Top Rankings and Nobel Prizes

Top Rankings and Nobel Prizes

Top Rankings:

• Ranked #1 by Israel’s Council of Higher Education in academic achievement
• Ranked #2 of best places to work in academia
• Ranked 12th worldwide by the Milken Institute, which evaluates the world’s top universities based on the quality of their biotech research, and the number and quality of their patents.
• Ranked 39th in the arts and humanities — outranking all other Israeli universities — by The Times Higher Education Supplement of London
• Ranked #64 worldwide by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China*
• Ranked #82 of the world’s leading universities by Newsweek magazine

Seven Nobel Prizes in Recent Years:

• 2009: Professor Ada Yonath - Chemistry 
• 2006: Professor Roger Kornberg - Chemistry
• 2005: Professor Robert J. Aumann - Economic Sciences
• 2004: Professor David J. Gross - Physics
  Professors Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover - co-recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 2002: Professor Daniel Kahneman - Economic Sciences

  * The Academic Rankings of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is one of the two most prominent world university rankings, along with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

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