University of Haifa - International Graduate Programs

In today’s disruptive reality, the public sector must constantly address complex dynamic challenges with effective and innovative tools and solutions. Consequently, policy makers, government officials, and public administrators are in need of practical and professional training, designed for quickly adapting in a rapidly changing environment. Ranked 37th in the world in this field, our international MPA program specializing in Public Administration, Public Management and Policy Studies, offers state of the art public policymaking and management skills on economic, social, and political levels. These include advanced theoretical knowledge and practical tools, tailored to the needs of the public sector in the 21st century.
Highlights
By leveraging Israel’s dynamic public policy landscape, this program offers future decision-makers a unique opportunity to gain theoretical and practical tools for understanding and addressing today’s key economic, social, and political challenges.
Local and global economic-political analysis.
Strategic management in disruptive environments.
Policy challenges related to cyber-security, immigration, climate, finance, and trade.
Leadership, management, and ethics in policy making.
Academic tours, guest lecturers, and round-table seminars.

UHaifa International’s MA in Archaeological Sciences offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity to combine Israel’s rich archaeological record with cutting-edge scientific research and technology. The first program of its kind in Israel, it takes a multidisciplinary, science-focused approach to archaeology, equipping students with tools for careers in research, heritage, and education.

Part of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures (SAMC), the program benefits from unique integration of land, sea, and lab-based research under one roof, alongside a global academic network.

Students gain hands-on experience analyzing ceramics, metals, bones, and sediments in advanced labs, and participate in real excavation and research projects. The program collaborates with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, offering eligible students dedicated scholarships.

Highlights:
• Combines archaeology with natural, exact, and computer sciences
• Offers practical training with expert faculty and cutting-edge labs
• Focus on human evolution, culture, and technology in the Southern Levant

The University of Haifa, an academic center of excellence and Israel’s most sustainable research institution according to Times Global Impact Ranking, has recently launched its most innovative impact-for-good Master’s program in Environmental Intelligence. One of a kind in Israel, the program exclusively trains students to navigate the complex intersection of environmental science and technology to gain professional expertise in an exponentially growing field, alongside a competitive edge and vast career opportunities in the job market.

Program Highlights
As Environmental Intelligence is at the forefront of technological innovation, the program addresses the global demand for skilled professionals to help revolutionize environmental management. Our study program incorporates:

A unique focus on technological innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) to gain insights from Earth observation and novel digital big data sources.
An interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge from environmental science, data science, geography, economics, and management
Theoretical knowledge alongside experiential learning and hands-on projects in real world settings and business collaborations
Leadership, management, and ethics in policy making.
Expertise to implement environmental intelligence solutions in business and public sectors

Since the dawn of history, the seashore and ocean depths, their molecular life mechanisms and dynamic marine ecosystems, have always been a mystery to us. Nestled at the edge of the Eastern Mediterranean, our international MSc in Marine Biology has been addressing this mystery by leveraging our natural surroundings into an innovative global learning hub for researchers and students worldwide.
Under the auspices of the University of Haifa’s globally renowned Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, our world class researchers provide students with the necessary knowledge, tools, skills, and experiential learning to become groundbreaking marine scientists.
Highlights
• Incorporating hands-on research of the Mediterranean Sea to understand and address major marine environmental challenges.
• A diverse course offering, including educational cruises, research dives, and lab work.
• Explore marine life at multiple levels, from top predators to genes and molecules underlying life in the oceans.
• Acquiring in-depth knowledge of topics and processes in marine biology and oceanography, from genes through organisms to ecosystems.
• Developing skills to plan, perform, and analyze complex experiments in the lab and at sea, using state-of-the-art techniques and equipment.
• Experience in writing and presenting scientific data, for both academic and non-academic purposes.

UHaifa International’s unique MA program in MPH provides future health care leaders and researchers with cutting-edge knowledge and skills to address tomorrow’s complex challenges in the rapidly-changing field of global public health. Specializing in Health Systems Administration and Global Health Leadership, we equip our students with state of the art theoretical knowledge and the required multidisciplinary practical training, to manage comprehensive cross-cutting, multi-sectoral health issues on local and global scales. This value offer provides our graduates with a competitive edge when pursuing professional careers in both the public and business sectors.
Highlights
• Develop personal and organizational leadership skills for careers in public and global health.
• Gain knowledge, tools, and perspectives to address multicultural public health challenges.
• Acquire skills in planning, evaluating, and implementing health programs and policies.
• Learn core public health disciplines such as epidemiology and biostatistics.
• Training in key health management areas: ethics, policy, and health economics.
• (APE) Observe real-world public health systems and apply learned strategies.
• Learn from professionals and global experts in emerging areas such as climate and environmental health, vaccines, occupational health, and through collaboration with the WHO Centre .

