An Orientation Day for students in PhD program in Business organized by the Faculty of Graduate Studies where the University announced the start of teaching PhD program in Business with a joint collaboration of Indiana University in Pennsylvania, USA.
The Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Dr. Abdulrahman Abu Libdeh, said: "The University announced a year and a half ago that the university has received an accreditation for a worldwide unique program. Today, the University is celebrating the first meeting of this doctoral program and announced the start of teaching it. As he pointed out the high interest of the business sector in enhancing and supporting this program, where he thanked the Bank of Palestine for their Scholarship offer for the doctoral students.
Bank of Palestine and Arab American University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support PhD program in Business as part of its contribution to support higher education. The memorandum of understanding was signed at the headquarters of the Bank of Palestine's in Ramallah, in the presence of Mr. Rushdi Al-Ghalayini General Manger of BOP and Mr. Faleh Abu Arrah, Vice President of Financial and Administrative Affairs from AAUP.
In the agreement terms, the Bank will provide special financial support to Ph.D. Business students at Arab American University. Where this program has excellent educational features specially in applying quantitative and qualitative research methods in the field of business as an in-depth knowledge and understanding of research and applications in main business areas, this Ph.D. program will enable the graduate to apply the outcomes with either an academic or industry focus.
The university hosted two international experts in the evaluation of international academic and quality programs, Prof. Georgios Davalos and Prof. Miltus Petters, from a British university, in a scientific meeting organized by Erasmus Palestine Office in the presence of six Palestinian universities to evaluate the academic program in the fields of engineering, computer science and information technology at both AAUP and Al-Quds University as a model.
The Head of Development Committee at Arab American University, Prof. Mohammed Asia, said that the university seeks through this scientific workshop to reach the highest standards of quality and the best academic programs, as noted by the international experts, who affirmed that Arab American University has international academic, scientific and quality programs, and the outcomes of Arab American University are in line with the requirements of local, Arab and international markets.