The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel’s oldest university, with a history going back to 1918 when its First Board of Governors included such names as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. According to the Academic Rank of World Universities, Hebrew University is Israel’s top university and ranked around the world’s top 100 academic institutions.
Hebrew U has several campuses: the Mount Scopus campus houses, among others, the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law faculties; the Givat Ram campus is home to the Faculty of Science and the Jewish National Library; the Ein Kerem campus houses the faculties of Medicine and Dental Medicine; and the Rehovot campus plays host to the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and the Environment and the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine.
The University has produced a long list of illustrious graduates including five Nobel Prize laureates of the past 10 years.
