The Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was ranked 42nd in the world in the subject
of Hospitality and Tourism Management on The Academic Ranking of World
Universities’ (ARWU)(Shanghai Ranking) Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for
2017. It is the only Israeli faculty to make it into the ranking for hospitality
and tourism management. The Faculty was also ranked 201-300 in the subject of
management.
Since its founding in
1994, the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management has been an integral part
of the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, as opposed to other
Israeli universities where the research and teaching on the subject is
scattered across faculties. The department offers an undergraduate degree in
Hotel and Tourism Management and a Masters in Tourism and Hotel Management.
Guilford Glazer Faculty
of Business and Management Dean, Prof. Oded Lowengart, incumbent of the Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair in
Innovative Management, “The faculty’s spots in the Shanghai ranking are
testimony to the quality of our research. To better understand the
significance, the GGFBM is the youngest and smallest management faculty in
Israel, so this standing is evidence of highly productive, high quality
research and academic achievement. An analysis of the criteria for ranking
shows that the faculty’s success lies in factors like the quality of the
journals in which its studies are published and its international
collaborations.”
Department chair Prof. Yaniv Poria, “The department’s alumni hold many management
positions in the tourism, hotel, conferences and events industries as well as
key roles in various initiatives in these fields.”
BGU was also ranked
101-150 in the subject of water resources.
BGU was ranked 151-200
in the subjects of energy science & engineering, and psychology.
BGU was ranked 201-300
in the subjects of management, geological and environmental sciences,
electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, structural (civil)
engineering, chemical engineering, environmental science & engineering, and
economics.
BGU was ranked 301-400
in the subjects of chemistry, mathematics, computer science, human biological
sciences, agricultural sciences, public health, pharmacy and pharmaceutical
sciences.
BGU was ranked 401-500 in the subjects of
biological sciences and clinical medicine.
Link to Shanghai subject ratings
