Jadara University

Jadara University (Arabic: جامعة جدارا) is a private university in Irbid Governorate in northern Jordan, built beside the international highway north of the city of Irbid and named after the ancient city of Gadara, whose ruins lie at Umm Qais about twenty kilometres away.贾达拉大学（阿拉伯语 جامعة جدارا）是约旦北部伊勒比德省的一所私立大学，校址位于伊勒比德城以北的国际公路旁，校名取自古城加达拉（Gadara），其遗址在今乌姆盖斯（Umm Qais），距校园约二十公里。

It was approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in November 2004 and opened in 2005, and it now teaches eight colleges, mainly in Arabic with English used in science, information technology and pharmacy.该校于 2004 年 11 月获高等教育与科学研究部批准，2005 年正式开办，现设八个学院，教学以阿拉伯语为主，科学、信息技术与药学领域使用英语。

In the 2027 cycle it sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings and appears in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 without a rank, while the U.S. News 2026-2027 list and the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities do not include it, and OpenAlex records 4,363 works and 53,722 citations for it.在 2027 年周期中，该校位于 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 位区间，进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名榜单但未获名次，2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 榜单与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜均未收录，OpenAlex 记录其成果 4363 项、引用 53722 次。

History

• Jordan's public university system took shape after 1962, when the University of Jordan opened in Amman, and Irbid acquired its own institution when Yarmouk University was founded in 1976.约旦的公立大学体系在 1962 年约旦大学于安曼开办之后逐步成形，伊勒比德则在 1976 年雅尔穆克大学创办时拥有了自己的高等学府。
• The Jordan University of Science and Technology opened in 1986 at Ar Ramtha, north of Irbid, and with Yarmouk it made the governorate one of the densest concentrations of university students in the kingdom.约旦科技大学于 1986 年在伊勒比德以北的拉姆萨开办，它与雅尔穆克大学一起，使该省成为王国大学生密度最高的地区之一。
• Private higher education was licensed from the 1990s onwards, and Irbid National University, founded in 1994, was the city's first private institution and the immediate precedent for Jadara.私立高等教育自 1990 年代起获准设立，1994 年创办的伊勒比德国立大学是该市第一所私立院校，也是贾达拉大学的直接先例。
• Jadara University was approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in November 2004, and teaching began in the following year, 2005, on a site beside the international highway north of Irbid.贾达拉大学于 2004 年 11 月获高等教育与科学研究部批准，次年即 2005 年在伊勒比德以北国际公路旁的校址开始授课。
• The founders took the name from Gadara, the city of the Decapolis whose ruins stand at Umm Qais, and the choice tied a new private university to the Hellenistic and Roman past of the same landscape.创办者取古城加达拉之名，那是一座十城区同盟城市，遗址在今乌姆盖斯，这一选择把一所新办私立大学与同一片土地上的希腊化与罗马时期历史联系起来。
• Gadara was founded in the third century BC under Ptolemaic influence and became one of the ten cities of the Decapolis, a league of Hellenistic cities that included Gerasa, Philadelphia and Scythopolis.加达拉大约建于公元前三世纪，受托勒密王朝影响，后来成为十城区同盟的十座城市之一，该同盟还包括格拉森、费城与斯基托波利斯。
• The city produced the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus and the poet Meleager, both of whom worked in the first century BC and are among the best documented literary figures of the region in that period.该城孕育了伊壁鸠鲁派哲学家菲洛德穆与诗人墨勒阿格，二人皆活跃于公元前一世纪，是那一时期本地区文献记载最充分的文学人物之一。
