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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

  • ​​Geographical location: Irbid governorate, 70 km north of the capital Amman.
  • The total area of the university is 11,000 dunums (1 dunum = 1000 m2). The campus maximum width is 7 km and its maximum length is 19 km.
  • The university's total building area 303,950 square meters.
  • The green area covers 5,000 dunums, of which
    • 550 dunums are planted with 532,200 forest trees,
    • 2,666 dunums planted with 47,000 fruit trees,
    • 550 dunums of gardens and
    • 1,232 dunums planted with field crops.
  • ​The University has an artificial lake with a surface area of 40,000 square meters, with a capacity of 137,000 cubic meters. 
  • The university has a winter-filled dirt dam from the surrounding with a capacity of 170,000 cubic meters.
  • There is a 5 MW solar PV power plant on campus, and there is a plan to build additional 20 MW plant.
  • The university hospital has a floor area of 110,300-square-meter, with 588 beds, in addition to a 2,000-square-meter radiology building.

 

Human resource

  • ​1,006 faculty members​; 28.6% .of them are female.
  • 1282 administrative and technical staff
  • 781 workers and service workers
  • Ratio of faculty-to-admin staff is 1:1.27
  • By graduation country, faculty members are divided as follows: 50% of the faculty are graduates of the United States of America, 20% of graduates from Europe and the UK, 7% from Canada, 4% from Australia and New Zealand and 17.5% from Jordan.

 

Faculties, programs and students

  • The University comprises of 12 faculties; one institute, 61 academic departments, 45 bachelor's programs, 98 master's programs and two Ph.D. programs.
  • Total number of graduates: 77,462; 12,534 are non-Jordanians.
  • Current number of students:

    • 25,094 undergraduate students.
    • 2,020 master's degree students.
    • 3,664 students of non-Jordanian nationality (51 different nationalities) representing 14% of the total number of students.

 

University Library 

• The total floor area of the central library is 12,500 square meters.

• The library accommodates 2,500 visitors at the same time.

• Self-lending and return service is available through RFID technology and a 24-hour automated return window. This technology also provides arrangement, weeding and automated inventory of books through DLA devices.

• The library contains 195,000 books, 50,000 volumes, 433,000 e-books, 58 databases with 103,000 e-journals. 

 University Rankings

  • The university won first place according to the Jordanian classification of universities
  • THE Rank, In World University Rankings 2022: 401-500
  • THE Rank, in Asia University Rankings 2022: 68
  • THE Rank, in Young Universities Ranking 2022: 90
  • THE Rank, in Emerging Economies 2022: 84 
  • THE Rank, In Arab World University Rankings 2022: 24
  • QS Ranking 2022: 801-1000 in the world 
  • US News & World Report Ranking for Best Global Universities 2022: 506
  • US News & World Report Ranking for Best Global Universities in Asia 2022: 96 

     

 

University budget:

The university's budget for 2019 is around JD 102 million (US$150 million).

 

Scientific research:

• The University allocates 5% of its budget to scientific research in addition to supporting external research (external, external and global), where the total scientific research budget for 2020 is estimated at (8) million dinars.

• Number of published papers since the founding of the university is 11154 to Scopus.

• The University ranks first in terms of the scale of publications quoted by the SciVal World Ranking, with more than 47,000 Citations in the last five years.

 

Global credits

• Faculty of Engineering: ABET accredited 

• Faculty of Medicine: Avicenna, JCI, WFME, RCP

• Faculty of Dentistry: RCSI Accredited

• Faculty of Pharmacy: ACPE accreditation

• Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences: ASIC Accredited

• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: EAEVE certified

• Faculty of Nursing: ACEN, WHO, CIDA

• Department of Computer Engineering: ABET accredited.

• Software Engineering Department: Accredited by the Institute of Engg. and Tech. (IET).

• Department of Life Sciences and Genetic Engineering: ASIIN Accredited

 

Quality certificates:

• ISO 9001-2015 Quality Certificate.