Al-Balqa` Applied University

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Al-Balqa' Applied University
جامعة البلقاء التطبيقية
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Type Public
Established 1997
President Nabeel Shawaqfeh
Students 28488 [1]
Location
Salt (main campus)
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Jordan
Campus Urban
5,000 acres (20 km2)
Colors Olive Green and Khaki
        
Affiliations IAU, FUIW, UNIMED, AArU
Website Al-Balqa' Applied University website

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Al-Balqa' Applied University (BAU) [2] (Arabic جامعة البلقاء التطبيقية) is a government-supported university located in Salt, Jordan, was founded in 1997, a distinctive state university in the field of Bachelor and associate degree Applied Education, at the capacity of more than 21,000 student distributed into 10,000 at the bachelor's degree program and 11,000 at the associate degree program.

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Inside BEA in the main campus in Salt, Jordan

Balqa' Applied University was formed by merging several colleges distributed over almost all of the Jordanian provinces. The merger was the result of royal decree, under the auspices of his majesty the late King Hussein to provide qualified professionals who focus on applied technical studies. A recent stadium was constructed to hold official graduation and ceremonies and was finished in 2011. Especially to remind you one qualified teachers teacher Faiz Mohammad Salim Al-Hussein al-Issa in University College alhousn - Department of Mechanical Engineering

Faculties

The university system has 11 Branches in every Jordanian governorate (Except for Mafraq).

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Main entrance of BAU at night.

Colleges in main campus in the city of Salt

  • Faculty of Engineering.
  • Prince Abdullah Bin Ghazi faculty for Information Technology.
  • Faculty of Applied Science
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Applied Science Faculty.
  • Salt College for Humanitarian And Literary Sciences.
  • Faculty of Planning and Management.
Faculty of Planning and Management.
  • Faculty of Technological Agriculture.
  • Faculty of Islamic Architecture and Arts.

Other faculties around the city of Salt

  • Princess Rahma University College: In the town of Allan, north west of Salt.

Faculties in Northern Jordan

  • Al- Husn University College (in Irbid)
  • Ajloun University College (in Ajloun) : for Educational sciences
  • Irbid University College (in Irbid)

Faculties in Central Jordan

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FET Campus in Amman.

Faculties in Southern Jordan

  • Aqaba University College (in Aqaba)
  • Karak College (in Kerak)
  • Ma’an College (in Ma'an)
  • Shobak College (in Shoubak)

Former Faculties

  • Tafilah Applied University College: It became Tafila Technical University in Tafilah in 2005.
  • Usul Al-Deen University College: It became W.I.S.E. (World Islamic Science and Education) University in Tabarbour, northern Amman).

Future expansion plans

With the new administration of the university represented by Dr. Nabil Shawaqfeh, future expansion plans in the university has intensified. On the 24th of February 2013 a tender was issued to construct an educational hospital with a capacity of 200 beds along a complex of medical faculties to teach medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and other medical related sciences.[3] Also, while discussing the budget of 2013/2014, the dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Maher Qaqish stated that the faculty has applied to the Higher Education Accreditation Council (HEAC)to open a department of architecture in the main campus located in Salt.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.heac.org.jo/heac/Default.aspx?lng=1&ID=116
  2. ↑ http://www.bau.edu.jo
  3. ↑ http://www.bau.edu.jo/ar/News/NewsDetails.aspx?news_id=333

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