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Facts and Highlights

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University Fast Facts

• A royal decree was issued in 1986 to establish the University.

• The University is awarded the Al Hussein Medal for Excellence.

• The late King Hussein bin Talal: Jordan University of Science and Technology is the Jewel of Jordanian universities.

• His Majesty King Abdullah II said about the university that JUST is the best scientific institution in Jordan. 

 

Location, space and buildings

  • The total area of the university is 11,000 dunums, and the maximum length of the university is 7 km, and the maximum width is 19 km.
  • ​The university buildings area is 415,822 square meters.
  • The area of the green area is 5,346 dunums, of which 550 dunums are planted with 532,200 forest trees, 2,970 dunums are planted with 48,778 fruit trees, 581 dunums are gardens, and 1,240 dunums are planted with field crops.
  • The university has an artificial lake with a surface area of 40,000 square meters and a capacity of 140,000 cubic meters.
  • The university has an earthen dam that is filled in the winter from Seoul, neighboring areas, with a capacity of 170,000 cubic meters.
  • The university has a solar power station with a capacity of 5 megawatts and a production capacity of about 7974 megawatts / hour. There is a plan to establish a 20 MW station.
  • The university has the founding King Abdullah University Hospital, which is a building consisting of a main tower that contains fifteen floors and low buildings consisting of three floors, with an area of ​​95,583 square meters, and a capacity of 678 beds that can be expanded to 819 beds in case of emergency, in addition to To the radiation building and its area is 2000 square meters.
  • The university has a field hospital with a capacity of 10 dunums. It can accommodate 300 beds, of which 50 are intensive care beds.

Human resource

  • The number of faculty members is 1040, of whom 32% are female.
  • The number of administrative and technical staff members is 1257, of whom 24% are female
  • ​The number of workers and employees in service jobs is 727, of whom 10% are females
  • 0.83: the ratio of faculty members to members of the administrative staff
  • The faculty members are distributed according to the countries of graduation to: 47.3% of the faculty members are graduates from the United States of America, 19.6% from European countries and Britain, 7.7% from Canada, 5.3% from Australia and New Zealand, 17.8% from Jordan graduates, 1.3% From East Asian countries, 1% from neighboring Arab countries.​ 

Faculties, programs and students

  • The university includes 12 colleges, one institute, 66 academic departments, 48 bachelor's programs, 57 master's programs, and two doctoral programs.
  • Graduates since the establishment of the university: 77,462 graduates, of whom (12,534) are of non-Jordanian nationalities.
  • Current number of students:
    • 29,818 undergraduate students.
    • 1921 ​Master's degree student, in addition to high specialization in medicine and high specialization in dentistry
    • 8 higher diploma students
    • 481 students of higher specialization
    • 21 PhD students
    • 4202 students of non-Jordanian nationalities (51 different nationalities), representing 14% of the total number of students.​


University Library 

  • The library's area is 12,500 square metres.
  • The library accommodates 2,500 visitors at the same time.
  • And an automatic return window over RFID. The loan and self-return service is available through the clock technology. This technology also allows the arrangement, weeding and automatic inventory of books through DLA devices.
  • The library contains 195,000 books, 50,000 volumes, 673,500 e-books, 58 databases with 161,210 electronic journals.

 University Rankings

  • THE Rank, In Young University Rankings 2022​: 106
  • THE Rank, In Clinical Pre-clinical & Health 2023​: 251 - 300
  • THE Rank, In Computer Science 20223: 401 - 500
  • THE Rank, In Arab University Rankings 2022: 43
  • THE Rank, In​ Asia University Rankings 2022: 78
  • THE Rank, In​ World University Rankings 2023: 501 - 600
  • QS Rank, In World University Rankings 2023: 801 - 1000
  • QS Rank, In Arab Region Rankings 2023: 16
  • QS Rank, In Top 50 Under 50 2021 Rankings: 101 - 150
  • QS Rank, In World Rankings by Subject (Medicine 2023): 351 - 400
  • QS Rank, In World Rankings by Subject (Computer Science and Information Systems 2023): 251 - 300
  • QS Rank, In World Rankings by Subject (Engineering and Technology 2023): 310
  • QS Rank, In World Rankings by Subject (Pharmacy and Pharmacology 2023): 251 - 300
  • UI GreenMetric Rank, In Rankings by Asia 2022: 88
  • UI GreenMetric Rank, In World Ranking 2022: 178
  • U.S. News & World Report Rank, In Best Global Universities 2023: 544
  • U.S. News & World Report Rank, In Best Global Universities in Asia 2023: 114
  • U.S. News & World Report Rank, In Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine 2023: 222
  • U.S. News & World Report Rank, In Best Global Universities for Engineering 2023: 487
  • ​U.S. News & World Report Rank, In Best Global Universities for Computer Science​ 2023: 365

 

University budget:

The university's budget for the year 2022 is about 105 million Jordanian dinars, part of which has been allocated for sustainability at a value of about 35 million Jordanian dinars.​

 

Scientific research:

  • The university allocates 5% of its budget to scientific research in addition to supporting external research (external local, external and global), as the total budget for scientific research is estimated at about 7 million dinars.
  • Scientific papers since the establishment of the university, 16,692 scientific papers, according to Scopus.
  • The university occupies the first place in terms of the scale of publications that are cited according to the international classification, as it reached more than (51,784) citations in the last five years.​

 

Global credits

  • College of Engineering: ABET accredited
  • College of Medicine: Accredited by ACGME, WFME​
  • College of Agriculture: ASIIN accredited
  • College of Architecture and Design: NAAB accredited
  • College of Computer and Information Technology - Department of Computer Engineering: Obtained ABET accreditation
  • College of Computer and Information Technology - Department of Computer Information Systems: Obtained ABET accreditation
  • College of Computer and Information Technology - Department of Computer Network Engineering and Security: Obtained ABET accreditation
  • College of Computer and Information Technology - Department of Computer Science: Obtained ABET accreditation
  • College of Computer and Information Technology - Department of Software Engineering: Obtained IET accreditation
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Radiology Technology: Obtained ASIC accreditation
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Optometry​: Obtained ASIC accreditation
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Ambulance and Emergency Department​​: Obtained ASIC accreditation
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences​​: Obtained ASIC accreditation​
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Allied Dental Sciences: Obtained ASIC accreditation
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Dental Tec​hnology: ASIC accredited
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Physiotherapy​​: Obtained ASIC accreditation, ​World Confederation for Physical Therapy
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Occupational Therapy​​: Obtained ASIC accreditation, ​World Confederation for Physical Therapy​​
  • College of Applied Medical Sciences - Department of Hearing and Speech​​: Obtained ASIC accreditation​
  • College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Chemistry: Accredited by the Canadian Society for Chemistry
  • College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: Obtained ASIIN accreditation
  • College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Mathematics: Obtained ABET accreditation
  • College of Arts and Sciences - Department of PhysicsPhysics: obtained ABET accreditation
  • College of Pharmacy: ACPE accredited
  • College of Nursing: ACEN accredited​


Quality certificates:

• The university obtained the ISO 9001-2015 Quality Certificate​.