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Jerusalem, October 30, 2011 – The 2011-2012 academic year at the |Hebrew University of Jerusalem opened today with an enrolment of nearly 23,000 students, including 11,250 studying for bachelor’s degrees, 6,700 for master’s degrees, and 2,570 doctoral candidates. Additionally, some 2,350 students are studying in preparatory and post-doctoral programs and in the Rothberg International School.
Among the areas of study that were most in demand, with the highest numbers of those submitting registration for the first year of studies, were medicine, with 1,373; law, with 1,090; economics, with 1,012; dental medicine, with 983; business administration, with 876; psychology, with 796; and accounting, with 722.
Fields in which it was most difficult to be accepted were medicine and dental medicine, in which only 7% of those registered were accepted; occupational therapy, only 10%; and psychology, psycho-biology, computer engineering, bio-medical sciences and medical sciences, in which from 12 to 16% of candidates were accepted. In the Amirim honors program in the humanities, only 15% of registrants were accepted.
The university continues this year with its special Cornerstone enrichment program in which exact sciences students will take courses in the humanities and social sciences; humanities students will study in areas of the exact sciences, social sciences or law; and social science, business administration, law and social work students will study subjects in the humanities and the exact sciences, medicine and agriculture. In view of the success of this program, the number of course offerings within this framework has been expanded from 40 in the past to 100 today.
Within the Cornerstone program also, two special courses will be offered this year by the Hebrew University’s Nobel and Fields Prize winners. Prof. Robert J. Aumann, who is a Nobel laureate in economics, will teach a special course in game theory, and Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss , who has earned the Fields Medal in mathematics (considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize) will teach a course on the beauty of mathematics.
Among new programs being offered this year:
- A program for honor students in business administration, in which the students can earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree within four years.
- A new M.A. program of the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government and the Department of Economics, combining studies in public policy and economics,
- A new M.A. program on democracy and politics in Israel in the Department of Political Science.
- A new specialty for master’s degree students within the Department of Geography on urban and regional planning.
- A new master’s program of the Faculty of Law, taught in English, focusing on human rights and international law.
The Faculty of humanities this year will be offering 90 courses for the study of 27 languages, including the largest course in the world on the Malayalam language, which is spoken in southern India. Other languages that will be offered include: Tibetan, Tamil, Pali (an ancient Buddhist scriptural language), Aramaic, Ladino, Armenian, Pahlavi (a middle Persian language), Mongolian and Quechua (an ancient language of the Incas).
For further information: Jerry Barach, Dept. of Media Relations, the Hebrew University,
Tel: 02-588-2904.
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