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List of universities and colleges in Israel

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There are eight official universities in Israel. In addition, there are a few dozen colleges and other institues of higher learning, as well as about a dozen foreign university extensions. All are academically supervised by the Council for Higher Education in Israel (CHEI).

Universities

Israel's official universities are listed below, followed by their English acronym (if commonly used), internet domain, establishment date, latest data about the number of students and the institute's academic rank of the top world universities, according to [WebOMetrics] (top 3000), [Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)] (top 500) and [The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)] (top 200):

Institute Internet Domain Est. Date Students World Academic Rank (WebOMetrics, SJTU, THES)
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology [technion.ac.il] 1924 13,000 (2005) 198, 101-152, 194
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) [huji.ac.il] 1918 22,600 (2003) 131, 78, 77
Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) [weizmann.ac.il] 1949 2,500 (2005, inc. staff & faculty) 346, 101-152, N/A
Bar-Ilan University (BIU) [biu.ac.il] 1955 32,000 (2005) 570, 301-400, N/A
Tel Aviv University (TAU) [tau.ac.il] 1956 29,000 (2005) 266, 101-152, 188
University of Haifa [haifa.ac.il] 1963 13,000 (2005) 604, 401-500, N/A
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) [bgu.ac.il] 1969 17,300 (2005) 448, 301-400, N/A
Open University of Israel [openu.ac.il] 1974 39,000 (2005) 1893, N/A, N/A

All universities, except for the Weizmann Institute and the Open University, offer the full range of graduate and undergraduate degrees - bachelor, master and doctor. The Weizmann Institute does not offer bachelor's degrees, while the Open University does not give doctorate degrees.

Colleges

Other institutes of higher-learning in Israel, that are accredited by CHEI to confer a bachelor's (and in some cases also a master's) degree, are called colleges (מכללות).

These include:

There are also over twenty teacher training colleges or seminaries, most of which can award only a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) degree.

References

See also

List of colleges and universities by country, List of colleges and universities

 


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