Schools
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (2022), Be'er Sheva has about 300 kindergartens and preschools with roughly 9,000 children, and 99 schools: 60 elementary schools and 39 high schools. 90% of the city's 12th graders earned a bagrut (matriculation) certificate in 2022. There are also private schools and yeshivot in the religious sector. Children are placed in state schools and gans by address, through the municipality's education department. See school listings.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University was founded in 1969 and has its main urban campus in the Dalet neighbourhood, next to Soroka and the North–University station. It has three campuses in Be'er Sheva.
Colleges
The city also has the Open University, Shamoon College of Engineering, Kaye Academic College of Education, the Practical Engineering College of Beersheba and a campus of the Israeli Air and Space College.
Chess
Thanks to immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Be'er Sheva is Israel's national chess centre, with more grandmasters per capita than any other city; chess is taught in the city's kindergartens.