About JUST
Facts and Highlights


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 an 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 resources

  • 1,006 faculty members, of whom 28.6% 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 graduate: 77,462, including 12,534 non-Jordanian nationals.
  • 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 Rating

  • The university won first place according to the Jordanian classification of universities
  • THE Rank, In World University Rankings 2019: 351-400
  • THE Rank, in Asia University Rankings 2019: 51
  • THE Rank, in Young Universities Ranking 2019: 91
  • THE Rank, in Emerging Economies 2019: 58. 
  • THE Rank, In Arab World University Rankings: 2019: 4
  • THE Rank, in Jordanian Universities Rankings: 2019: 1
  • Shanghai Ranking For Clinical Medicine: 151-200
  • Shanghai Ranking For Nursing: 151-200
  • Shanghai Ranking For Veterinary Science: 201-300
  • QS Ranking: 651-700 in the world 
  • QS Ranking: 13 in the Arab world 
  • US News& World Report Ranking for Best Global Universities:799
  • US News& World Report Ranking for Best Global Universities in Asia:170

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.


 
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P.O.Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan
Tel. : + 962 (0) 2 7201000
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Email: public@just.edu.jo

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