Mutah University

Mutah University, also spelled Mu'tah University, is a public university in the town of Mu'tah in Karak Governorate in southern Jordan, about 135 kilometres south of Amman and 12 kilometres from Karak Castle.穆塔大学又译穆厄塔大学，是约旦南部卡拉克省穆塔镇的一所公立大学，位于安曼以南约 135 公里、距卡拉克城堡 12 公里处。

It was founded by Royal Decree on 22 March 1981 to be a national institution for military and civilian higher education, and takes its name from the Battle of Mu'tah fought against the Byzantines in the early Islamic era. It is the only Jordanian university that combines officer training with civilian degree programmes on one campus.该校于 1981 年 3 月 22 日依王室敕令创办，定位为兼顾军事与民用高等教育的国家级学府，其校名取自伊斯兰早期对抗拜占庭的穆塔之战；它也是约旦唯一在同一校园内把军官训练与民用学位项目结合起来的大学。

It teaches about 15,000 students through 16 colleges with more than 700 faculty members, is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, and recorded 7,682 works with 136,012 citations in OpenAlex, making it one of the larger public universities in southern Jordan.该校通过 16 个学院培养约 1.5 万名学生，教职人员逾 700 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 1001-1200 位，据 OpenAlex 记载有 7682 篇文献与 136012 次被引，是约旦南部规模较大的公立大学之一。

History

• Mutah was founded on 22 March 1981 by a Royal Decree of King Hussein bin Talal, which created it as a national institution for both military and civilian higher education in southern Jordan, on a site associated with one of the most celebrated battles of early Islamic history.穆塔大学于 1981 年 3 月 22 日依国王侯赛因·本·塔拉勒的王室敕令创办，定位为约旦南部兼顾军事与民用高等教育的国家级学府，校址所在地区与伊斯兰早期最著名的战役之一相关联。

• The university is named after the Battle of Mu'tah, an early Islamic engagement against the Byzantines that stands as a turning point in the history of Islam.该校以穆塔之战命名，这场伊斯兰早期对抗拜占庭的战役被视为伊斯兰历史上的转折点。

• The new institution was organised in two wings, a military wing and a civilian wing, an arrangement still unique in the Jordanian system.这所新学府按军事与民用两翼建制，这一安排在约旦高教体系中至今独一无二。

• The military wing began normal operations in 1984, taking its first cadets into the military colleges, where they combine a university degree with officer training under the Jordanian armed forces.军事校区于 1984 年开始正常运行，招收首批学员进入军事学院，学员在此把大学学位与约旦武装部队的军官训练结合在一起。

• The civilian wing was established in 1986 under a decision of the Ministry of Higher Education, opening the university to ordinary students.民用校区于 1986 年依高等教育部决议设立，使该校向普通学生敞开大门。

• Engineering workshops were established on the campus in 1985, attached to the College of Engineering in the military wing and used for research and student training.工程车间于 1985 年在校园设立，隶属军事校区的工程学院，用于科研与学生实训。

• The Faculty of Arts began as the Department of Humanities in the mid-1980s and was established as a full faculty in 1990, teaching Arabic and English language and literature.文学院起初为 1980 年代中期的「人文学」系，1990 年正式建院，教授阿拉伯语与英语语言文学。

• In 1994 the Faculty of Agriculture was established and sited away from the main campus, at Rabba about 125 kilometres from Amman, because of its need for practical field work.农学院于 1994 年成立，因需开展田间实训而设于主校区之外、距安曼约 125 公里的拉巴。

• The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 2001, following the vision of King Abdullah II that the kingdom needed more doctors and a medical school in its southern region.医学院于 2001 年成立，其缘起是国王阿卜杜拉二世的构想，即约旦需要更多医生并在南部地区设立医学院。

• The medical faculty admitted 27 students in the academic year 2001/2002, and that intake had grown to 185 by the academic year 2009/2010.医学院 2001 至 2002 学年录取 27 名学生，到 2009 至 2010 学年招生规模已增至 185 人。

