[6] The university offers degrees in science and engineering, and related fields such as architecture, medicine, industrial management, and education.

[7] Since its founding, it has awarded more than 123,000 degrees[8] and its graduates are cited for providing the skills and education behind the creation and protection of the State of Israel.

[12] The Technion is also a major factor behind the growth of Israel's high-tech industry and innovation, including the country's technical cluster in Silicon Wadi.

It was to be the only institution of higher learning in the then Ottoman Palestine, other than the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (founded in 1906).

After opposition from American and Russian Jews to the use of German, the board of trustees reversed itself in February 1914 and selected Hebrew as the language of instruction.

[16] In 1923 Albert Einstein visited and planted the now-famous first palm tree, as an initiative of Nobel tradition.

The first palm tree still stands today in front of the old Technion building, which is now the MadaTech museum, in the Hadar neighborhood.

[18] In the early 1950s, under the administration of Yaakov Dori, who had served as the Israel Defense Forces’ first chief of staff, the Technion launched a campaign to recruit Jewish and pro-Israel scientists from abroad to establish research laboratories and teaching departments in the natural and exact sciences.

[19] Technion City generally refers to the 1.2-square-kilometer site located on the pine-covered north-eastern slopes of Mount Carmel.

Its original building in midtown Haifa, in use by the Technion until the mid-1980s, now houses the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology and Space.

The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is located in the neighborhood of Bat Galim, adjacent to Rambam Hospital, the largest medical center in Northern Israel.

Recreational activities on the main campus include an Olympic-size swimming pool as well as gymnastics, squash, and tennis facilities.

In April 2022, a cable car station of the Rakvalit was opened at the main campus, connecting the Technion to Haifa University (higher up on Mount Carmel) and to the HaMifratz Central Bus Station and public transit hub at the foot of Mount Carmel.

[23] On 19 December 2011, a bid by a consortium of Cornell University and Technion won a competition to establish a new high-tier applied science and engineering institution in New York City.

[27] Positive media coverage abounds,[28] as well as some small scale protests from the margins of political and environmental activism.

[29] In September 2013 the Li Ka Shing Foundation and the Technion announced they would be joining forces to create a new institute for technology at Shantou University, Guangdong province, south-eastern China.

Recent research breakthroughs include the identification of a structured neurological code for syllables and could let paraplegics "speak" virtually through the connection of the brain to a computer.

CAMERI has become with time a national authority in various data and research aspects related to the Israeli coastal and marine environments.

[49] The Department of Humanities and Arts[50] serves all the Technion community, offering courses taught by visiting and adjunct scholars including philosophy of science, social and political sciences, linguistics, psychology, law and anthropology and an array of theoretical and performing arts courses.

The theater presented 52 performances in different styles, some by Hanoch Levin, Yehoshua Sobol, Moliere, Shakespeare, Pierre de Marivaux, Henrik Ibsen and Bernard Shaw, Sławomir Mrożek among others.

The play An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, the main actor Rooney Navon, Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received honorable nomination at Benevento in Italy in 2009, and also in Isfia near Haifa.

The Show "invisible clothes" written and directed by Ouriel Zohar presented at The International Theater Festival in Saint Petersburg State University in 2012.

Naor's vision was to combine Industrial engineering with Management by creating a large, inherently multidisciplinary unit covering a wide spectrum of activities such as applied engineering, mathematical modeling, economics, behavioral sciences, operations research, data science and statistics.

[60] The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine[61] is home to two Nobel Laureates: Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover.

It was founded in 1979 through the philanthropy of Bruce Rappaport and is active in basic science research and pre-clinical medical training in anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology, microbiology, physiology, and pharmacology.

[62] Other facilities on the Faculty of Medicine campus include teaching laboratories, a medical library, lecture halls, and seminar rooms.

Technion offers after-school and summer enrichment courses for young people on subjects ranging from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics.

[73] Technion set up the Israeli chapter of Engineers Without Borders,[74] which among other projects, installed a network of biogas systems in rural Nepal providing sustainable energy and improved sanitation.

[75] The Technion includes students from underrepresented groups such as Haredim and Arabs through scholarships, social programs and financial support.

[76][77] The Technion and Technische Universität Darmstadt formed a partnership in cyber security, entrepreneurship and materials science.