List of universities in Israel

There are eight official universities in Israel, listed below (followed by their English acronym, if commonly used):

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)
• Tel-Aviv University (TAU)
• University of Haifa
• Bar-Ilan University
• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• Weizmann Institute of Science
• Open University of Israel

All universities, except for the last two, offer the full range of graduate and undergraduate degrees - bachelor, master and doctor. The Weizmann institute does not offer bachelor's degrees, and the Open University does not offer doctoral degrees.

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

These include:

• Holon Academic Institute of Technology
• College of Judea and Samaria
• Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
• Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
• Jerusalem College of Technology
• Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
• Ruppin - The Academic Center
• The College of Management
• ORT Braude College of Engineering
• Academic College of Tel-Aviv - Yaffo
• Hadassah Academic College
• Yezreel Valley College
• Tel-Hai Academic College
• Netanya Academic College
• Interdisciplinary Center
• Academic College of Engineering in Tel-Aviv
• Sapir Academic College
• Negev Academic College of Engineering
• Shaarei Mishpat
• Academic College of Law
• Jerusalem College of Engineering

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

References

• The Council for Higher Education in Israel and its official description of types of Israeli higher learning institutions, and their full lists.

See Also

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