UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
Graduate Studies And Student Affairs
Ikhlas Sweis and Zainab Al Dabouqi.
MODERNIZATION
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
SERVICES IN JORDAN
Ikhlas Sweis.
UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN
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The University of Jordan is the mother of all
universities in Jordan established in 1962.
Enables its students to choose from a wide range
of programs- more than 3500 different courses
are offered by 18 faculties.
The University of Jordan has always encouraged
its students through providing them with
knowledge, qualifications, and skills under the
supervision of its elite faculty members to supply
the local and regional communities with highlyqualified members who would hold notable
positions in the society.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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The first postgraduate program was established
in 1968 upon the issuance of the Royal Decree
regarding establishing a scientific edifice whose
mission was to prepare high-level academic
qualifications. Hence, the main task set for the
Faculty of Graduate Studies was to organize the
affairs of postgraduate studies on the University
level, including all humanities, scientific, and
medical specializations.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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Since its establishment, the Faculty of Graduate
Studies has always managed to supply the local,
regional and international markets with modern
scientific programs on the levels of master’s,
doctoral, and high specialization in the fields of
medicine and dentistry.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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The Faculty has always worked on setting the
quality of scientific research, theses, and
dissertations in accordance with universal
standards. The Faculty offers more than (122)
master’s programs, (37) doctoral programs, (16)
high specialization in medicine certificate
programs, and one high specialization in
dentistry certificate program.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Moreover, the University of Jordan has an
agreement with Cologne University in Germany
offering a Master’s program in Integrated Water
Resources Management.
 In addition, the DAAD (German Academic
Exchange Service) has been giving scholarships
for Jordanian to complete their higher education
at the University of Jordan for the past few
years. Last year the DAAD added Syrian and
Palestinian students to offer them a scholarship
for the first time.
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FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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These two programs have opened doors and have
given international and local students an
opportunity to pursue their goals. I hope the
other members at Erasmus Plus consider offering
additional scholarships and programs that will
promote learning and encourages students the
same way the DAAD & University of Cologne did.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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The Faculty has succeeded to attract
distinguished students and supply the local,
regional and universal markets with high quality
experiences. The total number of the Faculty
graduates has approximately reached (21841)
male and female master's students, and (2876)
PhD students, these numbers include local,
regional and international students from (46)
countries around the world, most of whom were
hired at well-known institutions which believed
in the high qualifications and potentials they
have.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
In our faculty, we have an International
registrar’s office which is dedicated to
international students, wishing to pursue their
master’s and/or PhD’s.
 The registrar’s office is responsible for receiving
applications & submitting them to the various
faculties. The students are then notified by the
registrar’s office as to which faculties they got
accepted into depending on their credentials, or
whether haven’t been accepted.
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FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Up until last year, this process was all done
manually; the faculty of Graduate Studies
recently developed an in-house electronic solution
to ease, speed up and automate the registration
and acceptance program.
 However, the system we developed was not
perfect some of the obstacles we are facing are
the fact that the system does not accept any
major credit cards to make payment. The only
way is to wire transfer or pay cash up-front.
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FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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Other obstacles that international students face
is the need to get their certificates
authentications through their embassy of their
country of origin and the Jordanian government
institutions, as the students need be have all
original papers when they register.
In my opinion these are not only obstacles but
also cause an inconvenience for potential
students, not to mention the long duration of
time it takes to collect required paperwork.
FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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We hope that some other educational institutions
provide financial and/or educational scholarships
to improve the quality of our services to our
graduate students.
STUDENT AFFAIRS
Career Services and other support services for
international students.
Zainab Al Dabouqi.
CAREER SERVICES (ROLE)
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1. Providing a database of the market needs of
human resources.
2. Finding an alignment between the skills which
students trained on with the actual needs of the
job market locally, regionally, and globally as an
essential prerequisite for achieving an alignment
between the outputs of the educational system
and the inputs of the job market in general.
CAREER SERVICES (ROLE)
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3. Establishing work values, behaviors, and
career affiliation.
4. Helping students in ensuring job vacancies
matching their qualifications and ambitions.
5. Opening up channels of communication
between the student community in universities
with private sectors activities, and civil society
organizations.
FIRST: EMPLOYMENT (ACTIVITIES)
1. Helping graduate
students how to
search, find and to
choose the suitable
between different
career options .
 2. Offering temporary
job opportunities for
students who are still
studying.
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3. build a network
with the private
sectors locally and
regionally to recruit
qualified graduates.
 4. Announce available
job opportunities in
various fields to the
students and the
graduates.
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EMPLOYMENT (ACTIVITIES)
5. Receiving job
applications from
graduates.
 6. Inviting employers
to participate in job
recruitment programs
for graduates and
offer the means to do
so.
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7. Organizing the
participation of the
university Career
Day.
 8. Providing part time
job opportunities in
faculties, units,
departments, and
centers inside campus.
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SECOND: VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND
GUIDANCE (ACTIVITIES)
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1. Job interview skill
training.
2. Training students on
CV writing skills.
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3. Invest available
human resources within
the university to held
training courses that
develop students skills
in their fields, to be able
to build up the
students’s professional
life focusing on those
skills which they cannot
acquire during their
university life.
SECOND: VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND
GUIDANCE (ACTIVITIES)
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4. Providing
vocational guidance
and counseling for
students from all
levels.
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5. Announcing
available training
courses for students
nationally and
internationally.
OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES
Students Affairs
1. INTERIOR DORMITORY
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The university is seeking to provide an
appropriate atmosphere for all students,
regarding that (Jerash and Amoun dormitories)
were established for foreign students.
Providing comfortable living for the university´s
students, along with strengthening good relations
between students, to be a meeting ground of
cultural civilizations .
2. SPORT ACTIVITIES
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Encouraging students to practice different
curricular and extracurricular sport activities
throughout fully considered plans to develop
participation and collaboration spirit and to
polish students' personalities alongside with
their academic achievement
3. FOREIGN STUDENTS AFFAIRS OFFICE
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The foreign students are received by this office
representatives, to help in following up
administrative procedures related to their
academic registration while preparing to join the
educational process.
official transactions and procedures related to
students' accommodation at the Hashemite
kingdom of Jordan.
FOREIGN STUDENTS AFFAIRS OFFICE
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The office arranges programs, activities and trips
to the foreign students with their Jordanian
colleagues to a variety of cultural and tourist
areas in the Kingdom.
Finding a multi-cultural learning environment
inside the campus by giving foreign students the
chance to attend various cultural activities
organized to meet, share and experience each
others.