Zarqa University
جامعة الزرقاء | |
Type | Private |
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Established | 1994 |
Students | 9,000 |
Location | Zarqa (main campus) , 32°03′32″N 36°09′21″E / 32.059026°N 36.155899°E |
Colors | Blue and Light Grey |
Affiliations | IAU, FUIW, AArU |
Website | http://zu.edu.jo/EN |
Zarqa University (Arabic: جامعة الزرقاء) is a university in the city of Zarqa, in Jordan's Zarqa Governorate. It was established in 1994, about 6 km to the east of the city center. At the university's first academic semester, there were only 150 students. In the scholastic year 2013/2014 the number of students was over 9,000 in 43 majors.[1]
The university campus houses the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Colleges of Computing and Information Society of the Association of Arab Universities.[2] It is also the permanent residence of the general secretariat of the International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT).[3]
Colleges
[edit]- Faculty of Science and Information Technology [1]
- Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences [2]
- Faculty of Economy and Management [3]
- Faculty of Arts [4]
- Faculty of Educational Sciences [5]
- Faculty of Shari'a (Islamic Studies) [6]
- Faculty of Nursing [7]
- Faculty of Law [8]
- College of Pharmacy [9]
- Faculty of Engineering [10]
- Faculty of Arts and Design [11]
- Faculty of Graduate Studies [12]
- Faculty of Dentistry [13]
- Faculty of Journalism and mass communication Graduate [http://zu.edu.jo/en/Collage/Press_and_Media/DeanOffice.aspx?
id=6&Faculity=14]