Peres Academic Center bestows honors to students who have reached remarkable academic achievements.
Graduation honors are bestowed as follows:
The top 7% in each department will graduate Magna Cum Laude.
The top 3% of them will graduate Summa Cum Laude.
Honors bestowed on the completion of each school year (3 semesters)
During their BA studies, high-achieving students in compliance the conditions detailed below will receive a certificate noting their achievements throughout such school year.
There are two levels of honors:
- President’s List – the top 3% in each department, on the condition that they accumulated all academic credits specified below during the relevant school year.
- Dean’s List/Head of Department’s List – the following 4%, on the condition that they accumulated all academic credits specified below during the relevant school year.
Minimum number of academic credits for inclusion in the honors list:
Actual completion of 85% of the valid credits for each school year, in each school.
The required number of academic credits for school year 2023:
| Social Sciences BA | Business Administration BA | Health systems management | Nutrition studies | Management Information Systems | Dual-major in Business Adm. & Behavioral Sciences |
HR Management | Law studies | |
| 1st year | 36 credits | 36 credits | 36 credits | 41 credits | 28 credits | 35 credits | 37 credits | 34 credits |
| 2nd year | 37 credits | 33 credits | 32 credits | 38 credits | 35 credits | - | 36 credits | 36 credits |
| 3rd year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 38 credits |
The Teaching Committee has the right to amend the criteria for honors bestowed every year.
Any student convicted by a disciplinary committee will not have the right to be awarded with honors.
Eligibility for honors is not automatic, but rather requires the approval of the Teaching Committee, which has the right to take other factors into consideration, such as number of courses failed, duration of studies, conviction by the disciplinary committee, etc.
Certificate of appreciation for special activities
Peres Academic Center recognizes social excellent as a value to encourage and cultivate.
Special activities are activities that go beyond the students’ personal needs and interests throughout their studies (for example, mentorship volunteering, organization of ceremonies at the Center, community volunteering and work, and more).
Students who contributed in one or more areas defined as “special activities” by the program will be brought for discussion before a committee headed by the Dean of Students. The committee will decide which students will receive certificates of appreciation.
Such certificates are intended to empower the students in their work, and encourage them to continue with their valuable work, to expand and develop it to new horizons, and to encourage additional students to contribute, volunteer, initiate, make an impact, affect positive change, and develop original and creative ways for improving life within and outside of the academic community.
The Center will not be obligated to grant appreciation certificates every year.