BGU broke into the top 300 universities in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings which were released on Tuesday. Rising 39 places since last year, BGU ranked 292 worldwide, marking seven years of steady improvement.
Out of five Faculties, three were ranked in the top 400 and one, the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, was ranked in the top 300. For the second year in a row, the University maintained its significant increase in Scopus indexed papers.
“With all the criticism of ranking systems, it is an international measurement that the higher education system and the public assiduously follow each year. We are pleased that the sense of advancement and development that we feel is bolstered by an international objective opinion. Despite our youth in comparison with leading universities in Israel and abroad, we are very much present on the international academic stage with a respectable ranking which will only improve in the future,” says BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi.
BGU was ranked fourth in Israel after The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University.
Earlier this year, BGU was named one of QS’s Top 50 Universities Under 50.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the QS ranking, which was first published in 2004, and which has expanded over the past decade to now feature more than 800 universities worldwide, with more than 3,000 considered for inclusion.
