Hebrew U. One of World's Best

HebrewUniversity skipped up 35 places in rankings of the best universities in the world and now is number 93 on the London Times Higher Education Survey.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was ranked 93 in the world this year by the Times Higher Education survey, released last weekend. This means the university has jumped by 35 places since last year. TelAvivUniversity was ranked 114^th, and Technion, located in Haifa, was considered the 29^th best engineering school.

Social science faculties in the Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities won spots in the top 60.

American higher institutions of learning continued to dominate the latest survey, placing 37 universities in the top 100 and 20 in the top 50.

The rankings revealed that other universities throughout the world are seriously challenging the American and British domination of the top rankings. Thailand’s top university, ChulalongkornUniversity, won the 166^th place, the first time it broke into the top 200.