In recent years, Environmental, Social and Governance factors (ESG) have become crucial in the business arena. Today, companies worldwide that seek success, acknowledgement and financial investment must be socially responsible, embrace sustainable business practices and demonstrate high ESG rankings. Accordingly, the demand for ESG professionals has never been higher. This includes Sustainability Experts, ESG Analysts, ESG Consultants, Energy & Climate Experts, Corporate Social Responsibility Experts and more. As Israel is rated a global leader in the innovation of clean technologies, renewable energy and water solutions, and the University of Haifa is the first to align to the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) we are committed to address this pressing issue. This is why we have designed our unique international MBA Program in Sustainability to provide future global leaders with cutting-edge ESG-related knowledge and tools for real-time sustainable business management and environmental leadership.
Highlights
• Practical core ESG-related courses aimed at developing crucial sustainable business leadership skills for today’s global workplace.
• Green business entrepreneurship courses designed to learn, practice, meet with industry leaders.
• An applied final project in a real-world business setting.
• A growing professional network of globally renowned experts

Situated in the heart of the Middle East, in Israel’s most culturally diverse city, bringing together students from all countries and religions, UHaifa International’s sought-after Master of Arts in Peace & Conflict Management is an authentic human lab for peacebuilding.

Introducing state-of-the-art multidisciplinary theory, practical intervention frameworks, and extra-curriculum fieldwork, this unique program trains students to transform conflict into peace, on both local and global levels.

Professional or aspiring policy makers, diplomats, group facilitators, counsellors and more, can greatly benefit from this hands-on, real-world oriented program.

Program Highlights:
An invaluable opportunity to experience, understand and address local and global conflicts, especially specific conflicts in Israeli society and the Middle East.
Provides theoretical knowledge and practical tools to deal with real-world ethno-national conflicts and peace building.
Based on a multidisciplinary curriculum, including Social Sciences, Psychology, International Relations and Social Work.
Incorporates a practical internship at relevant peacebuilding and conflict management organizations.
Includes field trips throughout Israel connected to local and regional conflicts.
Introduces real-time simulations of decision-making, negotiations, and conflict management.

The UHaifa International Master of Arts program in Modern German and European Studies provides students with in-depth knowledge of Germany and its role in the European Union. Since our Haifa Center for German & European Studies (HCGES) cooperates with local and global academic departments and programs, our students also benefit from the opportunity to focus on European-related issues and perspectives.
Our interdisciplinary curriculum offers relevant courses in the social sciences, humanities, economics and law, alongside German language classes and research project opportunities at the center for the History and Heritage of German-speaking Jewry in Israel (AGHJI). These courses prepare them for careers in relevant international, German, Israeli, and European interfaces, including academia, business, NGOs, diplomacy, tourism, communication, media, cultural and public administration.
Highlights:
• Educates a new generation of scholars in high-level interdisciplinary Modern German and European Studies.
• Offers students and interns, versatile curricular and extracurricular field activities.
• Incorporates German language classes and field trips to Germany.
• Includes relevant community events, lectures and panels to connect university members and the general public.
• Provides individual supervision to young researchers opting for the thesis-track.

The UHaifa International Master of Arts in Jewish Studies offers a wide perspective of Judaism that includes Biblical, Talmudic, historical, philosophical, and mystical levels of knowledge. From the Biblical to early Modern Era, our students expand their knowledge of all stages of Jewish history and thought.

Our International Master’s program is part of UHaifa’s School of Historical and Regional Studies, home to a wide range of study programs that collaborate in research and teaching. Its unique academic model provides students the freedom to choose from a variety of courses and extensive research options.

Highlights:
​Our 1-year program aims to:

Provide students a methodological basis and firsthand research sources for engaging in Jewish Studies, with emphasis on the relations between local and global Jewish cultures throughout history.
Combining theoretical knowledge with educational field trips to Israel’s key historical sites.
Offer diverse scholarships optional for eligible students.

For decades, the State of Israel has been addressing complex national security challenges. Designed in partnership with Israel’s globally renowned National Security College, the international Master of Arts in National Security Studies introduces students to pressing, complex, real-time national security dilemmas, conflicts, and processes in Israel and other regions. The program is ideal for students pursuing a career in governmental, security, and private organizations, who wish to explore and address strategic social, political, ethical, diplomatic, economic, and military dimensions of national security.

Program Highlights
Developed in collaboration with Israel’s National Security College, IDF’s highest course of study and the world’s leading educational institution for military, intelligence, and government executives from Europe, America, and Asia, our program offers:

Theoretical knowledge alongside practical tools and skills to address complex national security challenges and processes, in both private and public sectors.
Fascinating case studies on national security errors, learning curves and achievements which portray Israel’s unique role in the Middle East.
One Year, One Degree

The growing need for professionals and policymakers in early education and development has become crucial and urgent. UHaifa International’s MA Education & Development in Early Childhood has addressed this pressing issue by training the next generation of early childhood change-agents, able to improve the lives of children worldwide. Led by professional lecturers and researchers, our unique interdisciplinary impact program combines up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art practical skills, designed to positively promote children’s wellbeing. Childhood professionals such as educators, social workers, health professionals or therapists, researchers, policymakers, social activists, will greatly benefit from this program.
Highlights
• A holistic, globally focused curriculum that combines up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art practical skills, designed to promote children’s wellbeing.
• Strong international collaborations with globally renowned experts.
• Diverse courses and workshops that provide a comprehensive understanding of early education and child development.
• Includes developmental perspectives in early education, psychology, psychopathology, neuroscience, cognition, language, prevention and intervention, research methodology, parenting, cultural and anthropological perspectives.
• Real-world hands-on methods of clinical observation, assessment, and intervention.