In an attempt to cut the number of Jordanian medical and engineering students abroad, Jordan’s Higher Education Council issued decisions this month to raise the minimum admission grades for these and other disciplines, starting in the 2023-2024 academic year.
The council also published a list of new academic programmes it had approved at public and private universities in Jordan in specialties that it said “meet the needs of the local, regional and international labour market.”
The programmes are in specialties like data science, finance and digital marketing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and sustainable energy.
Thirty-three of them are bachelor’s degree programmes, three are higher diploma programmes, 23 are master’s degree programmes, and two are doctoral-level programmes.
Regulations for Studying Abroad
The new conditions for studying at universities outside Jordan raise admission grades to 85 percent for medicine and dentistry faculties, and to 80 percent for engineering, architecture, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.
In addition, the new decisions require undergraduate students to reside abroad and attend regularly throughout the study period.