The University of Tel Aviv is located in the cultural, financial and industrial heartland of Israel and is the largest university in Israel and the largest Jewish university in the world with 30,000 students. It is an important teaching and research centre with nine faculties, 125 schools and departments, and 130 research institutes.

The University of Tel Aviv is known for its excellent teaching and research and is among the top 100 international universities.

Extensive basic knowledge and opportunities for specialisation are offered in the faculties:

• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Exact Sciences
• Faculty of Life Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine 
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Las
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Management

Relevant for IS:link guest students is the Faculty of Management or the Coller School of Management. It was founded in 1966 at TAU and has developed over the years into an established academic institution and the largest business school in Israel.

The aim of the Business School is to prepare students for leading positions in companies and public institutions in various economic sectors and to prepare them for academic careers in various fields of management science. Six specializations are offered:

• Finance & Accounting
• Strategy & Entrepreneurship
• Operations Research
• Management of Technology & Information Systems
• Marketing
• Organizational Behaviour

As Israel's top business school, we are proud of our outstanding reputation at home and abroad and our recognition as the first school in Israel to be awarded the international accreditation of AACSB, the highest standard of achievement for business schools.

We are consistently recognized as the leading provider of management education in Israel, and steadily climbing up the global rankings. Our school has repeatedly gained the highest ranking for global influence, the coveted '5 Palmes of Excellence' by Eduniversal, alongside Harvard Business School, London Business School and INSEAD. We rank 13th in the world for producing successful, VC-backed startup founders, and 9th in the world for the number of unicorns established by its graduates (Pitchbook).

Coller, a member of the Partnership in Management Network (PIM), welcomes over 100 exchange students every year from 90+ partner schools, including: Wharton, Booth, NYU, NUS, HEC, Bocconi, HKUST, Tsinghua to name a few. More details about our exchange program are available HERE.

We offer international students various opportunities, such as:

• Full semester exchange (14 weeks)
• Half semester exchange (7 weeks)
• Dean's summer program (courses lasting 1 week each)

Incoming students will also have access to our Career Center, which assists students with career advising, resume preparation assistance, internship search, and more.

Semester dates & deadlines:

https://international.tau.ac.il/academic_calendar/%3Ftab%3D2?tab=1

Courses:

https://en-coller.tau.ac.il/the-programs/exchange/overview_new

Student life offers a dynamic and cultural environment, similar to the character of the Tel Aviv metropolis.

Every two years the International Student Film Festival takes place in Tel Aviv, where actors, directors and cameramen give lectures and master classes.

Every Wednesday, students can enjoy rock music outdoors on campus free of charge. Over 200 concerts are held on campus. This is because TAU is the only university with a music school.

Tel Aviv is known as the capital of Israeli industry, providing almost 40% of the country's financial and banking services. High-tech companies and start-ups make the city an innovative and information-based centre.

The population consists to a high percentage of young people. The city centre is a good place to make contacts due to the high concentration of nightclubs and restaurants. Outside the city, the beaches offer opportunities for sports activities such as windsurfing.

The following information might be important before you arrive:

• The currency is "shekel".
• The weather is muggy-hot in summer with maximum temperatures of 30°C in August, while in winter the temperature is mild, between 11° and 19°C.

Study period: Spring 2012
Academic level: Master
Julia V.

University:
"The university is not in the center of Tel Aviv, it is in the north. But buses are going there from the center all the time and if it’s not too hot, you can go by bike. The university has a big campus and is a fairly new university. You can choose courses of the part time Master or of the international MBA-Program. The part time courses are joined by Israeli students and are in the evenings because the students are already working daytime jobs. The MBA-Program is for people from around the world who worked several years and come to Tel Aviv to study again. […] But you have to know that the university offers nearly only economic courses.

When you arrive you have an introduction week in which you get to know the other exchange students, the university, Jerusalem and Jaffa. All the time you have a contact person, who is there to help you all the time. In addition, the university has a buddy system. Every student gets an Israeli student as a buddy to get to know the Israeli culture better. Beside that the university organizes parties and other events like soccer matches. One great event was the pool party in the swimming pool of the university."
 

Study period: Spring 2013
Academic level: Master
Mario N.

Tel-Aviv:
"Seen the perspective of recreation, Tel Aviv has a lot of opportunities. Habimah as the national theatre or any of the cinemas showing movies in original versions (mostly in English) are a great opportunity to spend your time. Additionally there are lots of restaurants and bars which never close or boulevards inviting you to stay or play a game of Boule. If this does not fit you there is also the possibility to go to one of the wonderful beaches where one can swim, surf or play Matkot (an Israeli game)."

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11Photos from Tel-Aviv-University