Bagrut
Your matriculation certificate
Details
A full Bagrut of at least 20 units, including English at 4–5 units with 55+, mathematics at 3+ units, a 5-unit (or enhanced) subject and one more general subject.
Bar-Ilan’s general bachelor’s requirements: Bagrut and psychometric are the main components, plus English and Hebrew thresholds; each program sets its own criteria. From the 2027/28 registration season the two-domain psychometric score is used and English is a separate threshold.
Every bachelor’s program here starts from these. Each program adds its own threshold.
Your matriculation certificate
A full Bagrut of at least 20 units, including English at 4–5 units with 55+, mathematics at 3+ units, a 5-unit (or enhanced) subject and one more general subject.
The psychometric entrance exam (200–800)
Bagrut and psychometric are the main components; some programs admit without the psychometric exam.
Bagrut and psychometric are the main components; some programs admit without the psychometric exam.
Psychometric English section or AMIRNET
85+ on the psychometric English section (sittings to September 2026) or AMIRNET. Higher: English linguistics and literature 120, six-year medicine 120, PKM 110 (psychometric route), medical imaging 100.
YAEL or YAELNET, if your school did not teach in Hebrew
Required for a foreign Bagrut, or a non-Hebrew high school together with a psychometric in another language: YAEL 105+. 120+ for medical imaging, single-major psychology, social work, the economics tracks, the Hakham program and six-year medicine.
Official name: מדעי המחשב
Official name: משפטים
Official name: מדעי החיים
Official name: עבודה סוציאלית
Official name: ביוטכנולוגיה
Official name: הנדסת חשמל
Official name: מתמטיקה
Official name: פיזיקה
Official name: כימיה
Official name: תקשורת
Official name: הנדסת מחשבים
Official name: כלכלה
Official name: פסיכולוגיה
What this university publishes about scholarships and financial aid.
Official name: אילנות
Ilanot supports selected high-achieving undergraduates with three years of tuition and living support. Selection is separate from admission.
Follow the application steps on the official page. The institution decides who receives it.
Continued support requires semester average 90+, reports, first-year seminar and university representation.
Official name: מלגת הצטיינות לתואר ראשון ע"ש ד"ר מורטי כ"ץ
For graduates of religious-Zionist frameworks: hesder yeshiva, Torah pre-military academies, Torah midrasha, or yeshiva gvoha with IDF enlistment. It is for first-year bachelor's students only and is awarded on excellence, using a weighted score of matriculation average and psychometric. It covers one degree framework and is not for medicine. It goes only to admitted students who registered courses by the opening of the academic year. University tuition scholarships cannot be combined, except for High Institute for Torah students. Stopping studies cancels it. The rate is calculated from the CHE basic bachelor's tuition, and each year's scope and eligible groups depend on available funds.
Send the study confirmation to the Admissions Office by the start of the academic year. The office checks it, and eligibility depends on that check.
An original study confirmation from your institution, with the scope of hours, signature, stamp, and start and end dates. Send it to the Admissions Office by the opening of the academic year; later confirmations are not accepted.
The scholarship is funded by the university's friends abroad. Recipients write a personal thank-you letter of half a page to a page, preferably in English.
Official name: הלוואות לטווח ארוך
Interest-free, non-index-linked loans from the Dean of Students, credited against tuition and repaid when the current degree ends. The page does not restrict them by degree level. Repayment is one bank transfer or up to 10 post-dated cheques, with a an amount stated on the official page bank fee per cheque. Two guarantors are required, each earning a net salary of at least an amount stated on the official page (not benefits). The borrower's spouse cannot be a guarantor, and the two guarantors cannot be a couple.
Email the request to halvaot.services@biu.ac.il. The loan contract is sent back by email for signature.
Full name, ID number, requested amount, expected degree completion date, and ID copies and payslips of both guarantors.