A'Sharqiyah University

A'Sharqiyah University (ASU) is a private university in Ibra, in the Al Sharqiyah North Governorate of Oman, about 150 kilometres from the capital Muscat on the road towards Sur.阿曼沙尔基亚大学（A'Sharqiyah University，简称 ASU）是阿曼北沙尔基亚省伊卜拉的一所私立大学，距首都马斯喀特约 150 公里，位于通往苏尔的公路沿线。

It was licensed in 2009 by Ministerial Decision 78/2009 of the Ministry of Higher Education and admitted its first students in the autumn of 2010.该校于 2009 年经高等教育第 78/2009 号部长决定获批设立，并于 2010 年秋季招收首批学生。

The university teaches through colleges of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Arts and Law, enrols about 4,066 students with 171 academic staff, and sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校设有商学院、工程学院、健康科学学院、文学院与法学院，在校生约 4,066 人、专任教师 171 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间。

History

• Sultan Qaboos bin Said acceded on 23 July 1970, when Oman had only three schools and no university, and made education the first charge on oil revenue that had begun to flow only three years earlier.苏丹卡布斯·本·赛义德于 1970 年 7 月 23 日登基，当时阿曼全国只有三所学校、没有大学，他把教育列为此前三年才开始出口的石油收入的首要用途。
• Sultan Qaboos University opened at Al Khoud in 1986 as the country's first national university, admitted both men and women from the outset, and remained the flagship of a sector that later opened to private providers.苏丹卡布斯大学于 1986 年在阿尔胡德落成，是阿曼第一所国立大学，自创办起即同时招收男女学生，此后长期是这一向民间资本开放的高教部门的旗舰。
• The Ministry of Higher Education was created in 1994 to plan, license and supervise a sector that until then had been run through the Ministry of Education.高等教育部的设立可追溯至 1994 年，其职责是规划、审批与监管此前由教育部代管的高等教育部门。
• Private colleges multiplied from the late 1990s to absorb holders of the General Education Diploma who could not be placed in Sultan Qaboos University.自 1990 年代末起，私立学院迅速增多，以吸纳无法进入苏丹卡布斯大学的普通教育文凭持有者。
• The Basic Statute of the State, issued by Royal Decree 101/96 in 1996, declared education a right of every Omani and obliged the state to provide it, the constitutional basis on which later private provision rested.1996 年以第 101/96 号御令颁布的《国家基本法》宣布教育是每个阿曼人的权利，国家有义务提供教育，这一条款成为此后私立教育发展的宪制基础。
• Oman acceded to the World Trade Organization in November 2000, a step that exposed its education market to foreign providers and made partnerships with American universities such as Oklahoma State politically feasible.阿曼于 2000 年 11 月加入世界贸易组织，这一步使本国教育市场向境外提供者开放，也让与俄克拉何马州立大学等美国院校的合作在政策上可行。
• The University of Nizwa was founded in 2004 as the first private university in Oman, establishing the model of a privately owned, ministry-licensed institution that ASU later followed.尼兹瓦大学于 2004 年创办，是阿曼第一所私立大学，确立了由私人拥有、经教育部审批的办学模式，该校后来也沿用这一模式。
• A'Sharqiyah University was licensed in 2009 by Ministerial Decision 78/2009, becoming the first university seated in the Al Sharqiyah region.阿曼沙尔基亚大学于 2009 年依第 78/2009 号部长决定获得办学许可，成为沙尔基亚地区第一所大学。
• Ibra, the seat chosen for the campus, is the second largest city of the Sharqiyah region and lies on the Muscat-Sur highway about 150 kilometres from the capital.校址所在的伊卜拉是沙尔基亚地区第二大城市，位于马斯喀特至苏尔的高速公路旁，距首都约 150 公里。
• The first cohort entered in the autumn of 2010, when Ibra's higher education provision consisted of the College of Technology and the Nursing Institute.首批学生于 2010 年秋季入学，当时伊卜拉的高等教育机构只有技术学院与护理学院两家。
• A foundation year in English, mathematics and computing was built into the first curriculum, because most entrants came from Arabic-medium secondary schools.首届课程设置了英语、数学与计算机的预科年，因为大多数新生来自阿拉伯语授课的中学。
• From its earliest years the university worked with Oklahoma State University and Texas Technological University on the design and delivery of academic programmes to international standards.建校初期，该校即与美国俄克拉何马州立大学、得克萨斯理工大学合作，参照国际标准设计并实施学术课程。
• The College of Engineering grew around departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering, whose staff publish in international environmental and bioprocess journals.工程学院以土木与环境工程系、化学与生物工艺工程系为核心发展起来，其教师在国际环境与生物工艺类期刊上发表论文。
• The environmental engineering laboratory works on landfill leachate, industrial wastewater and coagulation processes, themes that answer Oman's acute water scarcity and its reliance on treated water.环境工程实验室研究垃圾渗滤液、工业废水与混凝工艺，这些课题回应了阿曼严重的水资源短缺与对再生水的依赖。
• A College of Applied and Health Sciences appears in the affiliations of the university's researchers by 2019, alongside the College of Engineering and the College of Business.至 2019 年，该校研究人员的署名中已出现应用与健康科学学院，与工程学院、商学院并列。
• When the COVID-19 pandemic closed Omani campuses in 2020, the university moved lectures and examinations online and kept its foundation and degree cohorts on the same academic calendar.2020 年新冠疫情导致阿曼各校关闭时，该校把授课与考试转为线上，并使预科与学位各年级维持同一教学日历。
• Sultan Haitham bin Tariq succeeded Sultan Qaboos on 11 January 2020 and retained higher education as a priority of the state's diversification programme.苏丹海赛姆·本·塔里克于 2020 年 1 月 11 日继任苏丹卡布斯，并延续把高等教育列为国家多元化计划重点的政策。
• In 2020 the government merged most of the country's technical and applied colleges into the University of Technology and Applied Sciences, reshaping the sector in which ASU competes for students.2020 年，阿曼政府把全国多数技术与应用学院并入应用技术大学，重塑了该校争夺生源的整个高等教育格局。
