Dhofar University

Dhofar University is a non-profit private university in Salalah, the capital of the Dhofar Governorate in southern Oman, and it is the only institution in that governorate offering both undergraduate and postgraduate study.佐法尔大学是阿曼南部佐法尔省首府萨拉拉的一所非营利私立高校，也是该省内唯一同时提供本科与研究生教育的大学。

The university was created by Ministerial Decree No. 5/2004 in January 2004 and formally commenced operations in September 2004, taking over the former premises of the National College of Technology, which was subsequently merged into it.该校依据 2004 年 1 月颁布的部长令第 5/2004 号设立，并于 2004 年 9 月正式开学，办学地址原为国家科技学院院址，该学院随后被并入佐法尔大学。

It teaches roughly three to five thousand students across six colleges on a single 450,000 square metre campus engineered to hold 10,000 students, and it is placed in the 901-950 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校在六所学院规模下招收约三千至五千名学生，校园为按一万人在读规模建设的单一校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 901-950 位。

History

• The legal act of foundation was Ministerial Decree No. 5/2004, issued in January 2004 by the Omani higher education authorities, which licensed the university as a non-profit private institution.其法定创办文件是 2004 年 1 月由阿曼高教主管部门签发的部长令第 5/2004 号，该令批准佐法尔大学作为非营利私立高校办学。

• Teaching began in September 2004, a date the university restates on its own front page with the sentence that DU formally commenced its operations in September 2004.教学于 2004 年 9 月开始，大学首页以「DU formally commenced its operations in September 2004」一句重申这一开学年月。

• The first lectures were held in 2004 on the old campus of the National College of Technology, and that college was then formally amalgamated into Dhofar University rather than left as a separate body.首批课程于 2004 年在国家科技学院的旧校园开设，该学院其后被正式并入佐法尔大学，而非继续作为独立机构存在。

• The Times Higher Education institutional record and the QS profile both give the founding year as 2004, and the alternative dates of 2001 or 2002 found in some compilations have no source in official or ranking material.泰晤士高等教育院校档案与 QS 官方档案均记建校年为 2004 年，部分汇编中的 2001 年或 2002 年之说在官方与榜单材料中查无出处。

• The university takes its name from the Dhofar Governorate, whose capital Salalah is its only place of teaching, so the institution and the province share a single title.校名取自佐法尔省，萨拉拉作为该省首府是该校唯一办学地，因此学校与省份共用同一名称。

• Omani higher education had begun earlier with Sultan Qaboos University, the country's first public university, founded in 1986, and with Majan University College, recorded as the first private higher education institution in 1995 or 1996.阿曼高教起步更早：苏丹卡布斯大学作为首所公立大学创办于 1986 年，马詹大学学院则在 1995 或 1996 年成为全国第一所私立高教机构。

• Dhofar University therefore belongs to Oman's first wave of private universities rather than being the country's first private institution, and it was licensed in 2004 by the ministry that supervises universities today.佐法尔大学因而属于阿曼第一波私立大学而非全国首家私立机构，并于 2004 年由现今监管高校的部门颁发办学资格。

• Among private universities in Oman it was one of the earliest to organise study on the American higher education model, offering two-year diplomas alongside four-year bachelor's degrees.在阿曼私立大学中，它是最早按美国高教体系组织教学的院校之一，同时提供两年制文凭与四年制学士学位。

• Governance rests on a Board of Trustees described as the highest decision-making organ of the university, while the Vice Chancellor holds the office of chief executive officer.学校治理以校董会为核心，校董会被称为大学最高决策机构，副校长则担任行政首席执行官一职。

• The official website keeps separate pages for the organisation chart, the register of trustees and the university council, so the chain of command is published even though individual office-holders are not named in static text.官网另设组织结构图、校董会名录与校务委员会专页，指挥体系对外公开，只是静态页面未列出任职者姓名。

• In December 2018 the university received national institutional accreditation from OAAAQA, the Omani accreditation and quality assurance body, and records itself as the first private university in Oman to be accredited nationally.2018 年 12 月，该校获阿曼学术认证与高等教育质量保证局（OAAAQA）的机构认证，并自述为阿曼第一所取得国家认证的私立大学。

