Touro College was founded in New York City in 1970 by Dr. Bernard Lander as a Liberal Arts college. Since the 1970s, the expansion of the college has reached California, Nevada, Israel, Russia, and Germany.

In 2001, Dr. Lander asked Sara Nachama to work together and establish Touro College in Berlin. The decision to choose Germany’s capital as the new campus for Touro College was based on the college’s profound Jewish history and the unification of communities in Berlin. In the Fall Semester 2003, Touro Berlin opened with a class of 18 students studying the Bachelors in International Business program which eventually became the Bachelors in Business Management degree.

In 2005, Dr. Lander was inspired by a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and wanted to set up a Holocaust Institute at Touro. The Lander Institute for Communication and Tolerance was established on the Touro College Berlin campus in 2006. In the fall semester of 2007, the department welcomed its teaching staff for the Masters in Holocaust Communication program. The MBA program was introduced shortly after in 2010 and the Bachelor of Arts in Psychology was established in 2013.

Touro University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), 1007 North Orange Street, 4th Floor, MB #166, Wilmington, DE 19801, (267) 284-5011. The MSCHE is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. This accreditation status covers Touro University and its branch campuses, locations, and instructional sites in the New York Area, as well as branch campuses in Illinois, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Moscow.