• Oman Vision 2040, the national development plan presented in 2021, set targets for research capacity and for private participation in higher education that frame the university's current strategy.2021 年推出的国家发展蓝图「阿曼愿景 2040」为科研能力与高教领域的私人参与设定了目标，也构成该校当前战略的框架。
• The university marked its first fifteen years with five colleges, a language centre and a student body of roughly four thousand, having started from a single licensed cohort in 2010 and reached its fifteenth anniversary in 2024.该校从 2010 年的一届获准招生起步，到 2024 年第十五个年头时已拥有五个学院、一个语言中心与约四千名学生。
• By 2019 the university's output included veterinary and public-health papers written with Malaysian institutions, evidence that its research base had shifted towards applied and health sciences.至 2019 年，该校的成果中已出现与马来西亚院校合著的兽医与公共卫生论文，显示其科研重心转向应用与健康科学。
• Its 2024 entry in the QS Arab Region University Rankings at 171-200, improved to 161-170 in the 2025 edition, marked the university's arrival in international league tables.该校在 2024 年 QS 阿拉伯地区大学排名中首次进入 171-200 区间，2025 年版又提升至 161-170，标志着其进入国际排行榜视野。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into five colleges, Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Arts and Law, each headed by a dean and supported by a Language Centre that handles English provision for all entrants.教学分为商学院、工程学院、健康科学学院、文学院与法学院五个学院，各设院长，并由语言中心统一负责全体新生的英语教学。
• The College of Business offers undergraduate programmes in business administration and its sub-fields, taught in English on a credit-hour system modelled on American practice.商学院开设工商管理及其分支方向的本科专业，采用英语授课与美式学分制。
• The College of Engineering trains civil, environmental, chemical and biotechnological engineers, and its laboratories serve both teaching and contract research for Omani industry.工程学院培养土木、环境、化学与生物工艺方向的工程师，其实验室同时承担教学与面向阿曼产业的合同研究。
• The College of Health Sciences prepares nurses and allied health practitioners for the hospitals of Al Sharqiyah, a region underserved by specialist clinical staff.健康科学学院为沙尔基亚地区各医院培养护士与相关卫生技术人员，该地区专科临床人手长期不足。
• The College of Arts teaches languages, education and social science subjects that feed the region's schools and public administration.文学院教授语言、教育与社会科学的科目，为当地学校与公共行政机构输送人才。
• The College of Law offers the Bachelor of Laws for students aiming at the Omani bar, the judiciary or public prosecution service.法学院开设法学学士课程，面向有志进入阿曼律师界、司法系统或检察机关的学生。
• The Language Centre runs foundation English, academic writing and test preparation, because secondary graduates often arrive below the level required for degree courses.语言中心开设基础英语、学术写作与考试辅导课程，因为中学毕业生入校时的英语水平常低于学位课程要求。
• Admission is open to holders of the Omani General Education Diploma and to equivalent foreign certificates, with placement tests in English and mathematics.招生面向阿曼普通教育文凭持有者及同等境外学历者，并设有英语与数学分级测试。
• The university runs a four-year bachelor's pattern with a common foundation stage, after which students specialise within their college.该校本科采用四年制，前期为共同的预科阶段，之后学生在所属学院内选择专业方向。
• The four-year engineering curriculum ends with a graduation project in which students tackle water, energy or materials problems proposed by companies and ministries in Al Sharqiyah.四年制工程课程以毕业设计收尾，学生须处理沙尔基亚当地企业与部委提出的水、能源或材料问题。
• Academic quality is overseen by the national accreditation body, the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education, which licenses programmes and inspects institutions.学术质量由国家认证机构——阿曼学术认证与教育质量保障局监管，该局负责审批专业并对院校进行检查。
• Programme design drew on the curricula of Oklahoma State University and Texas Technological University, two American institutions with long records in engineering and applied science.课程设计参照俄克拉何马州立大学与得克萨斯理工大学的培养方案，这两所美国院校在工程与应用科学领域积累深厚。
• The university's 171 academic staff serve about 4,066 students, a ratio of roughly twenty-four students per faculty member that reflects its teaching-first mission.该校 171 名专任教师服务约 4,066 名学生，师生比约为 1 比 24，体现出以教学为先的办学定位。
• Only 17 of its students are international, a figure that reflects the university's role as a regional provider for Omani school leavers rather than an exporter of degrees.该校国际学生仅 17 人，这一数字说明它的角色是面向阿曼本地毕业生的区域性教育提供者，而非学位输出机构。
• Research activity is concentrated in environmental engineering, water treatment, biotechnology and applied health, often through co-authorship with universities in Malaysia and Europe.科研活动集中于环境工程、水处理、生物技术与应用健康等领域，常通过与马来西亚及欧洲高校的合作署名完成。
• The university library holds Arabic and English collections in business, engineering, law, health sciences and language teaching, was rebuilt after the 2010 opening to serve the first degree cohorts, and subscribes to international databases for staff and students.大学图书馆藏有商科、工程、法律、健康科学与语言教学方面的阿拉伯语与英语文献，2010 年开班后重建馆藏以服务首批本科学生，并向师生开放国际数据库。
• Teaching staff are recruited internationally, and the 2025 QS profile counts 171 academic staff for the five colleges, with Indian, Arab and European academics prominent in the business and engineering faculties.师资面向国际招聘，2025 年 QS 资料显示五个学院共有 171 名专任教师，其中商科与工程学科的印度、阿拉伯与欧洲学者占有显著比例。

