Three Israeli universities are among the 100 best universities in the world in the Shanghai ranking

These are the Hebrew University, the Technion and the Weizmann Institute. At the Technion, the jump from over 100 to the 78th place is attributed, among other things, to the Nobel Prize won by Prof. Dan Shechtman

For the first time since the Shanghai ranking was implemented, three Israeli institutions are among the top XNUMX: the Hebrew University, the Technion and the Weizmann Institute.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is in 53rd place among the best universities in the world according to the Shanghai ranking, the Technion is in 78th place and the Weizmann Institute is in 93rd place. There are three more Israeli universities in the list of the 500 best universities: Tel Aviv University in the cluster of places 101-150, as well as Bar Ilan and Ben Gurion universities between places 301-400 (there is no division into exact places in these groups). The University of Haifa was excluded from the list.

Harvard University leads the world list with scores of 100% in the entire category, Stanford is second, followed by MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, the British University of Cambridge in fifth place, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in sixth place, Princeton seventh, Columbia eighth, the University of Chicago ninth, and Bosuf The second British representative is the University of Oxford, in tenth place.

In addition to a general ranking of the universities, a ranking by fields was also published: in mathematics, the Hebrew University was ranked 16th in the world, Tel Aviv University was ranked 30th, and the Technion was ranked 51-74. In the field of natural sciences and agriculture, the university was ranked 38th, the Technion 39th, the Weizmann Institute and Tel Aviv University ranked 75-51. The Israeli institutions received a respectable ranking in computer science: the Weizmann Institute was ranked 12th, the Technion 18th, the Hebrew University 27th, followed by Tel Aviv University 29th.

In the field of social sciences, the university was ranked 75-51 and Tel Aviv University was ranked 100-76. In economics, the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv were ranked 76-100.

Each year, Shanghai Jiaotong University reviews more than 2,000 universities from all over the world and ranks the 500 best among them. The ranking is made according to criteria such as the number of studies published in scientific journals, the number of Nobel Prize winners, the most cited researchers in 21 different fields, and the academic achievements of the university in relation to its size. The Shanghai rating is considered a more objective rating compared to other ratings that usually use subjective measures.

The Hebrew University said in response that
This year the university rose 4 places compared to last year and reached the highest place since the ranking began in 2003. At the top of the list are the American universities Harvard, Stanford and MIT. This is the first time that three Israeli institutions are ranked in the list of 100 universities: in addition to the Hebrew University, the Technion entered the 78th place in the ranking, and the Weizmann Institute in the 93rd place.
The ranking details the top 100 universities in the world and ranks the rest of the universities according to clusters: Tel Aviv University was ranked between the 150-101 best universities in the world, Bar-Ilan University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev were ranked between the 400-301 universities.

The president of the Hebrew University Prof. Menachem Ben-Shashon said today: "I am proud that several of Israel's research universities are in prominent places in this important international ranking and I am happy that this year too the Hebrew University was ranked at the top of the universities in Israel. The members of the academic staff and the university community determine the quality and the high level of research in Israel, this is the mission of the Hebrew University - to be the leader of research in Israel and one of the leaders of research in the world. The upward trend from last year indicates that the members of the Hebrew University's academic community are up to this task despite the financial difficulties they face. The fact that the university continues to be ranked so highly is a testament to hard work and an inexhaustible pursuit of excellence. I am proud to head an institution whose values ​​are these. Our ambition is to see the university recognized among the best universities in the world, but this depends a lot on the continued flow of budgets to the higher education system and investment in research universities in Israel."

The Technion responded: "In the field of natural sciences, the Technion jumped to 39th place in the world (compared to 51st-75th place last year), in the field of engineering it maintained 42nd place in the world, in computer science it reached 18th place in the world and ahead of all European universities (compared to 15 last year) and in chemistry the Technion jumped to 29th place in the world (compared to 51-75 last year), partly thanks to research professor Dan Shechtman winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry."

The president of the Technion, Professor Peretz Lavi, said that this is the result of a year of many achievements for the Technion, during which research professor Dan Shechtman received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Technion, together with Cornell University, won the New York City tender to establish an engineering-scientific-applied research institute in the city and in a comprehensive poll of " Business Insider" the Technion ranks 25th in the world among engineering universities. "These achievements stem from the uncompromising excellence of the Technion, which this year celebrated 100 years since the laying of the cornerstone for its historic building in Hadar Carmel," he emphasized. "Our excellent faculty members, researchers and employees will continue to train and nurture the students at the Technion, the future generation of Israel, the hi-tech nation."

Minister of Education and Chairman of the Council for Higher Education Gideon Sa'ar congratulated the higher education institutions for their impressive positions in the Shanghai ranking published today.
Minister Sa'ar noted that the higher education system is currently on a path of ascent after the difficult decade in which it was in the previous decade.
Minister Sa'ar: "There is no doubt that the multi-year plan, and the significant budgetary addition given to the system in the current term, has weight in strengthening the system and bringing it back to the King's Road."