In 2010 - the Technion was ranked 38th in the world among technological-engineering universities

ahead of most European universities in the ranking of the best technological-engineering universities in the world; Up two places compared to last year

The Technion was ranked 38th among the best technological universities in the world, according to the prestigious ranking of Gyeongtung University in Shanghai, China. This is an increase of two places compared to last year. The Technion is ahead of almost all technological-engineering universities in Europe, in countries with a long-standing engineering-technological tradition such as Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy.
All the first 15 places in the general ranking (which includes all areas of academic activity) are occupied by American universities. In first place is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, in second place is Stanford University and in third place is the University of Berkeley.

The ranking of universities in the world, carried out by Gyeongtung University in Shanghai, is considered comprehensive and reliable. His website on the Internet registers 2000 hits every day since it went live in 2003.

Among the main criteria that determine the ranking - the number of the university's scientific publications and their quality, and the number of leading scientists in the university's field of expertise. Every year about 2000 universities are tested, and only a thousand of them manage to enter the ranking. This year the presence of the Japanese universities and the universities of Singapore and Hong Kong stands out.
The president of the Technion, Professor Peretz Lavi, expressed great satisfaction with the Technion's position among the 40 best technological-engineering universities in the world. "We refer only to our position at the top of the engineering-technological universities and not to the general ranking, because a technological-engineering university should not be compared to a university that also teaches the humanities and social sciences", he emphasized.

"We reached the honorable status despite the sharp cuts in the government budgets, for the Technion in particular and for higher education in general. This, mainly thanks to the friends of the Technion around the world and especially in the USA. With the help of their generous support, in recent years we have been able to recruit talented and promising young faculty members, establish the Russell Berry Center for Research in Nanotechnology, inaugurate the Zisafel Center for Research in Nanoelectronics, the Lori Loki Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, and the Steve Grand Center for Energy Research and to establish an affordable village with 215 spacious apartments for postgraduate students and their families. But it must be remembered that this achievement mainly reflects the achievements of the past, and if there is no immediate change in the government's policy - we will deteriorate out of the list of leading universities".