• In the 2019-20 academic year the teaching structure was four colleges: Arts and Applied Sciences, Commerce and Business Administration, Engineering and Law, carrying twenty-six undergraduate programmes.2019-20 学年教学建制为四所学院：文艺与应用科学学院、商学与工商管理学院、工学院与法学院，共设 26 个本科专业。

• The four-college structure of 2019-20 later grew to five with the addition of the Dhofar University College of Medicine, which continues to operate from its own sub-domain and runs an undergraduate medical programme.2019-20 学年的四学院建制其后增至五个，新增佐法尔大学医学院，该学院以独立子域运行，并开设本科医学项目。

• A sixth unit, the College of Preparatory Studies, runs its own site and on 21 May 2025 published its final examination timetable for the third semester of the 2024-25 academic year.第六个单位是预科学习学院，设有独立站点，并于 2025 年 5 月 21 日公布 2024-25 学年第三学期的期末考试时间表。

• The undergraduate catalogue for 2024-25 was released on 17 December 2024, fixing programme requirements, and the registration and add-drop dates for the following spring semester were announced on 27 January 2025.2024-25 版本科目录于 2024 年 12 月 17 日发布以固定课程要求，随后春季学期的注册与加减选日程于 2025 年 1 月 27 日公告。

• In the QS World University Rankings 2025 the university was listed in the 851-900 band, one of only a small number of Omani institutions carried into that edition of the table.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校列入第 851-900 档，是当年少数参评的阿曼院校之一。

• Chinese-language directories once rendered the name as 德霍尔大学, and the list of Omani higher education institutions published by the Embassy of Oman on 23 September 2012 already recorded Dhofar University under its English title.中文名录早年曾把校名译作「德霍尔大学」，而阿曼驻华使馆 2012 年 9 月 23 日发布的高教机构名单已按英文名收录佐法尔大学。

• Its registered postal address is P.O. Box 2509, Postal Code 211, Salalah, which the QS profile carries as the university's contact point.其登记通信地址为萨拉拉邮政信箱 2509 号、邮编 211，QS 官方档案以此作为学校联络地址。

• The university is documented as the only institution in the Dhofar region that offers graduate as well as undergraduate degrees, a distinction its ranking profiles repeat.材料记载该校是佐法尔地区唯一同时提供研究生与本科学位的院校，其榜单档案亦重申这一定位。

• The roster of Omani higher education institutions published by the Embassy of Oman on 23 September 2012 set Dhofar University beside Sultan Qaboos University, Majan University College, Muscat University College, Sur University College, Alburaimi University College, the German University of Technology in Oman, Middle East College, Mazoon College, Modern College of Business and Science, Scientific College of Design, Caledonian College of Engineering, Fire Safety Engineering College, Oman Medical College, Ibra College of Technology and Al Musanna College of Technology, a full snapshot of the sector the Salalah university had just entered.阿曼驻华使馆 2012 年 9 月 23 日公布的高教机构名录，把佐法尔大学与苏丹卡布斯大学、马詹大学学院、马斯喀特大学学院、苏尔大学学院、阿尔布鲁艾米大学学院、在阿曼的德国技术大学、中东学院、马宗学院、现代商业与科学学院、科学设计学院、加里东工程学院、消防安全工程学院、阿曼医学院、伊布技术学院、穆桑纳技术学院并列，完整呈现这所萨拉拉大学初入行的行业格局。

• Oman's private sector had already produced Middle East College, created in 2000 at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat as a dedicated information technology college, and Gulf College of Oman, licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education since 2004, the same year that teaching opened at Dhofar University in Salalah.阿曼私立高教此前已孕育两所院校：2000 年在马斯喀特知识绿洲园区创设、专攻信息技术的学院，以及 2004 年起由高等教育部颁照的海湾学院，后者取得许可之年恰与佐法尔大学在萨拉拉开学之年相同。

