In 2007 - the Technion was ranked 38th in the world

ahead of most European universities in the ranking of the best technological-engineering universities in the world

The Technion was ranked 38th among the best technological universities in the world, according to the prestigious ranking of Gyeongtung University in Shanghai, China. The Technion is ahead of almost all universities in Europe, with the exception of Cambridge University in Great Britain (16th place in the ranking), Imperial College London (27th place) and the Lausanne University of Technology in Switzerland (28th place). The Technion ranks ahead of countries with a long-standing engineering-technological tradition, such as all the technological-engineering universities of Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy.
All the first 15 places 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 Illinois. Harvard University in the USA, which is in first place in the overall ranking of universities (which includes all areas of academic activity), is only in the 35 in the ranking in the technological-engineering field.

The ranking of universities in the world, carried out by Gyeongtung University in Shanghai, is considered comprehensive and reliable and this year it ranks universities for the first time according to different scientific categories. 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. In the current ranking, 2000 universities were examined, and only a thousand of them managed to enter the ranking. The presence of Japanese universities in prominent places in the ranking is noticeable - the University of Tokyo (25th place) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (28th place). The University of Singapore came in 32nd and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology took 37th place.

The president of the Technion, Professor Yitzhak Apluig, expressed great satisfaction with the Technion's position among the 40 best technological-engineering universities in the world. "We reached this status despite the sharp cuts in the government's budgets, for the Technion in particular and for higher education in general," he said. "This, mainly thanks to Technion friends around the world. 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 and the Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering named after Lori Loki. During the difficult years of budget cuts, the Technion purchased, also with the help of its friends around the world and especially in the USA, the most advanced electron microscope in the world - the Titan. But it must be remembered that this achievement mainly reflects the achievements of the past, and if there is no change in the government's policy we will deteriorate out of the list of leading universities. The matter will have a severe impact on Israel's economy in general and the technological sector in particular. I hope that the government will realize that the future of the State of Israel lies in higher education, will implement the recommendations of the Shohat Committee, will return the budgets taken from the Technion and the higher education system, and will place education at the top of the national priorities," added Professor Apluig.
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