Editing Bar-Ilan University (section)

{{short description|Public research university in Ramat Gan, Israel}}
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{{Infobox university
|name                 = Bar-Ilan University
|motto                = Impacting tomorrow, today
|native_name          = {{native name|he|אוניברסיטת בר-אילן}}
|image                = Bar Ilan seal.svg
|image_size           = 150px
|established          = 1955
|type                 = [[Public university|Public]] [[research university|research]]
|endowment            = 
|faculty              = 
|president            = [[Arie Zaban]]
|administrative_staff = 1,250
<!--|administration  = 1,192-->
|principal            = Zohar Yinon
|rector               = [[Amnon Albeck]]
|chancellor           = 
|vice_chancellor      = 
|dean                 = 
|students             = 20,000
|doctoral             = 2,200+
|other_name           = BIU
|colors               = {{color box|darkgreen}} {{color box|skyblue}} Dark green and sky blue
|city                 = [[Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District]]
|country              = Israel
|campus               = Urban
|free_label           = 
|free                 = 
|website              = {{URL|https://www.biu.ac.il}}
|logo                 =
|coordinates          = {{coord|32|4|4|N|34|50|33|E|source:hewiki_region:IL_type:edu|display=title,inline}}
}}
{{Infobox US university ranking
| QS_W = = 671-680
| THES_W = 501-600
| ARWU_W = 401–500
}}
[[File:Biu Aerial photograph of Bar-Ilan University (21004322376).jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of Bar-Ilan University]]
[[File:בנין פסיכולוגיה ע'ש אנה ומקס ווב ומשפחתם (11795059335) - fixed.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Anna & Max Webb and Family Psychology Building at the Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel]]
'''Bar-Ilan University''' ('''BIU''', {{langx|he|אוניברסיטת בר-אילן}}, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public [[research university]] in the [[Tel Aviv District]] city of [[Ramat Gan]], Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 students and 1,350 [[Faculty (university)|faculty]] members.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bar-Ilan University - BIU |url=https://www.biu.ac.il/en |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.biu.ac.il}}</ref>

Bar-Ilan's mission is to "blend [[Jews|Jewish]] tradition with modern technologies and scholarship and the university endeavors to ... teach the Jewish heritage to all its students while providing [an] academic education."<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bar-ilan-university Higher Education in Israel: Bar-Ilan University], [[Jewish Virtual Library]]
</ref> The university is among the best in the Middle East in the fields of computer science, engineering, engineering physics and applied physics.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-11 |title=Bar-Ilan University [2023 Rankings by topic] |url=https://edurank.org/uni/bar-ilan-university/rankings/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=EduRank.org - Discover university rankings by location |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-11 |title=Israel's best Applied/Engineering Physics universities [Rankings] |url=https://edurank.org/physics/applied/il/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=EduRank.org - Discover university rankings by location |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, the university was donated $260 million, one of the biggest donations to a university in Israeli history.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transformative gift of $260 million to Bar-Ilan University is one of the largest bequests ever to an Israeli university |url=https://www.biu.ac.il/en/article/580830 |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=www.biu.ac.il |language=en}}</ref>