Amman Arab University for Graduate Studies

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Amman Arab University was founded in 1999 as a non-profit private university specializing in graduate studies under Amman Arab University for Graduate Studies. It became the first University in Jordan that offers graduate programs leading to Masters and Doctoral Degrees. The Higher Education Accreditation Commission fully accredits the University in Jordan and a member of the Arab Universities Association and a member International Universities Association.

The University always endeavors to attain distinction and foster the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation in quality teaching, originality of research work, and community services. The University takes it upon itself to provide the job market and stakeholders with well-informed and well-trained graduates who are expected to excel in their professions and meet the demands and requirements desired by interested parties. The University also works industriously to nurture entrepreneurship potentials and creative ideas of its students and urge them to invest all energies and potentials to pursue and apply what they acquire in their work-life after graduation.

Moreover, the University is determined to be one of its kind in promoting scientific, critical, and creative thinking. It moves enthusiastically to achieve distinction through theory and practice-based teaching. The study plans are carefully fashioned to meet the demands and challenges of the market. The University aspires to be a modern and comprehensive university renowned locally, regionally, and internationally for its curriculum and study plans. Further, the University enhances pluralism and civilized thinking, and cultural integration; also, it disseminates the culture of understanding and tolerance; at the same time, it denounces all kinds of violence, fanaticism, and prejudice.

Two phases have passed. The first started with the early inception of the University in 1999 as specialized only in graduate studies. The second began when the University became more comprehensive and launched several undergraduate programs in 2009. In turn, its name changed to Amman Arab University. Since its inception up to the present time, the University has provided the local and Arab community with highly qualified graduates, taught and nurtured at the hand of distinguished faculty members who acquired Graduate Degrees at various universities, local, regional, and international.

The University harbors seven Faculties: the Faculty of Educational and Psychological Sciences, the Faculty of Business, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Computer Sciences and Information System, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Pharmacy, in addition to the Deanship of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies and Deanship of Students Affairs.

Recently, the University has scored a new accomplishment when accredited among the top 100 universities in the Arab World according to QS Classification, moving 120 points ahead of last year classification, also rated the seventh among the Jordanian universities and the third among the private Jordanian universities.

Our chief mission is to produce graduates equipped with critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong learning trends. Our students acquire essential skills and knowledge that enable them to live up to challenges and to become leaders in their communities and to support quality research and innovation of both faculty members and students who may invest their knowledge and expertise to promote continuous quality improvement and to build an effective partnership with the community via the following objectives:

• To maintain the academic programs to keep abreast of the national and international standards.
• To disseminate quality assurance education and constant innovation in academic and administrative pursuits.
• To enrich theoretical and practical knowledge in accord with ethical and societal standards.
• To facilitate students' skills and trends for entrepreneurship, self-learning, teamwork, and decent competition.
• To embrace the ethics and conventions of academic research and emphasize its importance in achieving continuous evolvement.
• To consolidate the character of University and its participation in community service.
• To build an academic community that embraces interaction and integration and encourage the spirit of teamwork among students and faculty members.

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