From 2007 to 2018, according to CSRankings, Tel Aviv University ranks 30th in the world in computer science, the same as Harvard and the highest ranking in Israel. [26] Tel Aviv University is not only the largest university in Israel, but also the largest Jewish university in the world. It was created in 1956, when three teaching units merged for the university. The original 170-hectare campus has been expanded to include 89 hectares in the Tel Aviv district. [7] [8] In The World University rankings, QS university rankings and Shanghai rankings, it is consistently one of the best academic institutions in the world. [9] [10] Tel Aviv University Law School has signed exchange contracts with 36 foreign universities[27] including: University of Virginia, Cornell University, Boston University, UCLA, Bucerius (Germany), EBS (Germany), McGill (Canada), Osgoode Hall (Canada), Ottawa (Canada), [28] Queens University (Queens), Toronto (Canada), Bergen (Norway), STL (China), KoGuan (China), Tsing Jindal Global (India), University of Hong Kong , Singapore Management University, Stockholm University (Sweden), Monash (Australia), Sydney (Australia), Sciences Po (France), Seoul (South Korea), Lucerne (Switzerland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bocconi (Italy) [29] and Madrid (Spain). [28] Tel Aviv University International, in collaboration with the Tau`s Buchmann Faculty of Legal Sciences, offers a program for international law science students wishing to study law at Tel Aviv University. Qualified law students who are not eligible for an existing exchange contract with partner universities may instead participate in this semester or a one-year program. In Germany, Tel Aviv University cooperates with Goethe University in Frankfurt-on-Main. The two cities are bound by a long-term partnership agreement. [31] In 2013, the QS World University Rankings took 196th place at Tel Aviv University, making it Israel`s second highest university. The rankings were: 202nd in the humanities, 295th in engineering and technology, 193rd in life sciences and medicine, 208th in science and 240th in social sciences and management.
The origins of the TAU date back to 1956, when three research institutes were grouped together: the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics (founded in 1935), the Institute of Natural Sciences, founded in 1931, and the Institute of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. Originally operated by the municipality of Tel Aviv, the university gained its autonomy in 1963, and George S. Wise was its first president, from that year to 1971. [11] [12] In the same year, the Ramat Aviv campus was built with an area of 0.69 km2. His successor was Yuval Ne`eman from 1971 to 1977, Haim Ben-Shahar from 1977 to 1983, Moshe Many from 1983 to 1991, Yoram Dinstein from 1991 to 1999, Itamar Rabinovich from 1999 to 2006, Zvi Galil from 2006 to 2009, Joseph Klafter from 2009 to 2019 and Ariel Porat from 2019. Ariel Porat, Dean of the Coller School of Management Moshe Zviran, raanan Rein, Vice President of Tau, Mr. Yoav Henis, Vice President of the TAU, Minister of Commerce, Mr. Jamal Sowell of Florida, the Tau Faculty and members of the 90-member DeSantis delegation in Israel.