a Quarter of the students in Israel study engineering and computer science

The number of engineering students topped the number of social science students in the past school year, according to data published by the Council for Higher Education. In total, 34.6 thousand students studied engineering, 18.3% of all students. 34 thousand studied social sciences (17.9%). If the mathematics and computer sciences are added, where about 15,500 students studied, they understand that a quarter of all students in Israel study engineering and computer science, which are the core of Israeli high-tech
The number of engineering students has increased by 7.5% in the last 6 years. However, there has been a sharp drop in the number of social science students of 20% in the number of students in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The increase in the number of engineering students stems, inter alia, from the incentives allocated by the Committee for the Planning and Budgeting of Higher Education in the amount of hundreds of millions of shekels. The incentives are intended to absorb students and to upgrade
The infrastructure of research and teaching. The Council for Higher Education believes that the trend is expected to continue to expand in the coming years as well.
At the beginning of the decade there was a high demand for law studies and business administration, but it has declined in recent years. The number of law students dropped from 16,500 to 13.2 thousand within six years. At the same time, the number of students in business administration dropped from 22,600 to 18,400. The number of students in Humanities, Art and Design also dropped by 2,000, from 19,000 to 17,000.