Not so Smart After All?

Other stories have bemoaned Israel's "brain drain" and lack of achievement in academics (except Nobel prizes, where they have done very well), as well as other education problems. Maybe it they spent more money on education and less trying to take land away from the Palestinians they could perform better.

Chinese ranking puts Hebrew University in 64th slot in world

Shanghai Jiao Tong University lists Jerusalem institution among top 100 schools worldwide, fourth overall for Asia-Pacific. Other Israeli universities included in top 500 list

Yaheli Moran Zelikovich

The Hebrew University in Jerusalemhas been included in China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University's top 100 academic institutions worldwide.

The Israeli university ranked 64th in Jiao Tong's annual review of the top 500 universities in the world. The ranking is considered one of the most objective ones in the world of academics.

The parameters used to determine ranking include the number of scientific publications, which account for 40% of the ranking, the number of Nobel Prize laureates (30%), the number of scientists quoted in 21 difference [sic] disciplines (20%) and the number of academic achievement in ratio to the university's size (10%).

The list also ranks the Hebrew University's computer science programs in 25th place and further ranks it among the top 75 schools for business and economics.

The university ranked fourth overall for the Asia-Pacific region. The Australian National University ranked third, Japan's Kyoto University ranked second and topping the list for Asia-Pacific was the University of Tokyo.

Topping the top 100 list were the American Harvard, Stanford and Berkley universities.

Other Israeli universities were included in Jiao Tong's extended list, ranking 101 to 500: Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology were ranked among the top 151 schools in the world, the Weizmann Institute of Science was ranked among the top 200, and the Bar Ilan and Ben-Gurion universities ranked among to top 400 universities worldwide.

Published: 11.02.09, 13:35 / Israel News

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