• Sohar University, approved in 2003 as the first private university of its kind in Oman, preceded the January 2004 ministerial decree that licensed Dhofar University and remains the closest private comparator in the QS tables.苏哈尔大学早在 2003 年即获批成为阿曼同类私立大学中的第一家，先于 2004 年 1 月为佐法尔大学发照的部长令，至今仍是在 QS 榜单上最贴近的私立对照对象。

• On the public side, Royal Decree No. 62/2007 turned Oman's former colleges of education into six Colleges of Applied Sciences with one of them at Salalah, and the Ministry of Manpower operates colleges of technology in six locations that likewise include Salalah, giving the Dhofar Governorate state alternatives to the private university opened in 2004.公立一侧，第 62/2007 号皇家法令把阿曼原有的师范学院改组为六所应用科学学院并在萨拉拉设其一，劳工部亦在含萨拉拉在内的六地开办技术学院，因此佐法尔省在 2004 年开学的私立大学之外另有公立选择。

Academics

• Teaching is divided among six units, the Colleges of Arts and Applied Sciences, Commerce and Business Administration, Engineering, Law, Medicine and Preparatory Studies, each of which maintains its own sub-domain on the university's domain.教学分为六个单位，即文艺与应用科学学院、商学与工商管理学院、工学院、法学院、医学院与预科学习学院，各单位在校园主域之下另设子站。

• In the 2019-20 session the twenty-six undergraduate programmes covered five broad fields, namely humanities and arts, business and management, engineering, natural sciences and social sciences.2019-20 学年的 26 个本科专业覆盖五大学科门类，即人文艺术、商业与管理、工程、自然科学与社会科学。

• The university's profile page states that it now offers 56 programmes in total, while its official professional-network entry gives the rounder count of more than fifty bachelor's degrees and more than twenty master's degrees.学校概况页称现共设 56 个专业，官方职业社交页则给出较笼统的口径：50 余个本科专业与 20 余个硕士专业。

• Instruction is conducted mainly in English, with a minority of programmes taught in Arabic, a language policy the Times Higher Education profile records for the university.授课语言以英语为主，少数专业以阿拉伯语授课，此语言政策见于泰晤士高等教育的院校档案。

• Enrolment is reported at about 5,300 students on the university's own profile page, a figure larger than the ranking counts drawn from the same period.学校概况页自报在校生约 5,300 人，该数字大于同期榜单档案所录取的人数。

• The QS profile counts 3,049 students with a student-to-staff ratio of 15.9 to 1, an international share of 7 percent and a male-to-female split of 53 to 47.QS 官方档案记 3,049 名学生，生师比为 15.9 比 1，国际学生占 7%，男女比为 53 比 47。

• A second QS page for undergraduate study gives 3,256 students, 176 academic staff and 189 internationally mobile students, so the two official QS views of size differ.QS 本科页面另记 3,256 名学生、176 名教师与 189 名国际学生，两份官方口径的规模并不一致。

• A ranking mirror records about 3,028 students, a student-to-staff ratio of 15.1 to 1 and an international share of 7.2 percent, all three close to but not identical with the QS figures.榜单镜像站记约 3,028 名学生、生师比 15.1 比 1、国际生占 7.2%，三项均与 QS 数值接近却不完全相同。

• Staffing is published as 199 full-time academics together with 22 part-time lecturers on the profile page, and the proportion of faculty holding doctorates appears among the headline indicators on the front page.概况页披露教师为 199 名全职加 22 名兼职，首页统计条亦把拥有博士学位教师的占比列为对外披露指标之一。

• Teaching and research are supported by a dedicated research portal on the university's internal system, which presents achievements, support arrangements and the teams of researchers.校内系统设有专门的研究门户，用于呈现科研成果、支持体系与研究人员团队。

• The library keeps an independent search site, but no count of printed volumes or electronic resources is disclosed in the material available.图书馆设有独立检索站点，但可得材料未披露纸本馆藏册数或电子资源数量。

• OpenAlex attributes 3,596 scholarly works and 72,785 citations to the institution, the quantitative baseline for its research output.OpenAlex 记该校机构产出 3,596 条学术作品、被引 72,785 次，可作为其科研产出的量化基线。

