500 universities in the world. The ranking is based on objective criteria and numerous data. Among the criteria – the number of Nobel Prize and other prestigious award winners, the number of scientific papers published in the leading journals – Nature and Science and other performance relative to the size of the university. The comprehensive Chinese research examines 1000 universities, including the top 500 ones.
Technion President, Prof. Peretz Lavie, said that the high ranking of the Technion in the computer field explains high position of the state of Israel in global high tech. “Research that is now being completed shows that Technion graduates do indeed lead the high tech sector that is moving Israel’s economy forward,” he said. “It turns out that 76% of Technion graduates in the last two decades work in the country’s high tech industry, which is responsible for 51% of the state of Israel’s industrial exports. Of these graduates, 25% are CEOs or deputy general managers, 21% hold other types of management positions, 10% are team leaders and 12.6% are involved in R&D. 59 out of 121 Israeli companies whose shares are traded on NASDAQ were established or are managed by Technion graduates.”