Tel Aviv University

Tel Avi University, founded in 1956, has the largest single campus of Israel's eight official universities. In 2006, it about 29,000 attended its urban campus in the northern neighborhood of Ramat Aviv, in the city of Tel Aviv. The campus is so large that it is actually independent of the Tel Aviv municipality. It received this independence in 1963. The school boasts nine faculties: arts, engineering, life sciences, exact sciences, social sciences, management, humanities, law, and medicine. In addition, it has nine separate subordinate schools and programs that are affiliated with the main school. It even offers special programs in Jewish studies to teachers and students who might be visiting Israel from the United States and other North American countries.