Welcome to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)!

Welcome to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), home to 20,000 students and 4,000 faculty members across 6 academic faculties and over 60 interdisciplinary research hubs. Students and researchers at BGU are engaged in cutting-edge research 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; The School of Brain sciences and Cognition​; The School of Sustainability and Climate Change​ and 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 and abroad.