Ariel University

Overview

Ariel University

Ariel University is a public research university located in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. It was founded in 1982 as the Ariel University Center of Samaria, a regional branch college of Bar-Ilan University. The college became an independent entity in the 2004-05 academic year. In 2012, the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria voted to grant the institution full university status. Ariel University is the largest public college in Israel.

Ariel University Key Statistics

The university comprises three faculties and four schools, which are further divided into 35 departments. These include the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the School of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the School of Medicine, and the School of Architecture.

Ariel University has a population of 16,000 students. It employs 495 senior faculty members. The university has a branch campus in Tel Aviv.

The major library of Ariel university houses a collection of 350,000 titles, 25,000 journals in full text, and subscriptions to a hundred journals in Hebrew and about 40 in English in hard copy.

Other Ariel University key statistics include its membership in the International Association of Universities. The university has also signed academic cooperation agreements with over 51 higher education institutions around the world, including the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Brazil, and Portugal.

Ariel University Research

Research at the university is mostly funded by organizations like the National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science, the U.S.-Israel Binational Foundation for Science, the Germany-Israel Binational Research Foundation, and the Israeli Association for Research and Education Funds.

The university's top three research fields are psychology, mathematics, and medicine. Its researchers have been published in major scholarly journals like Science, Social Science Research Network, and IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. Moreover, its researchers have been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences, such as Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems, the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the Theory of Cryptography Conference.

The most cited publication from Ariel University research is Aarts et al.’s (2015) “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science,” published in Science, with a total of 6,212 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Amichai-Hamburger and Vinitzky’s (2010) “Social network use and personality,” which was published in Computers in Human Behavior and has received a total of 1,391 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Whyman et al.’s (2008) “The rigorous derivation of young, Cassie-Baxter and Wenzel equations and the analysis of the contact angle hysteresis phenomenon,” published in Chemical Physics Letters. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 516 times so far.

The university has 25 research centers and 132 research labs. These include the Middle East and Central Asia Research Center, the Integrative Brain Science Center, the Center for Radical Reactions Research, and the Samson Family Wine Research Center.

Its other research units include the Center for Radical Reactions Research, the Energy Research Center, the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, and the Heritage Center for the Study of The Kingdom of Israel.