National University of Science and Technology

The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) is a private university in Muscat, Oman, established in 2018 by merging the Caledonian College of Engineering and the Oman Medical College, with a branch in Sohar.阿曼国立科技大学（National University of Science and Technology，简称 NUST）是阿曼马斯喀特的一所私立大学，2018 年由加里东工程学院与阿曼医学院合并而成，并在苏哈尔设有分校。

It teaches engineering, medicine and health sciences, pharmacy and maritime studies through four colleges, and it describes itself as the country's first private university formed from established professional colleges.该校通过四个学院开设工程、医学与健康科学、药学与海事研究等学科，并自称是阿曼第一所由成熟专业学院合并而成的私立大学。

The university occupies the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the 1601-1800 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, and it does not enter the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table or the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1201-1400 区间，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名列于 1601-1800 区间，但未进入 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。

History

• Oman had almost no formal higher education when Sultan Qaboos bin Said came to power in 1970, and the first decades of his reign sent students abroad while building schools at home.1970 年苏丹卡布斯·本·赛义德执政时，阿曼几乎没有正规高等教育，其执政初期一方面派遣学生出国留学，一方面在国内兴办学校。
• Sultan Qaboos University opened in 1986 as the country's only national university, and for the next decade private colleges filled the demand for engineering, business and health training.苏丹卡布斯大学于 1986 年开办，是当时阿曼唯一的国立大学，此后十余年间私立学院承担了工程、商业与卫生培训的需求。
• The Caledonian College of Engineering was founded in 1996 in Al Hail, Muscat, in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, and it became one of the Sultanate's leading private engineering schools.加里东工程学院于 1996 年在马斯喀特阿尔海勒成立，与苏格兰格拉斯哥加里东大学合作办学，后来成为阿曼领先的私立工程学院之一。
• The Oman Medical College opened in 2001 as the first private health sciences college in the country, offering a seven-year doctor of medicine programme built around an American curriculum.阿曼医学院于 2001 年开办，是阿曼第一所私立卫生科学学院，开设以美式课程为基础的七年制医学博士项目。
• A bachelor of pharmacy programme followed in 2003 in academic partnership with West Virginia University, and it laid the ground for the separate College of Pharmacy created at the merger.2003 年，该校与美国西弗吉尼亚大学合作开设药学学士课程，为合并时单独设立的药学院奠定了基础。
• The International Maritime College Oman at Sohar, a maritime and process-industry college serving the port and free zone, later joined the group and gave the university its northern campus.位于苏哈尔的阿曼国际海事学院服务当地港口与自由区，培养海事与流程工业人才，后来加入该校集团，成为其北部校区。
• On 25 September 2017 the Education Council approved the creation of a private university by merging the Caledonian College of Engineering and the Oman Medical College.2017 年 9 月 25 日，阿曼教育委员会批准通过合并加里东工程学院与阿曼医学院组建一所私立大学。
• Ministerial Decision 19/2018 of the Ministry of Higher Education, issued in May 2018, formally established the National University of Science and Technology with legal personality and a seat in Muscat.2018 年 5 月，高等教育大臣以第 19/2018 号决定正式设立阿曼国立科技大学，赋予其法人资格，校址设于马斯喀特。
• The founding decision provided for three faculties, engineering, medicine and health sciences, and pharmacy, which became the academic core of the new university.设立决定规定新大学设工程、医学与健康科学、药学三个学院，这三者构成其学术核心。
