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 and its official description of types of Israeli higher learning institutions, and their full lists.

See also

• Teacher Training Colleges in Israel

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