• Gadara was destroyed by the earthquake of 749, abandoned as a city, and its ruins were later quarried by villagers, so that the Roman theatre, the aqueduct and the paved streets survive today as an archaeological site at Umm Qais.加达拉在 749 年的大地震中被毁，作为城市被放弃，遗址后来被村民取石，如今在乌姆盖斯仍可见罗马剧场、引水渠与石板街道等考古遗迹。
• The campus was placed on the highway that runs north from Irbid towards the Syrian border at Ramtha, a location chosen for road access rather than for proximity to the city centre.校园设于自伊勒比德向北通往叙利亚边境拉姆萨的国际公路旁，选址考虑的是公路可达性，而非靠近市中心。
• The university opened with a small number of colleges in business, law, education and science, and engineering, pharmacy and graduate studies were added as student numbers grew.大学开办时只设商科、法学、教育学与理学等少数几个学院，随着学生人数增长，又陆续增设工程、药学与研究生院。
• Its first bachelor's cohorts entered in 2005 and completed four-year degrees at the end of the decade, which is when the first alumni began to appear in Jordanian schools, courts, hospitals and companies.首批本科生 2005 年入学，在十年之交完成四年学业，约旦的学校、法院、医院与企业也从那时起开始出现该校的毕业生。
• Between 2010 and 2019 growth was concentrated in engineering and pharmacy, the two most expensive programmes to equip and the two that Jordanian private universities rely on to attract fee-paying students.2010 至 2019 年的增长集中在工程与药学两个方向，它们既是设备投入最高的项目，也是约旦私立大学用以吸引自费生的两大支柱。
• Jordan established the Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission for Higher Education Institutions in 2017, and Jadara's programmes have since been subject to its periodic reviews alongside the licensing conditions of the ministry.约旦于 2017 年设立高等教育机构认证与质量保障委员会，此后贾达拉大学的各项目除须满足部级办学许可条件外，还要接受该委员会的定期评审。
• The Syrian crisis that began in 2011 brought refugees into Irbid and its surrounding districts, and Jordanian universities, including Jadara, enrolled Syrian students who had interrupted their studies.2011 年开始的叙利亚危机使难民涌入伊勒比德及周边地区，包括贾达拉大学在内的约旦高校接收了学业中断的叙利亚学生。
• In 2020 the university moved its teaching online during the pandemic, using its learning management system for lectures and examinations, and returned to mixed delivery afterwards.2020 年疫情期间，学校把教学转到线上，使用学习管理系统讲授与考试，此后转为线上线下混合授课。
• The recovery after 2021 was accompanied by an effort to recruit students from outside Jordan, particularly from the Gulf and from Syrian and Palestinian communities, in a market where domestic demand is limited by demography.2021 年之后的恢复期伴随着向国外招生的努力，重点面向海湾地区以及叙利亚与巴勒斯坦社群，因为国内市场受人口结构限制而需求有限。
• By the mid-2020s the university had consolidated its eight-college structure and had begun to appear in international rankings, entering the QS table for the first time in the band it occupies in 2027.到 2020 年代中期，学校已稳定为八个学院的格局，并开始进入国际排名，首次跻身 QS 榜单即处于 2027 年所在的区间。
• The institution marked twenty years since its founding in 2025, a milestone celebrated with its alumni and with the local community in Irbid rather than with international partners.2025 年，学校迎来建校二十周年，庆典主要与校友及伊勒比德本地社区共同举行，而非面向国际伙伴。
• Its history is short by the standards of Jordanian higher education, and it presents itself as a regional institution serving the northern governorates rather than as a national flagship.按约旦高等教育的标准，该校历史尚短，它把自身定位为服务北部各省的区域性院校，而非全国性旗舰大学。

