🇵🇸 How to apply to university in Palestine

There is no central application system: you apply to each institution directly. Programmes usually start: Each university sets its own calendar and announces its own application dates.

Checked on 22 October 2026 against the official sources listed below.

The essentials

Application system: None — apply to each institution on its own website.
When programmes start: Each university sets its own calendar and announces its own application dates.
International applicants: International students apply to each university directly, usually through its international office; there is no separate national route.
Language: Arabic for most programmes; ask each university which language its programme is taught in.

Key dates

There is no central application system and no national dates: each university announces when applications open. Check the university's admissions page.

The dates for the next intake haven't been published yet. We add them once the official source does.

Your checklist

The usual steps for an international student applying to a bachelor's in Palestine, in order. Tick them off as you go — your ticks stay in this browser, with no account.

1.Choose a university or college and a programme — each institution admits directly.
2.Check the programme's minimum secondary-school (Tawjihi) average: each university sets its own every year, and admission is competitive on the average and the number of places.
3.Ask the university what it needs to recognise a secondary certificate from outside Palestine.
4.Apply to the university during the dates it announces, with the documents it asks for.
5.International applicants: contact the university's international office before applying (An-Najah National University asks them to).
6.Arrange entry: An-Najah National University says visas for foreigners are issued by the Israeli authorities, not the Palestinian Authority, and that it cannot guarantee them.
7.Ask the university for its fees — An-Najah counts its fees in Jordanian dinars.

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Next steps

Sources

Written by CollegeMatcher in our own words from these official pages, checked on 22 October 2026. Dates change every year.

Ministry of Education and Higher Education — guidance bulletin 2025/26