| Major | About the Major | Fields of Work |
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| Doctor of Medicine | The major aims to provide the health sectors with general
practitioners who are able to provide a high level of health care and fully
qualified for higher specialties | General practitioner |
| Health Management and Policy | A major presented by the Faculty of Medicine; it focuses on
health care disciplines and systems to be the major power in guiding the
health care sector | Hospitals (public and private sectors), Ministry of Health, and
Health Centers |
| Medical Laboratory Sciences | The major aims at preparing the technical staff that increases
the efficiency for clinical diseases through a comprehensive theoretical and
practical study plan that includes all laboratory medical sciences branches
like: diagnostic hematology and blood bank, microorganisms, immunity and
vaccines, clinical biochemistry, diagnostic molecular biology, and clinical
microscopic analysis. In addition, the plan includes a practical courses in
which the student trains for a certain period in laboratories following
public hospitals like King Abdullah University Hospital, Royal Medical
Services, and other government hospitals | Hospitals, health centers, blood bank, teaching, medical
equipment marketing,
Private laboratories, and scientific research centers |
| Radiologic Technology | The major aims at preparing cadre who are qualified to diagnose
and treat diseases by X-Ray and colored radiology for each part of the body,
in addition to diagnosing and treating malignant tumor using radioisotope.
The study plan includes training at some hospitals | Hospitals, teaching, medical equipment marketing |
| Dental Technology | The major aims at meeting the needs of the local and regional
market for allied technical cadre to dentists. The student studies courses
concerned with temporary and permanent prosthodontic, orthodontics,
implantations, | Hospitals, private dental labs, medical equipment companies,
Royal Medical Services |
| Allied Dental Sciences | The major aims to have specialists in non-surgical gum treatment
who, at first place, care about having means for improving oral health, and
at the same time are well qualified to be dentists’ assistants | Hospitals, private dental clinics, dentistry faculties at
universities |
| Physical Therapy | The major aims to qualify the student to use a comprehensive way
to cure, diagnose, and treat motor disorders using different therapeutic
exercises and physical methods, in addition to rehabilitate patients and
disabled people. The major also includes therapeutic intervention for bones,
muscles, nerves, respiratory system, circulatory system, burns and wounds,
and all other types of motor neuropathy | Hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and health centers |
| Occupational Therapy | The major is concerned with rehabilitating and reintegrating
disabled people. The major is concerned with occupational therapy for
children, physical neurological injuries, mental illnesses, and hand and
shoulder rehabilitation | Hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and special educational
centers |
| Audiology and Speech Pathology | The major is concerned with providing students with the skills
necessary to diagnose, treat and rehabilitate people who suffer from speech
and hearing disorder using the best procedures and checkups. | Hospitals, health centers, private rehabilitation clinics |
| Chemical Engineering | The major is concerned with different industrial operation such
as plastic, petrol, medical, chemical detergents, paintings, phosphate,
potassium, and other industries through which the chemical engineer
transforming cheap raw material to valuable material. Chemical engineering is
a practical application for chemistry, physics, and math. In addition, the
major is concerned with designing devices such as nuclear reactors, refining
and absorbing towers, and hear exchangers | Chemical factories, pharmaceutical factories, food industries,
petroleum and petrochemical industries, chemical devices marketing, petrol
refineries, potassium and phosphate factories, ceramic, plastic, fertilizers,
paintings, and chemical detergents factories |
| Civil Engineering | The major aims to graduate cadre who are qualified to examine
and design projects and infrastructure such as buildings, roads, water and
sewage systems, bridges, subways, dams, and railways | Infrastructure projects for roads, airports, bridges, subways,
buildings, and sewage, an executive engineer or supervising engineer,
engineering consultations, and engineering offices |
| Electrical engineering | Telecommunication engineering: the major aims at providing the
students with the theoretical and practical skills that qualify them for the
jobs concerned with telecommunication and electronics through studying
different models for digital systems, analyzing them in addition to
controlling telecommunication networks by reading, analyzing, and stabilizing
the information. Power and Controlling engineering: the major aims at
providing the students with the necessary skills for generating energy, and
dealing with electrical machines in electricity stations, transferring
energy, stabilizing the electrical network, and the connection with other
