Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Princess Sumaya University for Technology, known as PSUT and in Chinese as 公主科技大学, is a private non-profit university in Amman, Jordan, owned by the Royal Scientific Society, established in 1991 and named after Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, who has chaired its board of trustees since it opened.公主科技大学英文缩写 PSUT，是约旦安曼一所由皇家科学学会持有的私立非营利大学，1991 年创立，以约旦公主苏玛雅·宾特·哈桑之名命名，她自创校起出任校董会主席。

The university concentrates on information technology, communications and electronics and is described in its own catalogue as the academic arm of the Royal Scientific Society, the foremost applied research centre in Jordan, whose work spans more than 38 internationally and locally accredited laboratories.大学以资讯科技、通信与电子为主攻方向，自我定位为其母公司皇家科学学会——约旦首屈一指的应用研究中心——的学术分支，学会辖下有 38 个以上通过国际与本地认证的实验室。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 951-1000 band, and the QS profile of its Amman campus records 2,623 students, 190 academic staff and 582 international students.在 QS 世界大学排名 2027 中，该校位列第 951-1000 位区间，QS 院校页面就其安曼校区记录学生 2,623 人、教研人员 190 人、国际学生 582 人。

History

• The parent institution, the Royal Scientific Society, was founded by royal decree in 1970 out of the commitment of King Hussein and his brother Prince Hassan bin Talal to equitable development, and it later described itself as a regional knowledge leader.其母体机构皇家科学学会于 1970 年由皇家法令创立，源于侯赛因国王与其弟哈桑·本·塔拉勒亲王推动均衡发展的承诺，学会此后自称为区域知识引领者。

• In 1991, in realization of the society's role in transferring knowledge into the academic field, Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, president of the society, oversaw the inception and founding of the university that bears her name.1991 年，为落实皇家科学学会在知识转移方面的学术职能，时任学会会长的苏玛雅公主创办了这所以她名字命名的大学。

• It opened that year as Princess Sumaya University College for Technology and awarded a single bachelor's degree, in computer science, the society having founded it to serve as its own academic arm.该校当年以「苏玛雅公主理工大学」之名成立，只授一个学士学位，即计算机科学，学会设立它的目的就是把大学办成自身的学术分支。

• In 1992 the university was officially opened by His Majesty the late King Hussein bin Talal, giving the new college royal endorsement in its second year of teaching.1992 年，已故国王侯赛因·本·塔拉勒正式为大学揭幕，使其开学仅两年即获王室背书。

• Four years later, in 1995, the university celebrated the graduation of its first cohort, a class of 72 students.四年后的 1995 年，大学庆祝首届毕业生离校，这一届共 72 人。

• The first expansion beyond computing came in 1994, when the Electronics Engineering Department was founded, the oldest department of what is now the King Abdullah II School for Electrical Engineering.最早越出计算机领域的扩张发生在 1994 年，电子工程系创立，它如今是阿卜杜拉二世电气工程学院历史最久的学系。

• A second engineering department followed in 2002 with the founding of Computer Engineering, adding hardware design to a curriculum that had been built on software and electronics.2002 年计算机工程系成立，成为该工科学院第二个学系，在原有的软件与电子课程之外加入硬件设计。

• Work towards launching the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship started in October 2004, part of an expansion plan that named the centre after an Arab figure known for advancing entrepreneurship.2004 年 10 月，拉尼王后创业中心开始筹建，这是校方扩张计划的一部分，中心以一位长期推动创业事业的阿拉伯女性命名。

• The Communication Engineering Department was founded in 2005, completing the trio of electronics, computing and communications that the university names as its specialism.通信工程系于 2005 年创立，与电子、计算机合为该校反复强调的三大专门方向。

• In the academic year 2005-2006 the King Hussein School for Information Technology was established as the university's first undergraduate school, grouping departments that had previously reported directly to the presidency.2005-2006 学年，侯赛因国王信息技术学院成立，是该校第一个本科学院，把原先直属于校方的各学系归入学院建制。

• The same year saw the creation of the Computer Graphics and Animation department, whose degree the university lists among those then unavailable at any other Jordanian university.同一年设立计算机图形与动画学系，其学位被列入校方所称当时约旦其他大学尚未开设的专业之列。

• Graduate teaching was reorganised in 2007 with the establishment of the King Abdullah I School of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, opened with fourteen master's and doctoral programmes.2007 年研究生教育改组，阿卜杜拉一世研究生科学与研究学院成立，开设硕士与博士课程共 14 个。

• Business teaching was placed on a technological footing in 2008 when the King Talal School of Business Technology was established with departments of management information systems and of business administration.2008 年塔拉勒国王商业技术学院成立，初设管理信息系统系与工商管理系，把商科教育置于技术底座之上。

• Software Engineering was founded as a department in 2011, giving the computing school a third degree route alongside computer science and graphics.软件工程系于 2011 年设立，使计算机学院在计算机科学、图形动画之外多出第三条学位路径。

• Also in 2011 the Energy and Electrical Power Engineering Department was opened, another specialisation the university describes as then unique in Jordan.同样在 2011 年设立能源与电力工程系，校方称这一专业在当时的约旦亦属首创。

• The business school added an Accounting Department in 2011 and a Digital Marketing Department in 2012, the latter feeding its degree in e-marketing and social media.商学院于 2011 年增设会计系，2012 年再设数字营销系，后者支撑其电子营销与社交媒体学位。

• In 2014 the Networks and Information Security Engineering Department was founded, the fifth department of the electrical engineering school and the source of its security degrees.2014 年网络与信息安全工程系成立，成为电气工程学院第五个学系，也是其安全类学位的来源。

