Zarqa University

Zarqa University (ZU) was founded in 1994 in a strategic location to the east of Zarqa City, just six kilometers away, to be the first private University in Zarqa Governorate, with an area that reached three hundred and fifty acres. The University aims at going in parallel lines with the objectives and the strategies of public and private Jordanian universities. It also supports the Jordanian higher education system's different goals and meets the scientific, social, economic, cultural, and human needs.

The University started with six colleges that comprised one hundred and fifty students enrolled in twenty majors. In 2017/2018, the number of students has increased to reach about eight thousand students distributed on thirteen colleges, including seven humanities faculties and six scientific faculties. The University comprises forty-four undergraduate majors and postgraduate programs in English Language and Literature, Accounting, Computer Science, Mathematics, Marketing, Software Engineering, Business Administration, Intellectual Property, and Islamic Banking. It also includes three deanships, Deanship of Scientific Research, Student Affairs, and Evening Studies, and five centers: Islamic Cultural Centre, Computer Centre, Language Centre, Centre of Continuing Education and Community Service, E-learning Centre, and Energy Research Center. Other administrative departments such as the Admission and Registration Department, Library, and the Development and Quality Assurance Unit.

Zarqa University has proved its presence among other universities since it was founded thorough working on achieving three essential objectives First, offering quality education that provides students with the knowledge and the essential skills they need in order to upgrade their academic achievements, achieve comprehensive and integrated development of their personalities, prepare them for the future and form their positive perspectives. Second, The University tends to reinforce scientific research that is considered an essential factor in achieving scientific improvement and sustainable development. Third, The University also contributes to serving and helping the local, national, regional, and international communities through the promotion of cultural enrichment, providing educational opportunities, holding scientific and cultural conferences and the training courses not only for the members of the Jordanian society but also to Arab and foreign members through its specialized centers.

Believing in its scientific-practical and humanitarian mission, the University seeks to achieve excellence and leadership through providing the community with modern academic majors that meet its needs for developing its institutions, employing a group of dedicated experts and scholars in their areas and polarizing a large number of non-Jordanian students from sixty Arab and foreign nationalities. It also introduces information and communication technology to its facilities and their activities.

Core Values

• The freedom and individuality of thought and viewpoints are the basis of academic and social development.
• University education is the starting point of the full utilization of human energy, creative talents, and professional skills.
• Creativity is limitless when adequately sponsored by good patronage.
• Academic research is a means to improve living conditions.
• We are after quality in all fields and on all levels.

The University has been chosen as a host of many well known scientific conferences and associations such as the Arab conference on Information Technology "AC"T" excellent 2000, in addition to the General Secretariat of the Association of Colleges of Computers and Information, emanating from the Arab Universities Union since 2007, which publishes the International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT), which is an indexed journal by Thompson (ISI), as well as the General Secretariat of the International Arab Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education (IACQA) since 2011, and the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities (APETAU) since 2016, which publishes the International Journal of Arabic and English Studies. The University also helps students financially, as it offers a range of discounts, grants, and exemptions from tuition fees, up to 70% for many specializations.

Zarqa Journal for Research and Studies in Humanities is the leading Journal of the University. It started in 1999 and is published quarterly by the Deanship of Scientific Research. The journal publishes in Arabic and English and is internationally indexed in Ulrich'stabase.

The University was awarded the (ISO) certificate in 2009, which is accomplished through careful planning between the Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees, and the University Administration, who work as one team. It also obtained the Crown International Quality Certificate from the UK in 2015.

Our Mission:

• The training and graduation of a trained and qualified workforce compatible with the needs of the local, regional, and international markets.
• Conducting applied academic research for the development of the local community.