List of universities in Israel
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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 (BIU)
- 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 seminaries, most of which can award only a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) degree.
References
- The Council for Higher Education in Israel (http://www.che.org.il/) and its official description of types of Israeli higher learning institutions, and their full lists (http://www.che.org.il/eng.htm).
See also
- Teacher Training Colleges in Israel (http://www.science.co.il/Colleges.asp)
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