• Its Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree requires a minimum of 262 credit hours, made up of 31 university requirements, 10 basic scientific requirements, 86 basic medical science requirements and 135 medical science requirements.其内外全科医学士学位要求至少修满 262 个学分，包含 31 个大学必修课学分、10 个基础科学学分、86 个基础医学学分与 135 个临床医学学分。

• That medical programme runs over a minimum of six academic years, extendable to eight, and requires a cumulative average of at least 60 per cent.该医学课程至少修读六个学年、最长可延至八年，并要求累积平均分不低于 60%。

• Animal production was added to the agriculture curriculum in 1996, food manufacturing followed in 2002, and a conservation specialism opened in 2010.动物养殖方向于 1996 年加入农学课程，食品制造方向随后于 2002 年开设，保护方向则于 2010 年设立。

• In the field of postgraduate study the university established a Ph.D. programme in Arabic language and literature, together with master's programmes in the sciences, literature and languages, economics and management, geography, electrical engineering in communications, education, law and police studies.在研究生教育方面，该校设立了阿拉伯语言文学博士项目，以及理学、文学与语言、经济与管理、地理、通信方向电气工程、教育、法律与警务研究等硕士项目。

• The university issues three journals, the Humanities and Social Sciences Series, the Natural and Applied Sciences Series and the Jordan Journal of Arabic Language and Literature, the last published with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.该校出版三种学术期刊，即人文与社会科学学刊、自然科学与应用科学学刊，以及与高等教育与科学研究部合作出版的《约旦阿拉伯语言文学杂志》。

• Two deanships, the Deanship of Scientific Research and the Deanship of Student Affairs, sit alongside the colleges in the university's structure.在该校的建制中，与各学院并列的还有两个处级机构，即科研处与学生事务处。

• In its 42 years of military-wing operation the campus has graduated about 14,000 military trainees and 34 holders of the Sword of Honour.军事校区运行 42 年间，累计培养约 1.4 万名军事学员与 34 名荣誉之剑获得者。

• Muhammad Ali Sweilem Al-Khalayleh, admitted in 1984 and graduating in law on 2 July 1988, was the first military graduate of the wing to receive the Sword of Honour.穆罕默德·阿里·斯韦莱姆·哈拉伊莱于 1984 年入学、1988 年 7 月 2 日以法律专业毕业，是该军事校区首位获得荣誉之剑的毕业生。

• An outstanding doctoral dissertation award from the Woodcock-Munoz Foundation in Chicago in 2010 stands among the honours recorded for the university's teaching staff.该校教师所获荣誉中，包括 2010 年由芝加哥伍德科克-穆尼奥斯基金会颁发的优秀博士论文奖。

• In 2023 Mutah reached the five-star category of the QS Stars rating system, an evaluation the university has described as a historic advance.穆塔大学于 2023 年进入 QS 星级评定的五星类别，校方称此次提升具有历史意义。

• On the regional side, the university has continued to appear in the Arab University Ranking and in the QS Arab Region table while expanding the postgraduate programmes it offers.在地区层面，该校持续进入阿拉伯大学排名与 QS 阿拉伯地区榜单，同时不断扩大其研究生项目。

Academics

• Mutah University is organised into 16 colleges, divided into a scientific group of eight and a humanities group of eight, one of the broadest faculty groupings among Jordan's public universities.穆塔大学由 16 个学院组成，分为理科类 8 个与人文类 8 个，是约旦公立大学中学院门类最齐全者之一。

• The scientific colleges are Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Science, Pharmacy, Allied Medical Sciences and Information Technology.理科类学院为农学院、工程学院、医学院、护理学院、理学院、药学院、联合医学科学学院与信息技术学院。

• The humanities colleges are Arts, Business Administration, Educational Sciences, Islamic Studies, Sport Sciences, Social Sciences, Law and Graduate Studies.人文类学院为文学院、工商管理学院、教育科学学院、伊斯兰研究学院、体育科学学院、社会科学学院、法学院与研究生院。

