Shanghai ranking: The Hebrew University still leads the Israeli list despite falling six places; The Technion and the Weizmann Institute rose by one rank

Harvard University is still the best university in the world * The president of the Technion expresses concern about the expected decline in achievements due to the budget crisis

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 university's academic achievements in relation to its size.

As last year, three Israeli universities are ranked among the hundred best institutions in the world according to the Shanghai ranking. In the ranking, published today, the Hebrew University is ranked 59th, a drop of six places compared to last year's ranking, when it was ranked 53rd.
In second place - the Technion, which rose one place in the ranking from the 78th to the 77th place. In third place is the Weizmann Institute, located in 92nd place, also like the Technion, it went up one place in the ranking.

The other old universities are also on the list of the top 500 universities in the world: Tel Aviv University is in fourth place, ranked in the group of places 101-150. The 5th-6th places are the additions of Bar Ilan and Ben Gurion universities (located in places 301-400), and in seventh place, the University of Haifa, ranked in the group of one hundred universities that sign the list of the 500 best institutions in the world.

The ten best universities in the world are in the following order: Harvard University is in first place, followed by seven more American universities and two British universities up to tenth place. In second place is Stanford University, third is the University of California at Berkeley, fourth is MIT, and in fifth place is the British University of Cambridge. In sixth place is the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), seventh is Princeton, eighth is Columbia University, ninth is the University of Chicago, and the British University of Oxford is the richest.

The Hebrew University stated that the university is ranked 17th in the world in the number of its graduates who have won the Nobel and Fields Prizes and 39th in the world in the number of its faculty members who have won these prizes.
Since the ranking began to be published in 2003, the Hebrew University has entered the list of the 100 best universities in the world every year, when in the first year the ranking was published, the university appeared in 94th place, and since then it has climbed 35 places in the ranking. Throughout the years, the Hebrew University won the highest ranking among all the universities in Israel.

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 is being recognized as the leading university in Israel. The fact that the university continues to be ranked so highly is a testament to the hard work of the members of the academic staff and the university community and their uncompromising pursuit of academic excellence."

"In a comprehensive and long-term view, there is no doubt that the Hebrew University is strengthening its international position as a significant and important university. 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 and the continued cooperation with research institutions and international bodies."

• In the ranking of scientific faculties, the Technion was ranked 38th. The Hebrew University was ranked 40th and the Weizmann Institute was ranked first
• 51 - 75 The science faculties in the world are led by Harvard University.
• In the ranking of the engineering faculties, the Technion was ranked 46th, and is the only one of the Israeli universities that entered the top XNUMX universities in the world in the fields of engineering. MIT University leads the world list.
• The Technion's Faculty of Computer Science was ranked 18th, the Weizmann Institute 23rd and the Hebrew University 28th.

The Technion's Faculty of Chemistry was ranked 38th.

Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie said today following the publication of the Shanghai Index: "Indices and rankings must be treated with care, especially when a fraction of a point here or there can change the position of a university from year to year. However, the Shanghai index is the leader among the global rankings and there is no doubt that it is very flattering to Israeli science. The fact that three Israeli institutions are included in the list of the top XNUMX universities in the world, while France, Germany, Switzerland, and Canada only have four institutions, indicates the quality of science in Israel and its status in the world. Of course, I am especially happy that the Technion is among the elite institutions in the world in the fields of engineering and science, and especially in computer science. We must avoid harming Israel's research universities at all costs"

For information on the 2012 ranking

The ranking of the universities in Israel 2013

The full Shanghai ranking 2013