Academics

• The university is organised into eight colleges, namely engineering, pharmacy, education, law, business and administration, science and information technology, languages and humanities, and graduate studies.学校设八个学院，即工程学院、药学院、教育学院、法学院、工商管理学院、理学与信息技术学院、语言与人文学学院以及研究生院。
• The College of Engineering offers computer, communications and civil engineering, the three programmes most in demand among Jordanian students who cannot obtain a place in the public universities.工程学院开设计算机、通信与土木工程三个专业，这些也是无法进入公立大学的约旦学生最需要的方向。
• The College of Pharmacy runs a five-year professional degree with laboratory training in pharmaceutics, pharmacology and medicinal chemistry, and its graduates sit the national licensing examination.药学院开设五年制专业学位，在药剂学、药理学与药物化学方面提供实验训练，毕业生须参加国家执业资格考试。
• The College of Law teaches Jordanian civil, criminal and commercial law and prepares students for the bar association examination required to practise in the kingdom.法学院教授约旦民法、刑法与商法，并为学生备考在王国执业所需的律师协会考试。
• The College of Business and Administration covers accounting, finance, marketing, management and management information systems, and supplies the largest share of the university's undergraduate intake.工商管理学院涵盖会计、金融、市场营销、管理学与管理信息系统，是该校本科招生占比最大的学院。
• The College of Science and Information Technology teaches computer science, software engineering, mathematics and the basic sciences, mostly in English and with laboratory work in computing.理学与信息技术学院教授计算机科学、软件工程、数学与基础科学，主要以英语授课，并配有计算类实验课。
• The College of Education trains teachers for Jordanian schools and offers specialisations in classroom teaching and in educational administration and counselling.教育学院为约旦中小学培养教师，开设课堂教学以及教育管理与咨询等方向。
• The College of Languages and Humanities teaches Arabic language and literature, English language and literature, and translation, and provides the language courses required by other colleges.语言与人文学学院教授阿拉伯语言文学、英语语言文学与翻译，并承担其他学院的公共语言课程。
• The College of Graduate Studies administers master's programmes, among them a master of business administration and professional master's degrees in a small number of other fields.研究生院负责硕士项目，其中包括工商管理硕士以及少数其他领域的专业硕士。
• Undergraduate degrees follow the Jordanian credit-hour system, with bachelor's programmes requiring roughly 130 credit hours and professional degrees such as pharmacy requiring more.本科学位采用约旦的学分制，学士项目一般要求约 130 个学分，药学等专业学位则要求更多学分。
• Teaching is in Arabic in law, education, business and the humanities, while science, information technology and pharmacy use English textbooks and English examination papers.法学、教育学、商科与人文学科以阿拉伯语授课，科学、信息技术与药学则使用英文教材与英文试卷。
• The university is licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and reviewed by the national accreditation commission, and its programmes are periodically reapproved rather than permanently accredited.学校由高等教育与科学研究部颁发办学许可，并接受国家认证委员会评审，各项目需定期重新核准，而非一次性永久认证。
• The library holds Arabic and English collections in law, business, education and the sciences, and provides access to the databases that Jordanian universities subscribe to collectively.图书馆收藏法学、商科、教育学与科学领域的阿拉伯语与英语文献，并提供约旦高校联合订购的数据库访问权限。
• Laboratories serve the engineering and pharmacy colleges, with computing laboratories shared by the information technology and business programmes.实验室主要服务工程与药学两个学院，计算类实验室则由信息技术与商科项目共用。
• The faculty is composed mainly of Jordanian academics with doctorates from Jordanian, Arab and European universities, and promotion follows the national criteria for private universities.师资主要由在约旦、阿拉伯国家与欧洲高校取得博士学位的约旦学者组成，晋升依照私立大学的国家标准执行。
• Assessment combines mid-term and final examinations with coursework, and attendance rules are enforced more strictly than in the public universities because private institutions depend on fee income.考核由期中与期末考试结合平时作业构成，由于私立院校依赖学费收入，其出勤规定比公立大学执行得更严。
• The university runs community service and continuing education courses for teachers, accountants and public sector employees in Irbid and the surrounding governorates.学校为伊勒比德及周边各省的教师、会计师与公共部门职员开设社区服务与继续教育课程。
• Research activity is modest and concentrated in applied fields such as pharmaceutical formulation, water treatment and educational evaluation, often carried out with local hospitals and schools.科研活动规模有限，集中在药物制剂、水处理与教育评估等应用领域，多与本地医院和学校合作进行。

