This is a list of
universities and
colleges in the
State of Palestine, which comprises both the
West Bank and the
Gaza Strip. The West Bank and Gaza together had 14 universities, an open university for distance learning, 18 university colleges and 20 community colleges.
Ariel University[14] in the illegal settlement of Ariel. The upgrade of its status from a college to a university was highly controversial within Israel itself (see
Ariel University for details).