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Technion triples Arab enrollment

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Published: 17 December 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

At Israel's MIT, education, not affirmative action, triples Arab enrollment – Dov Lieber – The Times of Israel 16.12.16
Technion offers hopefuls a 10-month ‘boot camp’ in maths, physics, English and Hebrew, funded by Jewish philanthropy. In 2004, its dropout rate for first-year Arab students was 75%; today, it is 15%.

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