• On 1 September 2018 the engineering college began operating as the College of Engineering at the Caledonian campus in Al Hail, keeping its laboratories and its Glasgow Caledonian validation arrangements.2018 年 9 月 1 日，工程学院在阿尔海勒的加里东校区以新校名开始运作，保留原有实验室与格拉斯哥加里东大学的课程认证安排。
• The university was founded by Sheikh Salim Al Fannah Al Araimi, Dr. P. Mohamed Ali and the family of the late Mohamed Rashid Al Fannah Al Araimi, Omani and Indian Ocean business families with long records in education.该校由谢赫萨利姆·阿尔法纳·阿拉伊米、穆罕默德·阿里博士以及已故穆罕默德·拉希德·阿尔法纳·阿拉伊米的家族创办，这些家族在阿曼与印度洋地区素有兴学传统。
• Rather than build a new campus, the founders kept the existing colleges on their own sites and spent the first years harmonising curricula, examination rules and quality procedures across them, a decision that preserved established laboratories but left the university without a single centre.创办者没有另建新校区，而是让原有各学院留在各自校址，用最初几年统一课程、考试规则与质量程序，这一决定保住了成熟的实验室，却使大学长期缺乏单一中心。
• Its first years were spent integrating admissions, quality assurance and foundation studies across campuses that had been run by separate colleges with different calendars and grading systems.建校初期的主要工作是整合招生、质量保证与预科课程，因为此前各校区由不同学院管理，校历与评分制度并不统一。
• The College of Pharmacy became a standalone college in 2018, taking over the pharmacy programme that Oman Medical College had taught since 2003.药学院于 2018 年独立成院，接管阿曼医学院自 2003 年起开办的药学课程。
• When the pandemic reached Oman in 2020 the university moved lectures online, suspended clinical rotations and later reintroduced laboratory teaching in small, distanced groups.2020 年疫情传入阿曼后，该校把理论课转为线上，暂停临床轮转，其后以小规模、保持距离的方式恢复实验教学。
• The launch of Oman Vision 2040 in 2021 gave the university a policy framework that stressed diversification, logistics, health care and private-sector skills, all fields its colleges teach.2021 年启动的「阿曼 2040 愿景」为该校提供了政策框架，强调经济多元化、物流、医疗与私营部门技能，这些正是其各学院的教学领域。
• In March 2023 the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation visited the Sohar branches, the maritime college and the medical and health sciences college, to review their expansion plans.2023 年 3 月，高等教育、研究与创新大臣视察苏哈尔分校的海事学院与医学及健康科学学院，了解其扩建计划。
• The university has since added a College of Advanced Technology and a School of Foundation Studies, widening its intake beyond the three faculties named in the founding decision.此后该校又增设高等技术学院与预科学院，使招生范围超出设立决定所定的三个学院。
• Its maritime college trains deck officers, marine engineers and logistics staff for the port of Sohar, one of the largest industrial ports in the Gulf and a centre of Oman's free-zone manufacturing.其海事学院为苏哈尔港培养甲板驾驶员、轮机员与物流人员，该港是海湾地区最大的工业港之一，也是阿曼自由区制造业的中心。
• The merger belonged to a wave of consolidation in Omani private higher education after 2015, when the ministry encouraged colleges to combine so that they could award degrees in their own name and meet stricter quality standards.这次合并属于 2015 年之后阿曼私立高等教育的整合浪潮，教育部鼓励各学院合并，以便以自身名义授予学位并达到更严格的质量标准。
• The university's growth reflects a wider shift in Omani higher education, in which private colleges consolidated into universities able to award their own degrees and compete for research funding.该校的成长反映阿曼高等教育的整体转变，即私立学院合并为能够自主授予学位并争取研究经费的大学。

