Bar-Ilan University
אוניברסיטת בר-אילן (Hebrew) | |
Aerial view of Bar-Ilan University | |
Other name | BIU |
|---|---|
| Motto | Impacting tomorrow, today |
| Type | Public research |
| Established | 1955 |
| President | Arie Zaban |
| Rector | Amnon Albeck |
| Principal | Zohar Yinon |
Administrative staff | 1,250 |
| Students | 20,000 |
| 2,200+ | |
| Location | Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District , Israel 32°4′4″N 34°50′33″E / 32.06778°N 34.84250°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Dark green and sky blue |
| Website | www |
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, Hebrew: אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, Universitat Bar-Ilan) is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 students and 1,350 faculty members.
Bar-Ilan's mission is to "blend Jewish tradition with modern technologies and scholarship and the university endeavors to ... teach the Jewish heritage to all its students while providing [an] academic education." The university is among the best in the Middle East in the fields of computer science, engineering, engineering physics and applied physics. In 2024, the university was donated $260 million, one of the biggest donations to a university in Israeli history, for investment in science. The donor wished to remain anonymous.