networks. | Local and international telecommunication companies, information
networks, aeronautics, generation stations, transmission lines, energy
distribution companies, and factories. |
| Mechanical Engineering | The major is concerned with analyzing, designing, and improving
systems, and mechanical and thermal operations to achieve the best results
and optimal quality with the least costs and least negative effect on
environment. The major includes air conditioning systems, health systems,
energy, transmission, control, and manufacturing systems, structural systems,
and mechatronic systems and their applications in robots and robotic systems,
and industrial automation for production lines | Consultative offices, refrigerating and air-conditioning,
mechanical services for buildings such as plumbing, mechanical designs for
manufacturing lines and machines, renewable energy fields, manufacturing and
mending cars, and all other different factories |
| Biomedical Engineering | The major aims at keeping pace with development in the field of
the technology of health care and using modern techniques in the field of
diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation | Hospitals, medicinal industries, orthopedic prosthetics |
| Industrial engineering | The major is concerned with designing and administrating the
systems of human resources, material, information, machines, and power. The
major mainly depend on physics, math, statistics, humanities, and on
engineering principles and analysis to determine the outcomes of those
systems. | Industrial and service enterprises, planning and administrating
operations, quality management systems, storage management, resources
management, energy management, analyzing and optimizing operations, designing
plants, engineering design, production technology, and administrative
consultations |
| Pharmacy | The major aims at providing the students with different skills
of pharmacology and its practices and qualify them to work in the field of
pharmacology | Pharmacology, purchasing and providing medicine, hospitals,
medicinal factories, pharmacological marketing, and drug stores |
| Pharma D. | The student studies for at least six years. The student studies
the theoretical and practical courses in the faculty for the first five
years, then in the sixth year the student gets the clinical training in
hospitals. In this year, the student focuses on the clinical sciences and its
applications to be qualified to follow up with the patients and giving them the suitable medicine | Hospitals, scientific pharmacological centers, medicinal factories, private pharmacies,
and clinical pharmacology and scientific pharmacological promotion |
| Nursing | The major aims at preparing and qualifying nurses (males and
females) to protect people’s health and cure and treat them in addition to
improving peoples styles of living using the best teaching and training
techniques | Hospitals, health centers, and private clinics |
| Midwifery | The major aims at preparing
midwives who care about mother’s and newborn’s health and improving
peoples styles of living using the best teaching and training techniques | Hospitals, private clinics, and maternal and childhood welfare |
| Dentistry | Dentistry is a five-year-major. In the first two years, the
students study general and medical oral sciences, then in the first year they
get pre-clinical training in the university, while in the last two years,
student start the practical educational training | Dentist |
| Animal Production | The major aims at providing students with the scientific
knowledge concerned with breeding animal, feeding domestic animals, and
producing livestock, managing rangeland, and genetic improvement for domestic
animals | Agri-business companies, veterinary drugs companies |
| Plant Production | The major aims at providing students with the scientific
knowledge concerned with crop technology and physiology, seed production,
plant diseases and economical pests. In addition, the student studies special
topics on bees and honey production, agricultural mechanization, agricultural
extension and transferring agricultural technology | Agricultural research centers, Ministry of Agriculture,
agricultural cooperative societies, drug stores, water and environment health
centers, and standard and metrology |
| Nutrition and Food Technology | The major aims to qualify the students in the biomedical fields
in a way that serves hospitals and drug stores. The major basically focuses
on food sciences, human nutrition science and application, planning for
meals, and treatment with food, dairy and cereals, manufacturing and
preserving vegetables and fruit | Food factories, hospitals, hotels, air services, nutritionist,
drug stores, natural reserves |
| Soil and irrigation | The major aims at providing the students with specialized information about soil, water, irrigation,
agricultural drainage, fertilizers, land reclamation, soil taxonomy, soil
survey, and plant taxonomy | Ministry of Agriculture, enterprises concerned with water and
irrigation, pastoral and forest administration, reserves, and land
reclamation |
| Veterinary Medicine | The major aims at providing the students with the theoretical
and practical skills in diagnosing and treating domestic animals and
