Tel Aviv University
| Tel Aviv University | |
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| אוניברסיטת תל אביב | |
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| Established | 1956 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Joseph Klafter |
| Rector | Aron Shai |
| Vice-President | Ehud Gazit |
| Students | 29,000 |
| Location |  Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.tau.ac.il/ |
Tel-Aviv University (TAU) (Hebrew: אוניברסיטת תל־אביב Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.[1] With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.
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[edit] History
Located in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial core, Tel Aviv University is a major center of teaching and research, comprising 9 faculties, 27 schools, 98 departments and 128 research institutes and centers. Its origins go back to 1956, when three research institutes – the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies – joined together to form the University of Tel Aviv. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963.[2] The Ramat Aviv campus, covering an area of 170-acre (0.69 km2), was established that same year.
The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and the Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon.
[edit] Rankings
In 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 173rd in the world,[3] making it the second-highest ranked university in Israel.[citation needed] Its subject rankings were: 211th in Arts & Humanities, 188th in Engineering & IT, 216th in Life Sciences & Biomedicine, 156th in Natural Sciences, and 154st in Social Sciences.[citation needed]
[edit] Ramat Aviv campus
TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv municipality in 1963, when its campus, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv was established. Buildings on the Ramat Aviv campus include:
- Katz Faculty of the Arts, including the Department of Film and Television, the oldest film and television higher learning institute in Israel, established in 1971
- David Azrieli School of Architecture
- Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
- Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
- Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
- Entin Faculty of Humanities
- Buchmann Faculty of Law
- Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
- Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
- Constantiner School of Education
- Porter School of Environmental Studies
- Shapell School of Social Work
- School for Overseas Students
- Unit of Culture Research
- Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
- Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
- Joseph Kelman School of Education
- Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration – Business Administration school granting undergraduate degrees (Management and Accounting) and graduate degrees. The school has numerous programs for graduate degrees integrated with other business schools worldwide, such as the Executive MBA program with the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. Since 2003, Recanati School has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
[edit] Relations with other universities
Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The programs are in English.
The Tel Aviv University Law Faculty currently has exchange programs from fourteen overseas universities. Namely: Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Virginia, Cornell, Boston University, Temple, Cardozo, Toronto, Bucerius (Hamburg), Monash (Melbourne), Milan, Seoul National University and the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH (Bergen).[4]
[edit] School for Overseas Students
The School for Overseas Students affords thousands of students from across the globe the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University and live in Israel's most dynamic and internationalist city. The program is in English and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz. The university offers about 20 courses a year in English, recruiting many top lecturers from overseas to teach.
Programs include Semester or Year Abroad, Degree Programs, and Specialized Programs.[5]
Undergraduate programs include:[6]
- B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering[7] via The International Engineering School
- B.A. in Liberal Arts[8]
Graduate programs include:[9]
- Middle Eastern History
- TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Conflict Resolution and Mediation
- M.A. in Social Work with specialization in Crisis and Trauma Studies
- M.A. in Security and Diplomacy
- M.A. in Jewish Studies
- M.P.H. in Emergency and Disaster Management
- M.A. in Environmental Studies
- Sofaer International MBA
- Kellogg Recanati MBA
In May 2007, New York University and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University.[10]
[edit] Faculty
Notable faculty members (past and present) include:
- Yakir Aharonov, physicist
- Noga Alon, mathematician
- Yitzhak Arad, historian
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
- Silvia Blumenfeld, curator of the fungi collection
- Guy Deutscher, physicist
- Yoram Dinstein, international law Professor Emeritus and former president of Tel Aviv University
- Uzi Even, chemist and political activist for LGBT rights
- Israel Finkelstein, archaeologist
- Benjamin Isaac, historian
- Joshua Jortner, physical chemist
- Shoshana Kamin, mathematician
- Asa Kasher, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
- David S. Katz, historian
