Bethlehem University

Bethlehem University of the Holy Land is a Catholic Christian co-educational institution of higher learning founded in 1973 in the Lasallian tradition, open to students of all faith traditions.

Bethlehem University, the first university established in the West Bank, and can trace its roots to 1893 when the De La Salle Christian Brothers opened schools in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Nazareth, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.

Bethlehem University provides quality higher education which forms the whole person in the context of a learning community that provides mind- and heart-touching transformative learning experiences through its academic programs, research, extracurricular activities, and community engagement. Its inherited pursuit of Truth through the study of the humanities and the sciences, drives Bethlehem University, a research-informed and teaching institution, to serve as a center for the ethical production, advancement, sharing and use of theoretical and practical knowledge.