Directness is everything
Israeli teams say what they think, to anyone, immediately. Learn to work that way at the beginning of your career and every meeting you will ever be part of in the future will feel easy.
Locations / Middle East
Tel Aviv
Spend your NOC term inside an Israeli startup while taking classes at Reichman University. You will learn to think out loud, debate, and defend your position with colleagues more senior than you from day one.
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Partner uni
Reichman University
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Format
Full Year -
Intake
August -
Audience
Undergraduates only
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Ecosystem
Deep tech -
Cohort size
~25 students per intake
About Tel Aviv
Rearrange your view of normal.
Israel spends more of its economy on research and development than any country in the world, roughly twice what the United States spends, and it has more tech startups for its size than anywhere else. Ten million people, yet ninety companies are worth over a billion dollars. Google, Microsoft, Intel and Apple all run research centres here. You spend your term inside one of the startups this ecosystem produces.
Israeli teams are direct to a degree that lands as rude for about a fortnight. You will be asked what you think and expected to have an answer, and the person who disagrees with you most loudly will buy you lunch afterwards. There is a word for it, chutzpah, and NOC alumni list learning it alongside pitching and public speaking as one of the skills the year gave them. If you have spent twenty years being polite to people more senior than you, this is the hardest and most useful skill you will learn.
The working week runs Sunday to Thursday, and from Friday evening to Saturday evening most of the country stops. That gives you a weekend that lines up with nothing you are used to, and a term with time in it. The desert is two hours south, Jerusalem is one hour east, and the beach is at the end of your street.
Why Tel Aviv?
A culture built on arguing its way to better answers.
Classes at Reichman
Reichman graduates are prolifically entreprenurial, and almost half of their founders met their co-founder at university. You take entrepreneurship classes there alongside your internship.
Unparalleled R&D
Israel puts a larger share of its economy into research and development than any other country. They attract the most innovative organisations in the world to learn from their ways.
Partner university
Reichman University
You take classes on entrepreneurship at Recihman part-time while the internship runs. Four of your thirty-six NOC units come from those classes. The other thirty-two come from your internship.
Reichman opened in 1994 and its graduates have founded hundreds of startups, fourteen of which are worth over a billion dollars. A third were founded while the founders were still students or within two years of leaving,
A year in Tel Aviv
What our students say
NOC Tel Aviv placed me inside a startup environment where coursework, internship work, and the local ecosystem all connected. It changed how I think about building companies.
The strongest part was learning beside founders and classmates at the same time. You see how the Israel market works, then bring those lessons back to NUS.
NOC Student
NOC Tel Aviv Alumnus | Aug 2023 Intake | NUS Business School | BBA
NOC Student
NOC Tel Aviv Alumna | Jan 2024 Intake | NUS College of Design and Engineering
Practical info
The things you'll need to know before committing to Tel Aviv.
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Cost of living [ $$$ ]
SGD 1,800
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Accommodation
NOC supports housing search. Students often take over the previous cohort's flat
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Stipend & awards
Most students receive an internship stipend from their host company. NOC awards available via Awards & Scholarships
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Visa
A2 student visa, applied for in person at the embassy in Singapore. Housing and flights must be booked first
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Language
English Hebrew -
Climate
Mediterranean Dry -
Time zone
UTC+2 -
Getting around
Rav-Kav card for bus and rail. Most students buy a second-hand bicycle
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Work Week
Sunday to Thursday. Most things close from Friday evening to Saturday evening
Curriculum
Faculty-mapped courses for NOC Tel Aviv: units, intakes, and academic structure.
Apply for NOC Tel Aviv
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