• Alongside the civilian faculties, the university operates a military college through which officers and other ranks of the Jordanian armed forces take degree programmes.除民用各学院外，该校还设有军事学院，约旦武装部队的军官与其他军衔人员在此修读学位课程。

• The QS profile records 728 faculty staff, of whom 92 per cent are domestic and 8 per cent international.QS 资料记载其教职员工 728 人，其中 92% 为本地师资、8% 为国际师资。

• The same profile records 15,387 students, 93.1 per cent of them undergraduate and 6.9 per cent postgraduate, with 1,672 international students.同一资料记载在校生 15387 人，其中本科生占 93.1%、研究生占 6.9%，国际学生 1672 人。

• The university's own account speaks of more than 600 faculty members and more than 20,000 students across its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.校方自己的介绍则提到教职人员逾 600 人、本硕博各层次在校生逾 2 万人。

• The Faculty of Medicine runs research programmes and postgraduate medical education in addition to the M.B.B.S. degree.医学院除内外全科医学士学位外，还开设科研项目与研究生医学教育。

• The Faculty of Graduate Studies supervises master's and doctoral work, including the Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature that the university established.研究生院主管硕士与博士培养，包括该校设立的阿拉伯语言文学博士项目。

• Master's programmes span the sciences, literature and languages, economics and management, geography, electrical engineering with a communications focus, education, law and police studies.硕士项目涵盖理学、文学与语言、经济与管理、地理、以通信为重点的电气工程、教育、法律与警务研究等领域。

• The Faculty of Engineering and the engineering workshops on campus support practical training in metalwork and woodwork, glass, and spare parts for university facilities.工程学院与校园内的工程车间支持金属与木工、玻璃以及校舍备用件等实训内容。

• Agricultural teaching at Rabba covers plant cultivation, opened in 1994, and animal husbandry, added in 1996, with food manufacturing following in 2002.拉巴的农学教学涵盖 1994 年开设的植物栽培与 1996 年增设的动物养殖，食品制造方向则于 2002 年跟进。

• The Faculty of Arts teaches Arabic and literature, English and literature, and European languages, including a French-English combination with plans for Spanish and Italian pairings.文学院教授阿拉伯语与文学、英语与文学以及欧洲语言，其中包括法语-英语组合，并计划增设西班牙语与意大利语组合。

• Other degree-granting units include the faculties of Nursing, Pharmacy, Allied Medical Sciences and Information Technology, which complete the scientific group.其余学位授予单位包括护理、药学、联合医学科学与信息技术等学院，共同构成理科类板块。

• The QS indicators record a faculty-student ratio score of 8.9 and an academic reputation score of 13.1 for the university, with academic reputation carrying the heaviest weight in the QS methodology.QS 指标显示该校的师生比得分为 8.9、学术声誉得分为 13.1，其中学术声誉在 QS 方法体系中权重最重。

• The university's nursing provision carries a specialist QS Stars criterion, an accreditation the rating system applies to a limited number of institutions.该校的护理教育获得 QS 星级的专项评定标准认可，该评级体系仅对少数院校适用此项。

• Dar Mu'tah University Press publishes the Natural and Applied Sciences Series and other scholarly material produced by the Deanship of Academic Research, including the Arabic-language journals of the university.穆塔大学出版社出版自然科学与应用科学学刊，以及学术研究处出品的其他学术材料，其中包括该校的阿拉伯语期刊。

• The Journal of Mu'tah for Research and Studies appears in two series, one covering the humanities and social sciences and one covering the natural and applied sciences.《穆塔研究与研究杂志》分为两个系列，其一涵盖人文与社会科学，其二涵盖自然科学与应用科学。

Campus

• The main campus stands in the town of Mu'tah in Karak Governorate, at P.O. Box 7, postal code 61710, about 135 kilometres south of Amman.主校区位于卡拉克省穆塔镇，通信处为 7 号信箱、邮政编码 61710，距安曼约 135 公里。

• The site lies roughly 12 kilometres from Karak Castle, the Crusader fortress that dominates the governorate's principal town, and close to the battlefield of Mu'tah.校址距卡拉克城堡约 12 公里，这座十字军要塞俯瞰着该省主要城镇，也毗邻穆塔战役旧地。