Campus

• The campus stands in Ibra, a wilayat capital of Al Sharqiyah North Governorate, in the foothills of the Al Hajar mountains on the road from Muscat to Sur.校园位于北沙尔基亚省伊卜拉州，地处哈杰尔山脉山麓、马斯喀特至苏尔公路沿线。
• Al Sharqiyah North stretches from the Hajar mountains to the Gulf of Oman, took its present form in 2011 when Al Sharqiyah was divided into northern and southern governorates, and rests economically on date farming, fishing, copper mining and tourism rather than on the oil that funds the national budget.北沙尔基亚省从哈杰尔山脉延伸至阿曼湾，2011 年沙尔基亚分为南北两省时形成现今建制，其经济以椰枣种植、渔业、铜矿与旅游为主，而非支撑国家预算的石油。
• Ibra is the second largest city of the Sharqiyah region, with a population estimated at about 35,000 in 2008, and serves a wide rural hinterland of date-palm villages.伊卜拉是沙尔基亚地区第二大城市，2008 年人口约 35,000 人，服务周边广袤的椰枣种植村落。
• Higher education in the town is shared with the Ibra College of Technology and the Ibra Nursing Institute, both of which became part of the University of Technology and Applied Sciences.该镇的高等教育机构还包括伊卜拉技术学院与伊卜拉护理学院，两者后来均并入应用技术大学。
• The Ibra souq, one of the oldest markets in Oman, holds a weekly women's market on Wednesdays that draws traders from across the Sharqiyah.伊卜拉集市是阿曼最古老的集市之一，每周三设妇女市场，吸引沙尔基亚各地的商贩前来。
• The campus is reachable by the graded highway that links Muscat with Sur, a route that also carries students commuting from the coastal towns of the governorate.校园经连接马斯喀特与苏尔的干线公路抵达，这条公路也是省内沿海城镇学生通勤的必经之路。
• Summers in Ibra are intensely hot and dry, with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, which shapes the timetable and the indoor life of the campus.伊卜拉夏季酷热干燥，气温常超过 40 摄氏度，这一气候深刻影响了校园的作息安排与室内生活。
• The surrounding region depends on aflaj, the ancient gravity-fed irrigation channels that water the date plantations and remain a UNESCO-recognised feature of Omani life.周边地区依赖「法拉吉」灌溉系统，这种古老的重力引水渠滋养椰枣园，也是阿曼被列入联合国教科文组织名录的文化特征。
• A campus in Ibra places the university about two hours by car from Muscat along a dual carriageway that climbs through the Hajar foothills, close enough for ministry business and far enough to serve a region without another university.把校区设在伊卜拉，使该校沿穿越哈杰尔山麓的双向公路距马斯喀特约两小时车程，既便于与部委往来，又能服务这一别无大学的地区。

