Welcome to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is one of Israel’s leading research universities and among the world leaders in many fields.
It has around 20,000 students and 4,000 faculty members in the Faculties of Engineering Sciences; Health Sciences; Natural Sciences; the Pinchas Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management; the Joyce and Irving Goldman School of Medicine; the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies; and the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies. More than 100,000 alumni play important roles in all areas of research and development, industry, health care, the economy, society, culture and education in Israel.
The University has three main campuses: The Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva; the research campus at Sde Boker and the Eilat Campus, and is home to national and multi-disciplinary research institutes: the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev; the National Institute of Solar Energy; the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology; the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, and Heksherim – The Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture.
Explore our programmes
- MBA – International Program
- MA in Israel Studies
- MA in African Studies – African Sustainable Communities
- MSc in Desert Studies
- Global Health – Summer Program
- Data Mining and Business Intelligence for Cyber Security – Summer Program
- Sustainable Agricultural Solutions – Summer Program
- Modern Israel – Summer Program
- MSc in Environmental Physics and Solar Energy
- MSc in Biomedical Engineering
- MSc in Biotechnology Engineering
- MSc in Chemistry
- MSc in Communication Systems Engineering
- PhD in Desert Studies
- MSc in Earth and Environmental Sciences
- MSc in Ecology and Nature Conservation
- MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- MSc in Electro-Optical Engineering
- PhD in Engineering
- MA in Foreign Literatures
- PhD in Health Sciences
- PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences
- MSc in Hydrology and Water Quality
- MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management
- MSc in Life Sciences
- MA in Linguistics
- PhD in Management
- MSc in Materials Engineering
- MSc in Mathematics
- MSc in Mechanical Engineering
- MSc in Mechatronics Engineering
- PhD in Natural Sciences
- MSc in Nuclear Engineering
- MSc in Physics
- MSc in Software and Information Systems Engineering