Academics

• Four colleges make up the university, covering engineering, medicine and health sciences, pharmacy, and maritime studies, with a foundation programme preparing students for undergraduate entry.该校由工程、医学与健康科学、药学以及海事研究四个学院组成，并设预科项目为学生进入本科阶段做准备。
• The College of Engineering teaches civil, mechanical, electrical and computer engineering, and it enrols about 4,000 students with some 400 academic, administrative and support staff.工程学院开设土木、机械、电气与计算机工程等专业，约有 4,000 名学生以及约 400 名学术、行政与支持人员。
• Engineering teaching follows the Glasgow Caledonian University model, with external validation of programmes and a curriculum that includes a substantial practical and project component.工程教学沿用格拉斯哥加里东大学的模式，课程接受外部认证，并包含相当比重的实践与项目内容。
• The College of Medicine and Health Sciences offers a seven-year doctor of medicine programme and is described by the university as the only private medical and health sciences college in Oman.医学与健康科学学院开设七年制医学博士项目，校方称其为阿曼唯一的私立医学与健康科学学院。
• Its curriculum is built with West Virginia University, and students complete pre-clinical years in Muscat before clinical rotations in Omani hospitals and, for some, abroad.其课程与美国西弗吉尼亚大学共同设计，学生在马斯喀特完成基础医学阶段，随后在阿曼医院进行临床轮转，部分人赴海外实习。
• About seventy per cent of the college's students are Omani nationals, and the remainder come from other Gulf states, South Asia and Africa, a mix that reflects the country's expatriate population.该学院约七成学生为阿曼本国人，其余来自其他海湾国家、南亚与非洲，这一构成反映阿曼的外籍人口结构。
• The College of Pharmacy awards a five-year bachelor of pharmacy degree and trains pharmacists for hospital, community and industrial practice, with laboratory work in pharmaceutics and pharmacognosy.药学院授予五年制药学学士学位，培养面向医院、社区与产业实践的药学人才，实验课程涵盖药剂学与生药学。
• The International Maritime College Oman at Sohar teaches nautical studies, marine engineering, process engineering, and logistics and transport management, using simulators for bridge and engine-room training.苏哈尔的阿曼国际海事学院开设航海、轮机工程、流程工程以及物流与运输管理专业，并使用模拟器进行驾驶台与机舱训练。
• The College of Advanced Technology and the School of Foundation Studies provide shorter technical qualifications and English, mathematics and study-skills preparation for students entering degree programmes.高等技术学院与预科学院提供较短的技术资格课程，并为进入学位项目的学生补习英语、数学与学习技巧。
• Assessment combines coursework, laboratory reports, presentations and final examinations, and every engineering student completes a capstone design project in the final year before graduating.成绩评定结合课程作业、实验报告、口头报告与期末考试，每位工程学生在毕业前都要完成一项毕业设计专题。
• Teaching is in English across the professional colleges, with Arabic used in some foundation and cultural courses, and admission requires secondary school certificates and placement tests.各专业学院以英语授课，部分预科与文化课程使用阿拉伯语，入学须持有中学毕业证书并参加分级测试。
• Academic partnerships with Glasgow Caledonian University, West Virginia University and the University of South Carolina give students access to validated degrees and to exchange and articulation arrangements.该校与格拉斯哥加里东大学、西弗吉尼亚大学及南卡罗来纳大学的学术合作，为学生提供认证学位以及交换与衔接安排。
• The university runs bridging and credit-transfer arrangements for diploma holders from Omani technical colleges, allowing them to enter the second or third year of engineering degrees.该校为阿曼技术学院的文凭持有者提供衔接与学分转移安排，使其可进入工程学位的高年级学习。
• Research capacity is modest and concentrated in applied fields such as water treatment, materials, medical imaging and maritime operations, often in cooperation with industry partners.该校研究能力有限，集中于水处理、材料、医学影像与海事营运等应用领域，且多与产业伙伴合作。
• Faculty members supervise final-year projects that address Omani problems, from desalination plant efficiency to port congestion and the management of chronic disease.教师指导的毕业专题多针对阿曼本地问题，从海水淡化厂效率到港口拥堵与慢性病管理。
• Because most applicants come from government schools where science is taught in Arabic, the foundation year concentrates on English for academic purposes, mathematics and information technology before degree-level study begins.由于多数申请者来自以阿拉伯语教授理科的公立学校，预科一年集中强化学术英语、数学与信息技术，之后才进入学位阶段的学习。
• The university library serves all campuses with engineering and medical collections, and it subscribes to international databases that students can reach from home.校图书馆为各校区提供工程与医学馆藏，并订阅可供学生在家访问的国际数据库。
• Continuing education and professional courses are offered to companies in the Sohar free zone and to health workers seeking to update their licences.该校为苏哈尔自由区的企业以及需要更新执照的卫生工作者提供继续教育与专业课程。
• The medical and pharmacy colleges prepare students for Oman's professional licensing examinations, and their graduates are eligible to register with the Ministry of Health.医学与药学院帮助学生准备阿曼的专业执照考试，其毕业生有资格在卫生部注册执业。

