Israel - Israeli Universities

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.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Israel

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