The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo (MTA) was founded in 1994 by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv University, and the Israel Council of Higher Education (CHE), as an independent public college. MTA has 4,000 students and over 8,000 alumni. Academic streams include five undergraduate programs and five graduate programs. MTA’s record of academic excellence and its reputation among the Israeli business community as a center of outstanding professionals, has led both the Israeli Ministry of Health and the Council of Higher Education to approach the College with an appeal to open additional degree tracks in the field of healthcare science and establish the Health Sciences Building.