• The civilian campus occupies about 400 dunums and is laid out around teaching buildings, courtyards and open sports grounds, with shaded walkways linking the teaching blocks.民用校区占地约 400 杜诺，布局围绕教学建筑、庭院与露天运动场地展开，教学区块之间以带遮阴的步道相连。

• Two wings share the university's identity, the military wing with its cadet colleges and the larger civilian wing with the academic faculties that most students attend.军事与民用两翼共同构成该校的标识，前者设有学员学院，后者规模更大并容纳多数学生就读的各学术学院。

• The Faculty of Agriculture sits apart from the main campus at Rabba, roughly 25 kilometres away from the Mu'tah site and about 125 kilometres from Amman.农学院设于主校区之外的拉巴，距穆塔本校区约 25 公里、距安曼约 125 公里。

• The engineering workshops established in 1985 remain part of the campus economy, producing metal and wood furniture, glass and spare parts for university facilities.1985 年设立的工程车间至今仍是校园运作的一部分，为校舍生产金属与木质家具、玻璃及备用件。

• Sports grounds and open courts for football, volleyball, basketball and tennis sit within the campus, administered through the Deanship of Student Affairs.校园内设有足球、排球、篮球与网球等运动场地与露天球场，由学生事务处管理。

• The campus is reached from Amman by the Desert Highway and the older King's Highway, both of which run south through Karak Governorate.从安曼前往校园可经沙漠公路与较老的国王公路，两条道路均向南穿过卡拉克省。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Mutah University is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a joint interval position it has held since the 2022 edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，穆塔大学列于第 1001-1200 位，这一并列区间自 2022 年版起一直保持。

• The university does not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, so no 2027 THE position is recorded for it here.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，故本条目不记载其 2027 年该榜名次。

• It also does not appear in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking.该校同样未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名。

• Mutah belongs to Jordan's group of public universities, alongside Yarmouk University, the Hashemite University, Jordan University of Science and Technology and others.穆塔大学属于约旦公立大学群体，与雅尔穆克大学、哈希姆大学、约旦科技大学等院校并列。

• Nor does it appear in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, the ARWU.该校亦未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject the university is placed in the 551-700 band, its strongest showing on any current QS table.在 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校列于第 551-700 位，是其当前各 QS 榜单中的最好表现。

• Mutah reached the overall five-star category in the QS Stars rating system in 2023, an evaluation covering teaching, employability, facilities and inclusiveness.该校于 2023 年在 QS 星级评定中进入综合五星类别，该评定涵盖教学、就业力、设施与包容性等维度。

• In the QS full-time MBA rankings the university appears at 301 or above globally and in the 20th place band for the Middle East and Africa.在 QS 全日制 MBA 排名中，该校全球列第 301 位及以后，并在中东与非洲地区榜单中列于第 20 位区间。

• Its measurable research output, as recorded by OpenAlex, is 7,682 works with 136,012 citations, some 17.7 citations per recorded work.据 OpenAlex 记载，其可量化科研产出为 7682 篇文献与 136012 次被引，平均每篇文献约 17.7 次被引。

• The QS employer reputation score of 27.2 exceeds the university's academic reputation score of 13.1, and its sustainability score stands at 47.4 on the same table.该校 QS 雇主声誉得分 27.2 高于其学术声誉得分 13.1，其可持续发展得分在同一榜单中为 47.4。

Student life

• The university styles itself as the university of the sword and the pen, a phrase that captures the pairing of military training with academic study and appears in its official communications.该校以「剑与笔的大学」自况，这一表述道出其军事训练与学术学习并存的特点，也见于其官方宣传之中。

• Military-wing students follow a combined programme of academic degrees and officer training, and the campus has graduated about 14,000 military trainees over 42 years.军事校区学生修读学位课程与军官训练相结合的项目，校园在 42 年间已培养约 1.4 万名军事学员。