Campus

• The campus stands on the international highway north of Irbid, within reach of the city and of the crossing at Ramtha, and it is laid out as a single compact site rather than as dispersed buildings.校园位于伊勒比德以北的国际公路旁，距市区与拉姆萨口岸都不远，整体为一处紧凑的单一校区，而非分散的建筑群。
• Teaching is concentrated in a main academic building with lecture halls, laboratories and the library, around which the college offices and student services are arranged.教学集中于一座主教学楼，内设阶梯教室、实验室与图书馆，各学院办公室与学生服务设施围绕其布置。
• The campus has a mosque, a cafeteria, sports fields and parking, and its open land leaves room for the phased construction of further college buildings.校园设有清真寺、自助餐厅、运动场与停车场，其空地也为后续分期建设学院楼留出余地。
• The site looks towards the hills of northern Jordan, and the ruins of Umm Qais, with the Roman theatre and the views over the Sea of Galilee and the Golan, are a short drive away.校园面向约旦北部的丘陵，罗马剧场所在的乌姆盖斯遗址以及可俯瞰加利利海与戈兰高地的观景点都在短途车程之内。
• Irbid has a Mediterranean climate with hot dry summers and cool wet winters, and the campus is exposed to the winter winds that come off the northern hills.伊勒比德属地中海气候，夏季炎热干燥，冬季凉爽多雨，校园直接受来自北部丘陵的冬季风影响。
• Public transport to the campus is provided by university buses and by service taxis that run from the city centre along the highway.前往校园的公共交通由校车与自市中心沿公路行驶的合乘出租车提供。
• Student housing is mostly private, in apartments rented in Irbid and in the villages along the road to Ramtha, since the university provides only limited dormitory places.学生住宿以私人租赁为主，多租住伊勒比德市区及通往拉姆萨公路沿线村庄的公寓，学校自设的宿舍床位有限。
• The university's grounds include agricultural plots used by the science programmes and by the local community for demonstration crops in a region dependent on rain-fed farming.校园用地中包括若干农业试验地块，供科学类项目使用，也向本地社区展示作物种植，该地区农业依赖雨养。
• Expansion land to the north of the built campus is reserved for engineering workshops, a larger library and additional student facilities as enrolment grows.建成区以北的预留用地用于工程车间、更大的图书馆以及随招生增长所需的学生设施。

Reputation

• QS placed Jadara in the 1201-1400 band in its 2027 world ranking, the band in which the ranking groups institutions that fall outside the top thousand but still meet its publication thresholds.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，贾达拉大学位于第 1201-1400 位区间，该区间收录的是未进入前一千名、但仍达到其论文门槛的院校。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it appears as a reporter, meaning that it submitted data and was listed but did not receive a rank.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校以「报告者」身份出现，即提交了数据并列入榜单，但未获得名次。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027 does not include it, and the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities leaves it out of the main table as well.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单未收录该校，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜同样未将其列入。
• OpenAlex records 4,363 works and 53,722 citations under its name, about twelve citations per work, a level consistent with a teaching-led private university rather than a research institution.OpenAlex 以该校名义记录成果 4363 项、引用 53722 次，平均每篇约十二次，这一水平更接近以教学为主的私立大学，而非研究型机构。
• Within Jordan it belongs to the second tier of private universities, behind the oldest and best-endowed institutions and alongside Irbid National University, the Hashemite University and Al al-Bayt University in regional reputation.在约旦国内，它属于私立大学的第二梯队，落后于历史最久、资金最充足的院校，在区域声誉上与伊勒比德国立大学、哈希姆大学与阿尔贝特大学相当。
• Its strongest local reputation is in pharmacy and engineering, where its graduates enter hospitals, contractors and telecommunications companies in the north of the kingdom.其在本地的声誉以药学与工程最强，毕业生进入王国北部的医院、承包商与电信企业。
• It is measured against Yarmouk University and the Jordan University of Science and Technology, the two public institutions of the region, although their budgets and research output are on a different scale.人们把它与该地区两所公立院校雅尔穆克大学与约旦科技大学相比较，尽管两者的预算与科研产出在另一个量级。
• Iranian and Gulf recruitment fairs and Jordanian ministry scholarships determine much of its student flow, and its international visibility remains limited outside the Arab world.伊朗与海湾地区的招生展会以及约旦部委奖学金在很大程度上决定了其生源流向，其在阿拉伯世界之外的国际知名度仍然有限。
• The university's research profile is concentrated in applied health and environmental work, and its staff publish mainly in regional and applied journals rather than in high-impact international titles.学校的科研面貌集中在应用健康与环境领域，教师主要在本地区与应用类期刊发表，而非高影响因子的国际刊物。
• Its QS entry and its appearance in the Times Higher Education data collection are recent, and the university presents them as evidence of a gradual internationalisation rather than of research strength.该校进入 QS 榜单与泰晤士高等教育的数据收集都属近年之事，校方将其视为逐步国际化的证据，而非科研实力的证明。

