{"id":83740,"date":"1900-01-01T10:28:28","date_gmt":"1900-01-01T08:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-latest-shanghai-rankings-just-published-computer-science-at-the-technion-ranked-15th-among-the-500-leading-universities-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"1900-01-01T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"1900-01-01T08:07:48","slug":"the-latest-shanghai-rankings-just-published-computer-science-at-the-technion-ranked-15th-among-the-500-leading-universities-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-latest-shanghai-rankings-just-published-computer-science-at-the-technion-ranked-15th-among-the-500-leading-universities-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest Shanghai rankings just published: Computer Science at the Technion \u2013 ranked 15th among the 500 leading universities in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
Computer science at the Technion was ranked as 15th<\/sup> in the world (among 500 universities) by the respected Shanghai Ranking published this week. Shanghai Jiaotong University published its list of university rankings \u2013 considered especially prestigious and reliable \u2013 http:\/\/www.shanghairanking.com\/index.html<\/a>. Harvard University tops the list, with MIT heading the engineering and technology rankings.<\/p>\n The Technion is ranked 42nd<\/sup> in the world in engineering and technology and among the 75 leading universities in life sciences, mathematics and chemistry.<\/p>\n 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 \u2013 the number of Nobel Prize and other prestigious award winners, the number of scientific papers published in the leading journals \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 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. \u201cResearch that is now being completed shows that Technion graduates do indeed lead the high tech sector that is moving Israel\u2019s economy forward,\u201d he said. \u201cIt turns out that 76% of Technion graduates in the last two decades work in the country\u2019s high tech industry, which is responsible for 51% of the state of Israel\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u2013 considered especially prestigious and reliable \u2013 http:\/\/www.shanghairanking.com\/index.html. Harvard University tops the list,… Continue Reading The latest Shanghai rankings just published: Computer Science at the Technion \u2013 ranked 15th among the 500 leading universities in the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n