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).