Pumbedita Academy (sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa; Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא) was a Jewish yeshiva (academy of higher learning analogous to a high school or preparatory school) in Babylon during the era of the Jewish Amora and Gaonim sages. The academy was founded at the beginning of the second generation of the Amora era by R. Judah ben Ezekiel and with the Sura Academy was active as an influential and dominant Jewish academy for about 800 years.