• The QS profile attaches a research strength label of Very High to the university, a qualitative counterpart to the citation count.QS 档案为该校标注研究强度为「极高」，可视为引用计数之外的定性对应指标。

• Published papers carry the university's departmental structure in their affiliation lines, for example a 2021 article in Frontiers in Chemistry credited to the Department of Mathematics and Sciences within the College of Arts and Applied Sciences.已发表论文的机构署名可见其院系建制，例如 2021 年《化学前沿》一篇文章即署名为文艺与应用科学学院数学与科学学系。

• Engineering papers are signed from the DU College of Engineering as a separate academic unit, confirming that the discipline has its own faculty body rather than a department inside another college.工程类论文以佐法尔大学（DU）工学院为独立学术单位署名，说明该学科自有教师建制，而非附设于其他学院之下的学系。

• Cost to students is published as a per-credit charge of 70 to 150 Omani rials, varying by college and programme, and no endowment or annual budget figure is disclosed.学生费用按学分计为 70 至 150 阿曼里亚尔，随学院与专业而异，学校未披露捐赠基金或年度预算数字。

• In the Omani private tier the university sits with institutions such as Sohar University, which was placed in the 951-1000 band of the QS table for 2024.在阿曼私立梯队中，该校与苏哈尔大学等院校并列，后者在 2024 年 QS 榜单中被列入第 951-1000 档。

• Academic administration and learning services run on the du.edu.om domain, where caas, ccba, ce, cl, cm and cps mark the six colleges, rstpwd carries the library catalogue and the web sub-domain hosts the online admissions system.教学行政与学习服务均运行于大学主域（du.edu.om）之下，六个学院分别使用（caas / ccba / ce / cl / cm / cps）子域，图书馆馆藏检索位于（rstpwd），在线招生系统另有专门入口。

• Within the same private sector, Gulf College of Oman delivers its business degrees through a franchise arrangement with Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom, while Dhofar University, licensed in 2004, organises its own teaching on the American credit model with two-year diplomas and four-year bachelor's degrees.同一私立梯队中，阿曼海湾学院经由与英国斯塔福德郡大学的合作办学授予商学学位，而 2004 年发照的佐法尔大学按美国学分制自行组织教学，两年制文凭与四年制学士学位并行。

Campus

• The whole university occupies one campus in Salalah at latitude 17.01505 and longitude 54.09237, a site set between the Dhofar mountains and the coast of the Arabian Sea.全校集中于萨拉拉单一校区，坐标为北纬 17.01505、东经 54.09237，校址地处佐法尔山区与阿拉伯海海岸之间。

• The campus area is given as 450,000 square metres on the university's profile page, and it is described in the ranking record as built to accommodate 10,000 students at full use.学校概况页记校园占地 45 万平方米，榜单档案则称该校园按容纳 1 万名学生的规模建设。

• Local accounts of Salalah record that the university has built a new campus costing 25 million Omani rials, the largest capital figure published for the institution.萨拉拉的地方条目记载该校新建了一座造价 2,500 万阿曼里亚尔的校园，这是该校对外披露的最大投资数字。

• Its buildings are described as a mixture of modern construction and traditional Omani architectural treatment, rather than a single imported campus style.校园建筑被描述为现代建造手法与传统阿曼建筑样式的混合，而非整体移植的外来校园风格。

• Residential provision consists of four dormitory blocks that can house up to 1,000 students, and furnished accommodation on campus is offered free of charge to female students.学生宿舍共四栋楼，最多容纳 1,000 人，校方为女生提供免费家具配置的校内住宿。

• Female residents are also given local transport, a commuting arrangement recorded alongside the housing offer in the Times Higher Education profile.住宿女生另可获校内交通接送，该项安排在泰晤士高等教育档案中与住宿条件一并记载。

• Within the residential precinct are a restaurant, a supermarket, a study hall, a gymnasium and an activity room, and dining on campus is organised as two separate cafeterias divided by gender.宿舍区内设餐厅、超市、自习厅、健身房与活动室，校内餐饮按性别分设两处食堂。