livestock; in addition, providing them
with the necessary skills in the field of food safety and health. The major
includes practical training in the veterinary center at the university | Veterinarian, veterinary drug stores, the FDA, the Ministry of
Agriculture, Amman Municipality |
| Aeronautical Engineering | The major aims preparing students to be able to work in the
field of aeronautics. The student takes courses like aircraft design,
controlling aircraft, sensors, designing propulsion systems,
microelectromechanical systems | Maintenance of aircraft frames and engines, aviation academies,
aircraft companies |
| English Language and Linguistics | The major aims at providing the students with the necessary
skills for acquiring language and using it in different circumstances, by
focusing on the language skills like reading, writing, listening, and
speaking. The student spends a training period in an institution that uses
English. The student takes courses in secretarial works, media, aviation, and
other practical fields that might be helpful in the work market | Teaching, translation, the fields of tourism, media, and hotels |
| Mathematics | Math is known as studying geometry, arithmetic, and
measurements. The major focuses on improving students’ abilities in solving
problems. Mathematics is the basis for other sciences and the corner stone
for technological, medical, economical, and educational improvement | Teaching, department of statistics, computerization, insurance
companies and banks |
| Chemistry | The major aims at preparing the students by giving them
theoretical and practical courses in organic and non-organic chemistry,
physical, analytical, and industrial chemistry, preparing organic compounds,
electrical chemistry, separating natural compounds, environmental studies,
water research, organometallic compounds, biochemical compounds, colloidal
chemistry, polyhedral chemistry, environmental pollution chemistry. Chemistry
is one of the basic sciences | Teaching, Chemical and petrochemical industries, pharmaceutical
industries and medicinal companies, scientific laboratories, forensics,
extractive petrol, phosphate, and cement companies |
| Physics | The major is concerned with preparing cadre who are
scientifically qualified in practical and theoretical physics. It also meets
the learners needs in general physics, classical mechanics, modern physics,
quantum physics, electromagnetics, thermal dynamics, nuclear physics,
mathematical physics, solids, optics, and other courses that provide the
students with the skills that enable them to use microelectronic devices,
computers, plasma physics, laser, medical physics, semi-conductors. Physics
is the basis for applied sciences. | Teaching, scientific laboratories, Royal scientific association,
meteorological department, microelectronic devices factories, astronomical
observatories, uranium mining projects, and energy sectors |
| Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology | The major aims at applying biological and chemical sciences to
produce new material, or improving the already existing one, and finding
improving new ways in biotechnological studies concerned with human being,
animals, agriculture, and environment and using them in diagnosing and
treating some diseases and producing plants with more desired features. | The field of agriculture in transgenes, producing plants that
are more pests and diseases, cancer medical research, and DNA analysis,
laboratory technician, and marketing for biomedical devices |
| Optometry | The major aims at providing the local and regional market with
opticians, qualifying visually impaired people, in addition to discovering
diseases that may lead to visual loss and leading them to the specialists by
using the most improved devices | Hospitals, specialized private clinics |
| Computer Engineering | The major aims at qualifying engineers to work in designing and
maintaining software and different computer applications such as net construction, programming, data base,
internet applications, industrial control devices, protection, digital
telecommunication, and expert systems. The major is also concerned with the
operation of analyzing, evaluating, measuring, designing, testing, producing,
and maintaining computers systems and devices | Constructing and designing computer networks, computer software,
systems, networks, and telecommunication, programs, systems and maintenance
engineer, internet engineering and websites improvement, determining and
maintaining problems, telecommunication companies, and marketing companies |
| Computer Science | The science that computer, data processing, theories and
applications that form the basis for data transfer automation. The major
focuses computer basics like language programming, database, compilers,
designing different programs, and operation systems. | Programmer or system analyst in companies, enterprises, banks,
universities. Teachers, laboratory supervisor, sales representative for
computer equipment and programs |
| Computer Information System | The major aims at qualifying and graduating students on IT
computerizing in accounting, financial, managerial, medical, and other
fields. The aim of the major is to improve students’ abilities in planning,
