The Above-Average Academic Ranking of academic institutes in Israel is published for the third consecutive year. 35 High Education establishments and 150 learning programs are included and ranked respectively to one another according to 5 fundamental indicators that were found and proofed as most relevant for High Education candidates that are confronting the decision of their study course. Academic prestige, quality of education, social life in the campus, quality of service given to the student and the physical facilities in the premises are evaluated every year in a comprehensive study based on a mixed mode methodology, and are weighted according to their contribution in order to produce the final score.
The Institutions are evaluated annually in a comprehensive study based multiple methodologies including a survey of 8,600 students, interviews with deans and presidents, official statistics, observations etc. The rankings were conducted by the privately-owned Above-Average institute and were supervised by Prof. Jacob Hornik. Professor Hornik is the former head of the department of management in Tel-Aviv University and an authority in the field of marketing research and survey methodology.
The Ranking
The five criteria are measured by a wide range of parameters, grouped into 5 categories:
| The Ranking Table |
| 1. The Technion |
| 2. Hebrew University |
| 3. Ben Gurion University |
| 4. Interdisciplinary Center Hertzelyah |
| 5. Tel Aviv University |
| 6. Hadassah College |
| 7. Bar Ilan University |
| 8. Tell Aviv – Yafo Academy |
| 9. College of Management |
| 10. Braude college of engineering |
| 11. Ruppin Academic Center |
| 12. Holon Institute of Technology |
| 13. Machon Lev (JCT) |
| 14. Shenkar school of design & engeinnering |
| 15. Yizrael valley college |
| 16. Haifa University |
| 17. Netanya College |
| 18. Sami-Shamoun college of the nengev |
| 19. Jerusalem college of engineering |
| 20. Tel Hay Academic College |
| 21. Sapir Academic College |
| 22. Afeka College of Engineering |
| 23. Kinneret Academic College |
| 24 Shaarey Mishpat Law School |
| 25. Ariel University Center |
| 26. The Open University |
| 27. Ramat Gan college of law |
| 28. Western Gallillee |
| 29. Derby university extension |
| 30. Ashkelon College |
| 31. Achva College |
Academic Standards & Quality (27%) – measured by the inputs: Learning load on premises and at after study hours, necessity of reading material in English, variety of courses and the subjective evaluation of the students on the quality of the teaching and relevance of the studied contents
Academic prestige (25%) - evaluated by the number of faculty members, proportion of senior faculty members, number of research centers, extent of selectivity in acceptance criteria for candidates, institute budget, seniority of the establishment and the subjective evaluation of the students.
Social life in the campus (22%) – measured by the intensiveness of the social and cultural events in the campus, activeness level of the students council, extra curriculum activities among the students and the collaboration level in mutual studying activities.
Quality of service given to the student (12.5%) – measures by the level of courteousness and the efficiency of the service given by the administrative staff to the students, quality of online services and the availability of supporting services such as computer stations and copying machines.
Physical facilities in the premises (12.5%) – Is reflected by the quality of the buildings in the campus, comfort level, cleanness and the variety of services offered to the student.
The Ranking is done on a scale from 1 to 100, where the high scores represent the higher attractiveness level. Each study program is given an average score for every Item. The relative ness of the various scores is done by an assigned score of 100 to the highest score, and the other scores are then calculated according to their ratio of the top score. The scores for the main indicators are calculated in a method called "importance: performance”. Pre surveys were done among the students in order to define the relative importance of the different items according to their contribution to the main indicator and the attribute of importance of each indicator according to its contribution to the all around attractiveness of the Institute. The relative importance determined the weight of each item and was multiplied by the score that the item received. The accumulative score of the multiplied items produces the main indicator score and the accumulation of scores of the main indicators produced the overall score for the institute. The ranking of the Institutes and the Academic program is an outcome of those scores.