• The Sword of Honour, awarded to the best military graduate, has been conferred 34 times in the wing's history.授予最优秀军事毕业生的荣誉之剑，在该校区历史上已颁授 34 次。

• Sport is organised through the Faculty of Sport Sciences and the Deanship of Student Affairs, with grounds for football, volleyball, basketball and tennis on campus.体育活动由体育科学学院与学生事务处组织，校园内设有足球、排球、篮球与网球场地。

• Student affairs work, including welfare and activities, sits with the Deanship of Student Affairs, one of the university's two deanships.包括学生福利与活动在内的学生事务，由该校两个处级机构之一的学生事务处负责。

• The university publishes three journals, giving students and staff in the humanities and the sciences outlets for refereed research.该校出版三种学术期刊，为人文与理学领域的师生提供经同行评议的研究发表渠道。

• Scholarships at master's level are offered to students, and the international student body numbers 1,672 across the colleges.该校向学生提供硕士层次的奖学金，各学院国际学生总数为 1672 人。

• The campus draws students from across Jordan and the wider region, and its QS Stars rating for learning experience reflects the teaching environment it offers.该校生源来自约旦各地及更广区域，其 QS 星级中的学习体验评定也反映出它所提供的教学环境。

Notable people

• King Hussein bin Talal issued the Royal Decree of 22 March 1981 that founded the university as a national institution for military and civilian higher education.国王侯赛因·本·塔拉勒颁布 1981 年 3 月 22 日的王室敕令，创办了这所兼顾军事与民用高等教育的国家级学府。

• King Abdullah II provided the impetus for the creation of the Faculty of Medicine in 2001, seeking more doctors and a medical school in southern Jordan, and the faculty has grown into the principal medical school serving that region.国王阿卜杜拉二世推动了 2001 年医学院的创建，希望约旦培养更多医生并在南部设立医学院；该院其后发展为服务约旦南部地区的主要医学院。

• Prof. Salameh Saleh Al-Naimat serves as President of the university and leads its council, the body responsible for strategy and governance.萨拉梅·萨利赫·纳伊马特教授现任该校校长，并领导负责战略与治理的校务委员会。

• Brigadier General Atallah Salem Al-Hammad is Vice President for Military Affairs, the post that links the university to the armed forces.阿塔拉·萨利姆·哈马德准将任负责军事事务的副校长，这一职位维系着该校与武装部队的联系。

• Prof. Mohammad S. Saraireh serves as Vice President for Administrative Affairs and Prof. Mohammad Daoud Al-Majali as Vice President for E-Learning and Quality.穆罕默德·S·萨拉伊雷教授任负责行政事务的副校长，穆罕默德·达伍德·马贾利教授任负责电子学习与质量的副校长。

• Dr. Amin Aqel is Vice President for Scientific Colleges Affairs, overseeing the eight scientific faculties.阿明·阿克尔博士任负责理科学院的副校长，主管八个理科类学院。

• Prof. Yassin Nimir, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, helped co-establish the Faculty of Engineering and other faculties and research centres.机械工程系的亚辛·尼米尔教授曾参与共同创建工程学院以及该校其他学院与研究中心。

• Prof. Mazen Al-Kheetan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, took his Ph.D. at Brunel University London in 2019.土木与环境工程副教授马赞·哈伊坦于 2019 年在伦敦布鲁内尔大学取得博士学位。

• Prof. Kamel M. Al-Hawajreh served as chairperson of the Department of Management in the Faculty of Business Administration.卡迈勒·M·哈瓦杰雷教授曾任工商管理学院管理系主任。

• Muhammad Ali Sweilem Al-Khalayleh, who graduated in law in 1988, was the military wing's first Sword of Honour recipient.1988 年以法律专业毕业的穆罕默德·阿里·斯韦莱姆·哈拉伊莱，是该军事校区首位荣誉之剑获得者。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded among its alumni or faculty, and the highest named honour on its books remains the 2010 outstanding doctoral dissertation award won by a member of its education faculty.其校友或教师中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其名录上分量最重的具名荣誉仍是教育学院一位教师获得的 2010 年优秀博士论文奖。