Campus

• The main campus stands in Al Hail, Muscat, on a site of about 45,309 square metres with some 29,489 square metres of buildings, close to the coast road west of the city centre.主校区位于马斯喀特阿尔海勒，占地约 45,309 平方米，建筑面积约 29,489 平方米，靠近市中心以西的海岸公路。
• Engineering laboratories, workshops and computer halls occupy the Caledonian campus, which was built up over two decades before the merger and retains its original name.工程实验室、工场与计算机房集中在加里东校区，该校区在合并前已建设二十余年，至今沿用原有名称。
• The Sohar branch serves the northern governorates with maritime simulators, process engineering units and a medical and health sciences site near the port and free zone.苏哈尔分校服务北部各省，配备海事模拟器、流程工程装置以及靠近港口与自由区的医学与健康科学教学点。
• Classrooms are arranged around courtyards that shade walkways, a design suited to Omani summers, and the campus includes prayer rooms, a cafeteria and student lounge areas.教室围绕可遮荫的庭院布置，这一设计适应阿曼炎热的夏季，校内并设礼拜室、餐厅与学生休息区。
• Libraries, computer laboratories and study rooms are open into the evening, and the medical college maintains anatomy and clinical skills laboratories for its students.图书馆、计算机实验室与自习室开放至傍晚，医学院则设有解剖学与临床技能实验室供学生使用。
• Sports facilities include football pitches, basketball courts and a gymnasium, and the university enters teams in Omani private-university tournaments.体育设施包括足球场、篮球场与体育馆，校队参加阿曼私立大学之间的锦标赛。
• The campus is reached by car from most of Muscat, and the university runs bus services for students commuting from Seeb, Bawshar and the city centre.校区可驾车从马斯喀特大部分地区抵达，校方并为来自锡卜、包沙尔与市中心的通勤学生提供班车。
• The Al Hail site sits beside a cluster of schools and colleges, and its buildings are arranged so that engineering workshops and machine halls can operate without disturbing lecture rooms.阿尔海勒校址毗邻一片学校与学院聚集区，其建筑布局使工程工场与机械车间能够运转而不打扰讲课教室。
• Muscat International Airport and the Al Mouj waterfront lie a short drive away, and the surrounding district mixes residential villas, shops and light industry.马斯喀特国际机场与阿尔穆吉海滨距校区只有短暂车程，周边街区混合了住宅别墅、商铺与轻工业。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 1201-1400 band, a strong position for an institution created only in 2018.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 1201-1400 区间，对一所 2018 年才成立的大学而言已属不易。
• The 2027 Times Higher Education ranking places it in the 1601-1800 band, while the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table and the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list do not include it.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把它列在 1601-1800 区间，而 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜均未收录该校。
• OpenAlex indexes about 1,830 works by its researchers and roughly 35,675 citations, a small output consistent with a teaching-led private university.OpenAlex 收录该校研究人员约 1,830 项成果，累计被引约 35,675 次，产出规模不大，与一所以教学为主、建校时间不长的私立大学相符，其论文多集中在应用工程与临床医学。
• The university's reputation in Oman rests on its professional colleges, especially engineering and medicine, which trained graduates long before the university itself existed.该校在阿曼的声誉建立在工程与医学等专业学院之上，这些学院在大学成立之前就已培养了大批毕业生。
• More than 4,300 graduates from 33 countries have passed through its programmes, according to the university, giving it an unusually international alumni base for its age.据校方统计，已有来自 33 个国家的 4,300 多名毕业生从该校各项目毕业，对这样年轻的大学而言校友基础相当国际化。
• Its medical college is the only private provider of medical and health sciences education in the country, which gives it a distinctive position in Oman's health workforce.其医学院是阿曼唯一的私立医学与健康科学教育机构，这使它在国家卫生人才培养中占有独特位置。
• The maritime college's links with the port of Sohar and the free zone tie the university to Oman's logistics strategy, one of the diversification pillars of Vision 2040.海事学院与苏哈尔港及自由区的联系，把该校与阿曼的物流战略相连，而物流是「2040 愿景」多元化支柱之一。
• Validation by Glasgow Caledonian University and partnerships with American universities give its degrees external recognition that purely local private colleges often lack.格拉斯哥加里东大学的课程认证以及与美方大学的合作，使其学位获得本地纯私立学院往往缺乏的外部认可。
• Employers in Oman's energy, construction, logistics and health sectors recruit its graduates, and the university's industry advisory boards include representatives of those sectors.阿曼能源、建筑、物流与卫生部门的雇主聘用该校毕业生，其行业顾问委员会也有这些部门的代表。
• Its research profile remains thin, and the university's strategy emphasises teaching quality, accreditation and applied projects rather than ranking performance.该校研究实力仍然薄弱，其发展战略强调教学质量、认证与应用型项目，而非排名表现。

