Hebrew University Among Best In World

June 8, 2017 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel’s finest, according to the new 2018 QS World University Rankings, and ranks 145th in the world, rising three spots from last year. The rankings place the Hebrew University among the top 15 percent of the 980 higher education institutions surveyed by QS, and among the top 1 percent of the 26,000 universities in the world. To compile the rankings, QS analyzed 75 million citations from 12 million papers, and 115,000 survey responses from employers and academics, as well as considered more than 4,000 universities before evaluating 980 of them. The Hebrew University was founded in 1918 by such innovative thinkers as Albert Einstein, Martin Buber and Sigmund Freud. [Photo: Grauesel/WikiVoyage]