- Fred Landman, semanticist
- Zvi Laron, paediatric endocrinologist
- Orna Lin, lawyer
- Vitali Milman, mathematician
- Moshé Mizrahi, Oscar winning film director
- Baruch Modan, oncologist
- Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
- Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former president of Tel Aviv University
- Aviad Raz, sociologist
- Tanya Reinhart (1943–2007), linguist
- Amnon Rubinstein, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
- Ariel Rubinstein, economist
- Pnina Salzman, pianist and piano pedagogue
- Shlomo Sand, historian
- Anita Shapira, historian
- Micha Sharir, mathematician
- Edna Shavit, drama
- Joshua Sobol, playwright, writer, and director
- Carlo Strenger psychologist, philosopher
- Boris Tsirelson, mathematician
- Jacob Turkel, Israeli Supreme Court Justice
- Lev Vaidman, physicist
- Moshe Wolman, neuropathologist
- Amotz Zahavi, biologist
- Kennedy Otieno, criminologist
[edit] Notable alumni
- Dan Ariely[11]
- Fouad Awad, theatre director
- Alon Bar, award-winning filmmaker
- Mohammad Barakeh, member of parliament and party leader
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Labor)
- Yochai Benkler, law professor at Yale
- Ran Cohen, former minister of Housing
- Arie Eldad, far-rightist member of Knesset
- Israel Eliashiv, former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore
- Yael S. Feldman (B.A. 1967), Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University
- Ari Folman, Cinematographer (Director of Waltz with Bashir)
- Tal Friedman (born 1963), comedian, actor and musician
- Amir Gal-Or, founder of the Infinity Group
- Benjamin Gantz, Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
- Dan Gillerman, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, and Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly
- Tzachi Hanegbi, former minister of Internal Security (Likud and Kadima)
- Zvi Heifetz, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Ron Huldai, current mayor of Tel Aviv
- Benjamin Isaac, historian
- Elie Rekhess, historian of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and faculty of Northwestern University
- Moshe Kam, 49th President of IEEE
- Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
- Efraim Karsh, historian
- Rita Katz, terrorism analyst
- Dov Khenin, political scientist and member of Knesset
- Yosef Lapid, former vice premier, Justice minister and founder of the secularist Shinui party
- Keren Leibovitch, champion Paralympic swimmer
- Hanoch Levin (1943–99), dramatist, theater director, author and poet
- Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
- Moni Moshonov, (born 1951), actor and comedian
- Yitzhak Mordechai, former Minister of Defense and Transportation
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author
- Ophir Pines-Paz, former Interior Minister (Labor)
- Haim Ramon, former minister of Health and Justice (Labor and Kadima)
- Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli astronaut
- Daniel Reisner, former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division
- Gideon Sa'ar, member of Knesset
- Adi Shamir, inventor of the RSA algorithm
- Simon Shaheen, musician
- Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Likud)
- Ariel Sharon (born 1928), former Prime Minister of Israel (Likud and Kadima)
- Natan Yonatan (1923–2004), poet
- Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Arab Israeli judge
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
- Yuval Tal, founder of Payoneer
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Statistical Data – Data on Students in Institutions of Higher Education". Israeli Council for Higher Education. 2007. http://www.che.org.il/english/template/default.asp?maincat=3&catID=58. Retrieved September 18, 2007.
- ^ "Who's who in Israel and in the work ...". January 21, 2011. http://books.google.com/books?id=QmxAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22tel+aviv+university%22+1963+%22ramat+aviv+campus%22&dq=%22tel+aviv+university%22+1963+%22ramat+aviv+campus%22&hl=en&ei=UF9uTuOlIKno0QGi1qXtBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings". Topuniversities. http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011?page=3. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ "The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University". Law.tau.ac.il. April 17, 2008. http://www.law.tau.ac.il/Eng/?CategoryID=186&ArticleID=149&Page=1. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ "Undergraduate Programs". international.tau.ac.il. http://international.tau.ac.il/prospective-students/undergraduate-programs.html. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ "Undergraduate Programs". international.tau.ac.il. http://international.tau.ac.il/prospective-students/undergraduate-programs.html. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ "Tel Aviv University International School of Engineering". ise.tau.ac.il. http://www.ise.tau.ac.il. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ "Tel Aviv University B.A. in Liberal Arts". liberal-arts.tau.ac.il. http://www.liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
- ^ "Graduate Programs". international.tau.ac.il. http://international.tau.ac.il/prospective-students/graduate-programs.html. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ From crisis to couch
[edit] External links
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- TAU in the News – an unofficial, alternative website for news about Tel Aviv University and Israeli academia in general
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