executing, developing, and managing information systems in banks, hospitals,
universities, etc. | Analyzing and programming, designing electronic trading systems,
teaching, laboratory technician, private computer companies, fields of
telecommunication and information technology |
| Network Engineering and Security | The major aims at graduating students who are qualified in the
fields of designing and developing wire and wireless computer networks,
designing network operation software, developing internet applications,
managing networks, and other fields. | Companies, banks, hospitals, and computer companies |
| Software Engineering | The program aims at developing a group of basics and rules the
lead to improving software designing in a way that meets users’ needs. The
programmer does not do the program, but improves the way the program is
designed to be able develop it easily later. The major focuses on
structuring, and maintaining huge programs such as managing networks and
factories programs | Software projects, system engineer, analyst and designer,
software maintenance engineer, laboratory supervisor, teaching, internet
websites designer |
| Nuclear engineering | The main objective of the major is to search for new energy
resources due to the great increase in petrol prices as a main energy
resource. The major focuses on the practical applications in the field of
nuclear energy, nuclear plants energy, and designing nuclear reactors | Nuclear power plants, nuclear mining, SESAME Center, hadron
collider and nuclear physics |
| Architecture | The objective of the major is to graduate architectures who are
highly qualified in architecture. The major focuses on designing and
structuring building, and planning and developing urban and rural areas
considering the occupational, aesthetic, technical, and economic sides | Consultative and engineering offices, structuring and
engineering companies, architecture (designer), construction |
| Design and visual communication | The objective of the major to provide students a
multi-curricular teaching in different linked topics that include creating
designing ideas by mixing pictures to texts, and photographs to music, or
mixing them altogether to design
interactive networks and multimodal designs that pass influential messages to
the society considering that the link between these fields enables students
to know the career that suits them most in a way that meets society needs | Network design,
videogames design, digital cartoon, digital films, sound effects, multimedia
production and visual reality systems, 3D visuals processors, graphic design,
electronic subjects, writing and producing multimedia |
| Anesthesia Technology | Anesthesia Technology is a wide field with various increasing
job opportunities. Anesthesia Technology technicians prepare and follow up
emergency and non-emergency patients, in addition to some medical procedures
like tracheal intubation.
Anesthesia Technology technicians work with healthcare specialists to
widely diagnose and treat patients
Anesthesia Technology is widely needed in the healthcare markets | Anesthesia technician, health care services in the private and
public sectors
Teaching in healthcare schools and colleges when finishing graduate studies |
| Respiratory Therapy | Respiratory therapy is a wide field with various increasing job
opportunities. Respiratory therapists follow up patients with pulmonary heart
disease and other serious diseases. In addition, they work together with
healthcare specialists on giving patients the best diagnosis and
treatment
Respiratory therapy focuses mainly on diagnosing pulmonary heart patients.
As a major, it is widely needed in the healthcare market | Respiratory therapist can work in the following fields:
1-Centers and labs specialized in pulmonary function tests and other tests
for diseases that might affect the respiratory system such as heart tests and
nervous system tests.
2-Respiratory therapist in hospitals
3-Foster care: in clinics that provide diagnostic and respiratory care like
thoracic clinics
4-Extracting and analyzing arterial blood in specialized labs
5-Emergency departments at hospital |
| Cybersecurity | The need for cybersecurity specialists led the universities all
over the world to open cybersecurity undergraduate, graduate, and
postgraduate programs to meet the market needs for this major.
More than 2.93 million cybersecurity specialists are needed all over the
world according to ISC2. The Americal Bureau of Labor statistics adds that
there will be a 28% increase in this need by 2026.
The program was designed to meet the great needs for specialists in the
field. | B.Sc Cybersecurity graduates will be qualified to work in a wide
variety jobs like:
1. Information security manager
2. Information security Analyst
3. Ethical penetration and hacking tests
4. Cryptographer
5. Information security officer
6. Information privacy officer
7. Information security consultant |
| Paramedics | The objective of the major is to provide the graduates with the
necessary knowledge and skills for working in the field of paramedics so they
are trained on how to save patients and accidents injuries from death and
suffering for as much as possible | Hospitals and Civil Security |
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