As of August 2021, there are ten

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and 53

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Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

, which are recognized and academically supervised by the

Council for Higher Education in Israel The Council for Higher Education in Israel (, ''HaMo'atza LeHaskala Gevoha'') is a supervisory body for universities and colleges in Israel. It is the only organization with the authority to award academic educational accreditation. The head of th ...

. In addition, Israel founded a university in

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in the

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, which used to be academically supervised by the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria. As many course offerings are varied, Israeli universities are considered to be of top quality, and they are inexpensive to attend. Israel's quality university education is largely responsible for spurring the country's high tech boom and rapid

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. The primary difference between a ''university'' and a ''college'' in Israel is that only a university can confer

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degrees, and therefore tends to be more research-oriented than the more teaching-oriented colleges.

Universities

Israel's universities are listed below, followed by their English acronym, establishment date, location, 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), ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'' also known as the Shanghai Ranking (''ARWU)'': Most universities offer the full range of graduate and undergraduate degrees:

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Master's degrees A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

, and

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. However, the Weizmann Institute does not grant bachelor's degrees.

Colleges

Other institutes of

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that are accredited by CHEI to confer a bachelor's (and in some cases a master's) degree are known as ''

'' ( ''Mikhlala''; pl. ''Mikhlalot''). There are also over twenty

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colleges - most of which will award only the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.). ¹Located in the

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Non-degree post-secondary education schools

The

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has also certified certain institutions to award Professional Certificates instead of academic degrees. These include certificates in technology and in the performing arts. * Beersheba Tehni School combines secondary military preparation with post-secondary

practical engineer A practical engineer (Technical Engineer , P.Engineer)() is a professional degree awarded by technological colleges in Israel and validated by the National Institute for Technological Training of the Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor.< ...

certification to qualify engineers for service in the

Israel Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; , commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Indep ...

* Beit Zvi School of the Performing Arts, Ramat Gan * Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem

Non-Israeli certified Colleges

Several colleges – primarily religious institutions – operate in Israel that are ''not'' certified by the CHEI, but rather are accredited by international bodies outside of Israel. * Bethlehem Bible College includes a campus within Israel at

Nazareth Nazareth is the largest Cities in Israel, city in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. In its population was . Known as "the Arab capital of Israel", Nazareth serves as a cultural, political, religious, economic and ...

, as well as two campuses in the

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at Bethlehem and Gaza, accredited by

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and Middle East Association of Theological Education *

Israel College of the Bible Israel College of the Bible (), also known as ONE FOR ISRAEL Bible College, is a Christian Reformed fundamentalist private Hebrew-speaking Messianic Bible college in Netanya, Israel. It is an independent academically accredited institution n ...

, Netanya * Jerusalem University College *

Nazareth Evangelical College Nazareth Evangelical College is an evangelical Bible college located in Nazareth, Israel. The language of instruction is Arabic. The college offers graduate and undergraduate degrees and provides a number of other education services to the local c ...

* Reidman College, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, Eilat, Kinneret, and Misgav, offers alternative medicine certificates not recognized by the

, and offers a BA degree in Chinese Medicine through Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

Foreign university campuses

The following foreign colleges and universities maintain

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es in Israel: *

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– the BYU Jerusalem Center *

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until ...

* Hillsong College, in conjunction with

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Israel *

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, which enrolls the largest number of Jewish students of any public or private university in the

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, and is ranked in the top 34 globally in all major publications of university rankings, has a campus in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

. * Touro University offers courses in Jerusalem, but a degree must be completed in New YorkAbout Us , Touro College in Israel
accessed 2020-03-18 *

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Yeshiva University Yeshiva University is a Private university, private Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City.

References

External links

The Council for Higher Education in IsraelStudy in Israel
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