Page 9 - Jerash University Strategic Plan

The approval of the Ministry of Higher
Education to establish this university
was granted in 1992, and teaching
process started in the University in
1993. It was the first private university in
northern Jordan, it is the major private
investment institution at the level of
Jerash Governorate; the University was,
and will always remain, God willing,
contributor to solving the problems of
poverty and unemployment. The
University graduated more than 23.000
students with the bachelor’s degree,
and more than 700 students with
the master’s degree.
Hence, the University provided the public and private sectors with
distinguished professional cadres, including judges in courts, representatives
in legislative councils, teachers in schools, accountants in companies, and
engineers in contracting and agriculture fields.

Jerash University is located on an area of more than three hundred dunams.
The area of the University’s buildings is approximately 70.000 square meters.
It includes eleven faculties: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Educational Sciences,
Faculty of Business, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Sharia, Faculty of Science,
Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of
Information Technology, and Faculty of Agriculture.

The University contains also three deanships: Deanship of Scientific Research
and Graduate Studies, Deanship of Accreditation and Quality, and Deanship
of Student Affairs.

There are three centers: Languages Center, the Consulting and Community
Service Center, and the Computer Center.

As for the bachelor's majors, the University offers 23 majors for bachelor
degree, and 9 majors master degree.

In addition, the University has a computerized scientific library encompassing
nearly 125.000 volumes and books; it also contains periodicals and scientific
journals covering all disciplines.