The 150,000-square-meter leafy, landscaped campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot has again been named in
The Scientist magazine’s annual survey as the “best place to work in academia” outside the US.
The institute consistently appears among the top five international (non-US) institutions, and has been ranked first several times.
The Scientist survey is taken by thousands of researchers in institutions around the world, including Weizmann.
The institute’s overall score was in the 100th percentile, and scientists there rated the statement “My work gives me great personal satisfaction,” a 5 on a scale of 1 to 5.
The institute, which consists of 100 buildings, has received increasing support from Israeli and European Union funding sources, offsetting a 6 percent drop in US government funding since 2007, according to Weizmann’s vice president, Haim Garty.
“As a result, the total grant money not only did not decrease during the
economic crisis, but actually increased by as much as 20% since 2007.”
Garty said these funds, together with sharing of internal resources at
the institution, helped “enable continuity of high-quality research in
rough periods.”
The institute is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary research
institutions, with five faculties – mathematics and computer science,
physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology – divided into 17
scientific departments.
In addition, the Feinberg Graduate School trains research students pursuing graduate degrees.