Reputation

• A'Sharqiyah University is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, one of the Omani universities listed in the 2027 QS table.阿曼沙尔基亚大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间，是 2027 年 QS 榜单中上榜的阿曼高校之一。
• In the QS Arab Region University Rankings 2025 the university rose to the 161-170 band, after debuting at 171-200 in the 2024 edition.在 2025 年 QS 阿拉伯地区大学排名中，该校升至 161-170 区间，此前在 2024 年版中首次亮相于 171-200。
• The 2024 and 2025 editions of the QS Arab Region ranking moved the university from the 171-200 band to 161-170, a one-band advance within a single year of the table.2024 与 2025 两版 QS 阿拉伯地区排名把该校从 171-200 区间提升到 161-170，一年之内前进了一个档位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 lists the university as a reporter, meaning it submitted data but did not receive a rank.该校进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名榜单但未获名次，即以数据提交者身份参与。
• It did not enter the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities list, nor the main table of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• OpenAlex attributes 1,841 works and 31,509 citations to the university in its 2025 snapshot, a research profile that QS classifies as medium in intensity for an institution of its age.OpenAlex 在 2025 年的数据快照中收录该校 1,841 篇成果与 31,509 次引用，QS 把这一科研体量归类为与其校龄相符的中等强度。
• QS describes the university's research intensity as medium, a classification based on output per faculty member rather than on the reputation surveys that dominate the global table.QS 把该校的科研强度列为中等，这一分类依据的是人均产出，而非主导全球榜单的声誉调查。
• The citation-to-work ratio of about seventeen per paper reflects heavy co-authorship with larger institutions rather than an independent doctoral research base.该校每篇论文约被引用 17 次，这一比例更多反映其与大型机构合作署名，而非独立的博士科研体系。
• Nationally, the university ranks behind Sultan Qaboos University and the University of Technology and Applied Sciences in size and research output, but leads in Al Sharqiyah, a governorate whose population was counted at 4.83 million nationwide in the 2020 census.在阿曼国内，该校的规模与科研产出落后于苏丹卡布斯大学与应用技术大学，但在沙尔基亚地区居于首位；2020 年人口普查显示全国居民为 483 万。
• The QS Arab Region result places it among the middle tier of Omani universities, alongside Dhofar University and Sohar University rather than the Muscat flagship.QS 阿拉伯地区排名把该校置于阿曼高校的中游，与佐法尔大学、苏哈尔大学同档，而非首都的旗舰学府。
• Its engineering and business programmes carry the strongest employer recognition, because graduates fill technical and administrative posts in the governorate's oil, water and health services as well as in the ministries that supervise them.其工程与商科专业获得的雇主认可度最高，毕业生多在本省石油、水务与卫生系统以及主管这些行业的部委担任技术与行政职务。