Student life

• Students come mainly from Oman and from South Asian and Arab expatriate families, and the university's social calendar mixes Omani national day events with South Asian cultural festivals.学生主要来自阿曼本地以及南亚与阿拉伯外籍家庭，校园活动把阿曼国庆活动与南亚文化节庆结合在一起。
• Student councils in each college organise orientation, sports tournaments and charity drives, and they represent student concerns to the university administration.各学院的学生会组织迎新、体育赛事与慈善募捐，并向校方反映学生的诉求。
• Clubs cover engineering design, robotics, medical awareness campaigns, photography, debating and volunteer work in hospitals and schools.社团涵盖工程设计、机器人、医学宣导、摄影、辩论以及在医院与学校开展的志愿服务。
• The university marks Oman's National Day in November with exhibitions and traditional music, and it celebrates the founding of the university each year with an open day for school pupils.该校在 11 月以展览与传统音乐庆祝阿曼国庆日，并在每年校庆时举办面向中学生的开放日。
• Because most students live at home, campus life is built around the academic day rather than residential living, with long breaks between laboratories and lectures.由于多数学生住在家中，校园生活围绕白天的课程展开而非住宿生活，实验室与课堂之间常有较长的空档。
• The cafeteria and shaded courtyards serve as meeting places, and students often work in project groups there between classes.餐厅与有遮荫的庭院是学生聚会的场所，课间常可见到项目小组在此讨论。
• Clinical students spend much of their later years in hospitals, where their schedules follow ward rounds rather than the campus timetable.医学专业的高年级学生大部分时间在医院度过，其作息跟随病房查房而非校园课表。
• The academic calendar follows the Omani school year, and timetables are shortened during Ramadan, when laboratories and clinical placements run on reduced hours and evening study groups become the norm.校历与阿曼学年同步，斋月期间课表缩短，实验室与临床实习减少时段，晚间学习小组则成为常态。
• Graduation ceremonies bring families from across Oman and abroad, and the university's alumni association keeps graduates in touch through professional networks in Muscat and Sohar.毕业典礼吸引来自阿曼各地与海外的家庭参加，校友会则通过马斯喀特与苏哈尔的职业网络维系毕业生联系。

Notable people

• Dr. P. Mohamed Ali, the Indian-born Omani entrepreneur who founded Galfar Engineering, was a driving founder of the university and chairs its board of directors.穆罕默德·阿里博士是出生于印度的阿曼企业家、加尔法工程公司的创办人，也是该校的主要创办人之一，并担任董事会主席。
• Sheikh Salim Al Fannah Al Araimi, an Omani businessman, was among the founders who brought the engineering and medical colleges together into a single university.谢赫萨利姆·阿尔法纳·阿拉伊米是阿曼商人，也是把工程学院与医学院合并为一所大学的创办人之一。
• The family of the late Mohamed Rashid Al Fannah Al Araimi endowed the university's founding, and its name remains associated with the institution's philanthropic base.已故穆罕默德·拉希德·阿尔法纳·阿拉伊米的家族为该校的创立提供资助，其名字至今与学校的公益基础联系在一起。
• Dr. Ali bin Saud Al Bimani, a geologist by training, served as vice chancellor and led the university through its early integration and accreditation work.阿里·本·沙特·比马尼博士出身地质学，曾任该校副校长，主导了建校初期的整合与认证工作。
• Engineering graduates work for Omani construction, energy and manufacturing companies, and some have joined the contractor firms building the country's logistics infrastructure.工程毕业生任职于阿曼建筑、能源与制造企业，部分人加入承建国家物流基础设施的承包公司。
• Medical and nursing graduates staff hospitals in Muscat and the northern governorates, and a number have pursued postgraduate training in the United States and Britain.医学与护理毕业生服务于马斯喀特与北部各省的医院，其中不少人前往美国与英国接受研究生培训。
• Pharmacy graduates work in hospital dispensaries, community pharmacies and the growing pharmaceutical distribution sector that serves Oman's universal health system.药学毕业生在医院药房、社区药店以及服务阿曼全民医疗体系的药品流通行业工作。
• Maritime graduates from the Sohar college serve as deck and engine officers on tankers and container ships, and others work in port operations and freight forwarding.苏哈尔海事学院的毕业生在油轮与集装箱船上担任甲板与轮机船员，也有人在港口营运与货运代理领域工作。
• Alumni of the foundation programme often progress into degree study after a year of English and mathematics, a route that widens access for students from smaller Omani towns.预科项目的校友常在一年英语与数学训练后升入学位课程，这条路径为来自阿曼小城镇的学生扩大了入学机会。