The Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee (Hebrew: המכללה האקדמית כנרת בעמק הירדן), also known as Kinneret College and Academic Kinneret (As part of rebranding in February 2019), is a college located on the southern shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. History The College was established in 1965 by Emek HaYarden Regional Council as a secondary school named Emek HaYarden Regional College for the people of the Jordan Valley and the Galilee region, which is reflected in the multi-cultural and multi-faith background of the student population: Jewish and Arab, secular and religious. Upon its establishment, the College allowed the locals to study on the afternoons and evenings, while maintaining their chores and routine assignments. Furthermore, the College conducted bachelor's degree completion studies for local tutors, since the College was affiliated with Bar Ilan University, as well as a curriculum for an engineer's degree, courtesy of the Technion, up until the inauguration of Achi Racov School of Engineering, in 2012. Prior to the inauguration of its first official building, in October 1974, the College was operating from the Avraham Haft Youth Center in Samakh. In 1983, the College established a preparatory school, which combined studies with work in the kibbutzim of the area (Afikim, Masada, Degania Alef, Degania Bet, etc.), though nowadays the prep school's program no longer includes such working. In its first year, the College had 60 students enrolled to its study programs. By 1969, 300 students were accounted for enrolling. About 450 students, by 1971. And from 1974, the college was educating about 500 students, which has been increasing every year since. Academic Units and Facilities School of Humanities and Social Science Tourism and Hotel Management (As of 2004) Communication studies (As of 2009) Behavioural sciences (As of 2010) Land of Israel studies (As of 2010) Education and Community Interdisciplinarity Human Resources Management Achi Racov School of Engineering Water Industry Engineering(As of 2010) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (As of 2004) Software Engineering (As of 2004) Gas and Petroleum Energy Engineering (As of 2004) Reliability and Quality engineering for the electronics industry. The department works in cooperation with the Israel Society for Quality, which organizes conferences and professional seminars on campus (As of 2010). The unit's curriculum received a rating of "High Achievement" by the Technological Preparation Institute from the Ministry of Labor. Kinneret Innovation Center for Entrepreneurship Inaugurated in February 2019, the Center