Study at Hebrew U. – without the Hebrew

‘The world is a global village, and higher education has gone global,’ says Hanan Alexander from the University of Haifa

Thinking about going to graduate school in Israel but worried your Hebrew is not good enough? Not a problem anymore. Under the banner of “internationalization,” the new buzzword in global academia, Israeli universities are offering more and more graduate programs exclusively in English, especially designed to attract students from abroad – and even more are in the works.

Haifa University

This year alone, Tel Aviv University opened five new English-language master’s degree programs – in archaeology, emergency and disaster management, environmental studies, Jewish studies and a more interdisciplinary political science in action: leadership, communication and elections. Another program in migration studies is slated to open in the fall. Haifa University has just opened English-language master’s degree programs in peace and conflict management studies, Holocaust studies, art therapy, patent law and maritime civilizations. The Hebrew University in Jerusalem this year opened a new master’s program in “Glocal Community Development Studies,” which provides hands-on training in impoverished communities around the globe, as well as a Master of Laws program in human rights and international law.

And this is just a sampling.

“The world is a global village, and higher education has gone global,” observes Hanan Alexander, head of the international school at the University of Haifa. “This is one of the things that first-rate research universities do these days, and it’s no coincidence that we’ve all reached the same conclusion.”

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