Department of Overseas Studies
University of Haifa
Tel: (011) 972.4.8240766
Fax: (011) 972.4.8240391
Email: overseas@research.haifa.ac.il
Website: http://overseas.haifa.ac.il/

NYC Office
Tel: (888) 562-8813 or (212) 685-7880
Fax: (212) 685-7883
Email: university-of-haifa@worldnet.att.net

The University of Haifa is located atop Mt. Carmel, bordering the Carmel National Park, in the port city of Haifa. The city is beautiful and dynamic, a major center for Israeli high tech and export industries and the cultural capital of northern Israel. Haifa has an extraordinary cosmopolitan population of Jews, Arabs and Druze living in harmony to make the city and the university very special places in which to live and study.

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The University of Haifa is an internationally acclaimed institution of higher education and research with over 12,500 enrolled students and a faculty drawn from all over the world. Allegheny students will normally enroll in the Department of Overseas Studies, which offers courses in most of the fields taught at the University. Students can enroll in regular university courses if they are offered in English or if they demonstrate the requisite Hebrew proficiency.

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This program is open to all second semester sophomores in any major. A 2.5 GPA is required.

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Allegheny students must first be approved to study off-campus before applying to their chosen program. Deadlines to submit the approval packet are March 1 for the fall program and September 20 for the spring program. Approval packets will be reviewed immediately following the appropriate semester deadline. Stop by Reis Hall to pickup the guidelines or access the information on the web at www.alleg.edu/accel/offcampus/app.html.

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University sponsored tours offer students a view of Israel in its entire natural beauty and cultural interest. These trips include special activities for each location such as canoeing on the Jordan River, mountain climbing, swimming in a desert oasis, visits to a Bedouin camp, Druze villages and archaeological sites. There is also a special series of cultural enrichment lectures and discussion meetings on religious, political and social issues. In addition, two or three weekend seminars are held off-campus in different educational retreats throughout the country.
The University of Haifa Students Association organizes on campus activities such as concerts featuring major Israeli pop stars, weekly dancing and discos, a film series sponsored by the campus Hillel Foundation and numerous sports activities.

All students live in the University dormitory. The dorms are divided into suites of three doubles, a kitchen, a large bathroom and a common room. There is no meal plan at the University, so students can cook in their suite kitchens. There are university-subsidized cafeterias on campus serving a variety of meals at very reasonable prices.

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Students are charged Allegheny tuition, fees (including $100 off-campus fee), room and board, and Allegheny financial aid, except workstudy, is applied to program costs. Additional costs include insurance, international airfare, and personal expenses (including passport, visa, and local transportation).

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