• Each college runs its own website sub-domain from its disciplinary zone, so the academic map of the campus is visible in the structure of the university's web estate.各学院按学科分区在自有子域上建站办公，校园的学科版图由此体现在学校网站的整体结构之中。

• The campus stands in Salalah, capital of the Dhofar Governorate, the largest of Oman's eleven governorates by area at 99,300 square kilometres, holding 416,458 inhabitants at the 2020 census and divided into ten wilayats.校园坐落于佐法尔省首府萨拉拉。该省是阿曼 11 个省份中面积最大者，幅员 99,300 平方公里，2020 年普查人口 416,458 人，下辖 10 个州。

• Salalah supplies the regional setting, with an international airport, one of the larger seaports of the Middle East and the Khareef monsoon that brings rain from mid-June to mid-September, three humid months rare on the southern Arabian coast.萨拉拉为学校提供区域背景：城中有国际机场与规模居中东前列的港口，季风雨（Khareef）自 6 月中旬持续至 9 月中旬，为阿拉伯南部海岸带来少见的三个月湿润天气。

Reputation

• The QS World University Rankings 2027 place Dhofar University in the 901-950 band, the ranking position for which this entry is written.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将佐法尔大学列入第 901-950 位，本条目即据此档位收录。

• In the preceding QS edition, the 2026 table, the university was listed at 851-900, so its position in the same band series slipped one place-band downwards.在上一版即 2026 年 QS 榜单中该校列第 851-900 位，故在同一档位系列中下降了一个名次区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 601-650 band, a narrower range than the 601-800 band recorded for it in the 2026 edition.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 601-650 位，比 2026 年版所记的第 601-800 位区间更窄。

• The university's front page carries the claim that it is the first university in Oman ranked by the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024, a league table built on the United Nations sustainable development goals.学校首页挂出「按 2024 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名位列阿曼第一」的宣称，该榜单以联合国可持续发展目标为基线。

• Subject-level standing is reported at 251-300 in the QS ranking for English language and literature and at 501-600 for engineering in the Times Higher Education subject tables.学科维度名次见榜单镜像：QS 英语语言文学列 251-300，泰晤士高等教育工程类列 501-600。

• Regionally the university is placed around 87 in the QS Arab Region University Rankings, and press coverage of the 2025 Arab table named it among newly ranked private universities and inside the regional top sixteen on several indicators.区域排名上该校约列 QS 阿拉伯地区大学排名第 87 位，2025 年阿拉伯地区榜单报道将其列为新入围的私立大学之一，并进入该榜若干指标的前 16 所。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking, and it does not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) Academic Ranking of World Universities main list.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中未收录该校，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜亦未见其名次。

• Its measurable output stood at 3,596 works and 72,785 citations in the OpenAlex institutional record, giving a mean of roughly twenty citations for every work deposited.可计量的产出为 OpenAlex 机构记录中的 3,596 条作品与 72,785 次被引，平均每条作品约获二十次引用。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the institution, and its highest honours are institutional, resting on the OAAAQA national accreditation of December 2018 and on QS's Very High research-strength label.该校未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物关联，其荣誉均为机构层面，依据是 2018 年 12 月的国家认证与 QS 的「极高」研究强度标签。

• By regional comparison, Gulf College of Oman was listed in the 251-300 band of the QS Arab Region Rankings for 2026 while Dhofar University stood near 87, so the two Omani private institutions occupy widely different segments of the same regional table.以地区榜单对照，2026 年 QS 阿拉伯地区排名中阿曼海湾学院列第 251-300 位，而佐法尔大学约居第 87 位，两所阿曼私立院校在同一地区榜上分处相当不同的区段。

Student life

• The published vision asks the university to occupy a distinct position among the leading institutions of higher education in the Arab Region, an explicitly regional ambition rather than a global one.校方愿景原文要求学校「在阿拉伯地区高等教育机构中占据独特地位」，其抱负明确指向区域而非全球。

