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.