Student life

• Most students commute from Irbid and the surrounding towns, and the academic day is organised around the bus schedules that bring them to the campus in the morning and take them back in the afternoon.多数学生从伊勒比德及周边城镇通勤，教学日的时间安排围绕早晚往返的校车班次组织。
• Student clubs cover engineering competitions, pharmacy awareness campaigns, debate, volunteering, sport and cultural activities, and each college sponsors at least one society.学生社团涵盖工程竞赛、药学宣传、辩论、志愿服务、体育与文化活动，每个学院至少支持一个社团。
• The student council represents the student body to the administration and organises the annual spring festival and the graduation ceremonies.学生会向校方代表学生群体，并组织一年一度的春季文化节与毕业典礼。
• Sports activity centres on football, basketball and table tennis, and the university teams play against other Jordanian private universities in regional tournaments.体育活动以足球、篮球与乒乓球为主，校队参加其他约旦私立大学组织的地区性赛事。
• Ramadan changes the rhythm of the campus, with shorter teaching days and communal iftar organised by the student societies.斋月改变了校园节奏，教学日缩短，学生社团组织集体开斋。
• The city of Irbid offers cafés, markets and a lively student quarter around Yarmouk University, and many Jadara students share its social life with students of the public universities.伊勒比德市区有咖啡馆、市场与雅尔穆克大学周边热闹的学生街区，许多贾达拉学生与公立大学学生共享这一社交生活。
• Weekend excursions to Umm Qais, Ajloun and the Jordan Valley are common, and the archaeology of Gadara is used in orientation activities for new students.周末前往乌姆盖斯、阿杰隆与约旦河谷的短途旅行十分常见，加达拉的考古遗迹也被用于新生入学教育活动。
• Part-time work in shops, pharmacies and family businesses is widespread, since many students pay part of their fees themselves.在商店、药房与家族企业兼职十分普遍，因为许多学生要自行承担部分学费。
• Because dormitory places are scarce, student life is organised around rented flats and family homes rather than around a residential campus.由于宿舍床位紧张，学生生活围绕租赁公寓与家庭住所展开，而非围绕住宿制校园。

Notable people

• The founding committee approved by the Ministry of Higher Education in November 2004 consisted of Jordanian academics and investors who obtained the licence and assembled the first colleges.2004 年 11 月获高等教育与科学研究部批准的创办委员会由约旦学者与投资人组成，他们取得办学许可并组建了最初的几个学院。
• The chairman and members of the board of trustees, appointed under Jordanian private university law, hold the licence and appoint the president, and their names are published in the ministry's register.董事会主席与成员依约旦私立大学法任命，持有办学许可并任命校长，其姓名在高等教育与科学研究部名册上公布。
• The first president of the university, appointed in 2005, organised the academic staff and the initial programmes in business, law, education and science.学校首任校长于 2005 年受任，负责组建教师队伍以及商科、法学、教育学与理学的最初项目。
• The deans who built the College of Pharmacy and the College of Engineering in the 2010s established the laboratory teaching that now underpins the university's professional reputation.2010 年代建设药学院与工程学院的院长们建立了实验教学体系，这一体系如今支撑着学校的专业声誉。
• Its graduates in pharmacy practise in hospitals and community pharmacies across Irbid, Amman and Zarqa, and some have opened their own pharmacies in the northern governorates.药学毕业生在伊勒比德、安曼与扎尔卡的各医院及社区药房执业，其中一些人在北部各省开设了自己的药房。
• Graduates of the College of Law have entered the Jordanian bar and the public prosecution service, and a smaller number have joined the judiciary after further training.法学院毕业生进入约旦律师界与公诉机关，少数人在接受进一步培训后进入司法系统。
• Engineers from the university work for contractors, telecommunications operators and municipalities in northern Jordan, and the civil engineering programme supplies staff for road and water projects.该校的工程师供职于约旦北部的承包商、电信运营商与市政机构，土木工程专业为道路与水利项目输送人员。
• The university's honorary doctorates are conferred on Jordanian public figures and on academics from Arab universities at the annual graduation ceremony, and the list of recipients is not published in full.学校在年度毕业典礼上向约旦公共人物与阿拉伯国家高校的学者授予荣誉博士学位，受衔者名单并未完整公布。