• The mission commits it to provide quality teaching and learning, to conduct research in an inspiring environment conducive to creativity and innovation, and to engage with the community.使命原文承诺提供优质教与学、在鼓励创新的环境中开展研究，并参与社区服务。

• Six core values are published for the community as Excellence, Integrity, Responsibility, Commitment, Transparency and Adaptability, and the university has no separate motto in its own material.校方公布六项核心价值观：卓越、诚信、责任、承诺、透明与适应性，而学校自身材料中并无独立校训。

• Campus life is a standing section of the official website, and sport is given an institutional home of its own at the university's sports sub-domain.校内生活是官网的固定栏目，体育活动另设大学体育子站作为专门入口。

• Everyday physical activity is housed in the residential precinct, where the dormitory blocks provide a gymnasium and an activity room for students living on campus.日常锻炼依托宿舍区设施，学生宿舍楼内配有健身房与活动室供住校生使用。

• The academic year follows a repeated calendar of traditions: registration and add-drop in January, spring final examinations in early May and the third-semester preparatory examinations in late May.学年循固定历法运转：一月注册与加减选、五月初春季期末考试、五月下旬预科第三学期考试。

• Student services are delivered online, and the university published a guide titled How to Register Online on 19 June 2024 so that enrolment can be completed without attending the campus.学生事务已线上化，学校于 2024 年 6 月 19 日发布题为「如何在线注册」的指引，使学生无需到校即可完成注册。

• The student body is described as 53 percent female with about 189 internationally mobile students, roughly seven percent of the whole, on the 2026 QS counts.按 2026 年 QS 口径，学生中女生占 53%，国际学生约 189 人，约占全校学生的百分之七。

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• The founding subject of the university is institutional rather than personal, since Ministerial Decree No. 5/2004 was issued by the Omani ministry responsible for higher education, research and innovation, which remains its licensing authority.该校的创办主体是机构而非个人：部长令第 5/2004 号由阿曼主管高等教育、科研与创新的部门签发，该部门至今仍是其发证监管方。

• Office-holders are identified in official material only by title, with the Board of Trustees as the highest decision-making body and the Vice Chancellor as chief executive, and no personal names appear in the pages that can be read statically.官方材料仅以职务指称任职者：校董会为最高决策机构、副校长为首席执行官，可静态阅读的页面中未出现任何人名。

• The names and terms of the founding president and of the first and current vice chancellors are not recoverable from the university's overview and organisation pages, whose organogram is published as an image.创办校长与首任及现任副校长的姓名和任期无法从学校概况页与组织页取得，其组织结构图以图片形式发布。

• Named individuals surface in the scholarly record rather than the biographical one, since papers list faculty under departmental affiliations such as the Department of Mathematics and Sciences of the College of Arts and Applied Sciences.具名人物出现在科研记录而非人物志材料中，论文以院系署名方式列出教师，例如文艺与应用科学学院数学与科学学系。

• Engineering research is signed from the College of Engineering as a distinct body, and a 2021 article in Frontiers in Chemistry shows such faculty authorship attached to the Salalah campus.工程类研究以工学院为独立主体署名，2021 年《化学前沿》一篇文章即显示此类教师署名归于萨拉拉校区。

• The professional-network page for the university reports an associated population of about 500 people in Salalah, a platform count that is broader than the published figure of 199 full-time academics.该校职业社交页显示在萨拉拉的关联人员约 500 人，此平台计数宽于已公布的 199 名全职教师数字。

• Its regional contemporaries supply the human geography behind the institution, from Sultan Qaboos, the ruler after whom the 1986 public university at Muscat is named, to the founders of Majan University College in the mid-1990s.其区域同侪构成该校背后的人物地理：1986 年创办的公立大学以苏丹卡布斯命名，马詹大学学院亦由 1990 年代中期的创办者开启私立高教。

• No student union, society, student newspaper or named sports team appears in the public record, and the alumni total shown on the front page is an animated counter whose value is not stated in static text.公开记录中未见学生会、社团、学生媒体或具名校队，首页校友总数只是动态计数器，静态页面未给出数值。