Student life

• The student body is overwhelmingly Omani, drawn from Ibra and the wilayats of Al Sharqiyah North and South, lives at home or in rented housing rather than in residential colleges, and reflects a pattern of local recruitment that keeps the campus tied to its governorate.学生以阿曼本国人为主，来自伊卜拉及南北沙尔基亚各省，多住家中或租住房，而非学院式宿舍，这种本地招生模式使校园与其所在省份紧密相连。
• Student activities are organised through college societies and a student council that runs cultural evenings, Qur'anic recitation competitions and National Day programmes.学生活动由各学院社团与学生委员会组织，内容包括文化之夜、《古兰经》诵读比赛与国庆日活动。
• Oman's National Day falls on 18 November, a public holiday since 1970, and the campus marks it with heritage displays, traditional dress and performances of the razha sword dance.阿曼国庆日为 11 月 18 日，自 1970 年起即为公共假日，校园以遗产展览、传统服饰与「拉扎」剑舞表演庆祝。
• Football and volleyball are the main inter-college sports, played on campus grounds in the cooler months between November and March.足球与排球是主要的院际运动，比赛在 11 月至次年 3 月较凉爽的月份于校内场地举行。
• The university calendar follows the Islamic year for Ramadan and the two Eids, when teaching hours are shortened and the campus empties for family visits.校历随伊斯兰历安排斋月与两个开斋节的假期，届时课时缩短，校园因师生探亲而空置。
• Since the first intake in 2010 the academic year has run from September to June in two semesters, with a short summer session used for repeat courses and language intensives.自 2010 年首次招生以来，学年一直以两个学期从 9 月延续至次年 6 月，另设短暑期班用于重修课程与语言强化。
• Female students form a majority of enrolment, consistent with the gender balance in Omani higher education, where women have outnumbered men since the 1990s.女生占在校生的多数，这与阿曼高等教育的性别结构一致，自 1990 年代以来女性人数一直超过男性。
• Ibra's Wednesday women's market and the older souq give students a commercial and social centre within walking distance of the campus gates, a routine that dates from the 2010 opening of the university.伊卜拉周三妇女市场与老集市为学生提供了步行可达的商业与社交中心，这一生活节奏自 2010 年建校招生延续至今。
• Because the university draws commuters, much of student life revolves around shared transport and the cafeterias where cohorts from the same wilayat gather between lectures.由于学生多为通勤走读，校园生活很大程度围绕拼车与食堂展开，同省同乡的学生常在课间聚在这些场所。
• Ramadan and the summer vacation split the academic year into two intense teaching blocks, and many students take ministry internships in the long break.斋月与暑假把学年切成两个高强度的教学阶段，许多学生利用长假到部委实习。

Notable people

• Sultan Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman from 1970 to 2020, created the school system whose graduates the university was licensed to teach in 2009.苏丹卡布斯·本·赛义德自 1970 年至 2020 年统治阿曼，他建立的学校体系正是该校 2009 年获准招收的学生来源。
• Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, who succeeded in January 2020, has kept higher education inside the Oman Vision 2040 framework that funds private universities.于 2020 年 1 月继位的苏丹海赛姆·本·塔里克，继续把高等教育置于为私立大学提供支持的「阿曼愿景 2040」框架之内。
• Rawya bint Saud Al Busaidi, Oman's first female minister, headed the Ministry of Higher Education when A'Sharqiyah University received its licence in 2009.拉维娅·宾特·沙特·布赛义迪是阿曼首位女性部长，该校 2009 年获得办学许可时她正担任高等教育部长。
• Mohamed Ali Akour, a member of the business faculty, serves on the editorial review board of the Amity Journal of Management Research, which carries ASU's Ibra address.商学院教师穆罕默德·阿里·阿库尔（Mohamed Ali Akour）担任《阿米蒂管理研究杂志》编审委员，该刊标注了该校的伊卜拉地址。
• Iffat Sabir, also of the business faculty, appears on the same editorial board and publishes on management and organisational behaviour from the Ibra campus.同样任职商学院的伊夫法特·萨比尔（Iffat Sabir）亦列于该刊编委会，并以伊卜拉校区名义发表管理与组织行为研究。
• Abdullahi Aliyu, a researcher in the College of Applied and Health Sciences, co-authored veterinary and public-health papers with Malaysian colleagues before 2019.应用与健康科学学院研究员阿卜杜拉希·阿利尤（Abdullahi Aliyu）在 2019 年前与马来西亚同行合作发表兽医与公共卫生论文。
• The university's alumni network is young, and most graduates have entered teaching, engineering consultancies and the Omani civil service rather than national public life.该校校友网络尚年轻，多数毕业生进入教育、工程咨询与阿曼公务员系统，尚未大批进入国家公共生活。
• Its academic links with Oklahoma State University and Texas Technological University have brought visiting American faculty to Ibra, though the university has not yet produced internationally cited senior scholars of its own.该校与俄克拉何马州立大学、得克萨斯理工大学的学术联系为伊卜拉带来美国访问教师，但尚未培养出具有国际引用影响力的资深学者。