Applications open around mid-January and close around the end of July for the academic year starting the following October.
Some graduate degree programs start in March, in which case, applications open around mid-June and close around the end of December.
Bar-Ilan University has a coordinator dedicated to helping students get their student visas. You will find detailed information and the relevant forms under our Visa section, which can be found here.
You can also email [email protected] for further help.
Please check the tuition handbook here.
Bar-Ilan University offers undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, doctoral degrees, postdoctoral research, summer programs, and short-term programs, including study-abroad or student-exchange.
You can email [email protected] or call +972-3-738-4246 for short-term accommodation.
If you’re interested in accommodation for a full year, please email [email protected] or call +972-3-736-4867/+972-3-736-4865.
We offer many different fun and social activities. You can see some of our past activities here. We also value our students’ ideas, so if you want to plan an activity, please email [email protected] and our representatives will be more than willing to help.
The EU’s Erasmus+ program provides students with the opportunity to experience an international education. Erasmus+ students from Bar-Ilan University study at a partner university in Europe while European students study at Bar-Ilan University for three to 12 months during their degree.
Outgoing BIU students can find more information and register here.
Incoming international students can find out more information and register here.
Yes, of course. Bar-Ilan University is happy to welcome students from all parts of the world and offers placement opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate studies. You can find out more here.
Bar-Ilan University is consistently ranked in the top 2% of all universities throughout the world. Our prize-winning professors and lecturers are internationally-recognized for their academic achievements and lead significant advancements in research in their fields. We offer excellent, highly-rated postgraduate programs in a variety of disciplines, most of which are taught entirely in English.
In the “Research Opportunities” box (below), we have compiled a cataloged page to make it easier for those who are interested in our doctoral programs and research opportunities.
Explore a range of undergraduate degrees in English, including Political Science, Communication, and Humanities. We also offer 16 diverse graduate programs and a brand-new Cyber Security & Data Protection certificate – all in English!
If you find an error in content or missing information – please update us. In any case, the binding information appears on the website of the Council for Higher Education.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to