• The business school's fourth department, Business Information Technology, was established in 2015, and the school has said it plans further bachelor's majors in finance and other disciplines.商学院第四个学系商业信息技术于 2015 年设立，该学院并表示拟在金融及其他领域增设本科主修。

• Data Science and Artificial Intelligence was added as a department of the computing school, making four departments there and producing the first Jordanian bachelor's degree in that pairing, on the university's account.数据科学与人工智能成为计算机学院第四个学系，按校方说法，这一组合的本科学位在约旦属首次开设。

• Since its founding in 1991 the university says that more than 1,200 students have graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science and in data science and artificial intelligence.校方称自 1991 年建校以来，已有 1,200 余名学生获计算机科学以及数据科学与人工智能学士学位毕业。

Academics

• The university states its mission as equipping students for careers in information and communications technology, computer engineering, communication engineering, electronics and business, and calls itself student-centred, research-driven and service-oriented.大学把使命表述为让学生具备从事资讯科技、计算机工程、通信工程、电子工程与商科职业的能力，并自称以学生为中心、以研究为驱动、以服务为导向。

• Three schools carry undergraduate teaching, the King Hussein School of Computing Sciences, the King Abdullah II School of Engineering and the King Talal School of Business Technology, offering fourteen bachelor's degrees with a combined enrolment the university puts at about 3,500 students.本科教学由三个学院承担，即侯赛因国王计算科学学院、阿卜杜拉二世工程学院与塔拉勒国王商业技术学院，共开 14 个本科专业，校方称三院注册学生合计约 3,500 人。

• The King Hussein School of Computing Sciences runs four departments, computer science founded in 1991, computer graphics and animation in 2006, software engineering in 2011 and data science and artificial intelligence, and confers bachelor's degrees in each.侯赛因国王计算科学学院设四个学系，计算机科学始于 1991 年，计算机图形与动画始于 2006 年，软件工程始于 2011 年，另有数据科学与人工智能，各系均授学士学位。

• At graduate level the same school offers master's degrees in computer science and in the security of information systems and digital crimes, the latter matched by a master's in information technology security and digital criminology listed by the university.该学院同时开设计算机科学硕士与信息系统安全及数字犯罪硕士，后者与校方所列的信息科技安全与数字犯罪学硕士课程相呼应。

• The King Abdullah II School for Electrical Engineering consists of five departments, electronics founded in 1994, computer engineering in 2002, communications in 2005, energy and electrical power in 2011 and networks and information security in 2014, with 850 students reported in its undergraduate programmes.阿卜杜拉二世电气工程学院辖五个学系，电子工程始于 1994 年，计算机工程始于 2002 年，通信工程始于 2005 年，能源与电力工程始于 2011 年，网络与信息安全工程始于 2014 年，本科在读人数为 850 人。

• The King Talal School of Business Technology, established in 2008, groups management information systems and business administration of the same year, accounting of 2011, digital marketing of 2012 and business information technology of 2015.塔拉勒国王商业技术学院成立于 2008 年，下设同年起办的管理信息系统系与工商管理系，以及 2011 年的会计系、2012 年的数字营销系与 2015 年的商业信息技术系。

• The King Abdullah I School of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, opened in 2007, lists fourteen programmes running from a doctorate of philosophy in computer science to master's degrees in engineering management and executive business administration.阿卜杜拉一世研究生科学与研究学院于 2007 年开办，列有 14 个课程，从计算机科学哲学博士到工程管理硕士与高级工商管理硕士皆可授位。

• Graduate offerings include data science, business analysis, entrepreneurship, cyber security, health information technology, and financial technology and accounting analytics, subjects the university places first among its Jordanian peers.研究生课程包括数据科学、商业分析、创业学、网络安全、健康信息技术、金融科技与会计分析等，校方称这些方向在约旦同类高校中首开。

• A master's in supply chain management and logistics technology and a master's in e-marketing and social media complete the taught portfolio, alongside an executive master's in business administration recorded as a recent addition.供应链管理与物流技术硕士、电子营销与社交媒体硕士构成授课型课程的另一翼，另有校方标注为新设的高级工商管理硕士。

• Three master's degrees are taught with foreign partners, international business administration with Lancaster University in Britain, engineering management with the University of Arizona in the United States, and enterprise systems engineering with the German Jordanian University in Amman.三门硕士课程与境外伙伴合办，国际工商管理由该校与英国兰开斯特大学合作，工程管理与美国亚利桑那大学合作，企业系统工程则与安曼的德约大学合作。

• Undergraduate programmes the university lists as unavailable elsewhere in Jordan include data science and artificial intelligence, computer graphics and animation, e-marketing and social media, electrical power and energy engineering, and networks and information security engineering.校方列为约旦他校未曾开设的本科专业包括数据科学与人工智能、计算机图形与动画、电子营销与社交媒体、电力与能源工程、网络与信息安全工程。

• The Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center runs a deliberate programme of spreading quality culture, each plan built from activities that introduce academic and administrative staff to quality concepts and the skills to apply them.质量保证与认证中心专门推进质量文化建设，每项计划都由一系列活动组成，向教学与行政人员介绍质量理念并培训其应用技能。

• Research is tied to the parent society, whose strategic plan aims at a national innovation ecosystem covering higher education, scientific research, technology, science advice to government, innovation and entrepreneurship.科研与母体皇家科学学会一体规划，学会的战略目标指向涵盖高等教育、科学研究、技术、政府科技咨询、创新与创业的全国性创新生态体系。

• The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, begun in October 2004, is the university's standing vehicle for start-up training and small-business advice in Jordan.拉尼王后创业中心筹设于 2004 年 10 月，是该校长期承担创业培训与小微企业咨询的机构。

• Governance rests on three bodies named in the university's own structure, a board of trustees, the presidency and a deans' council, the first of which has been led by the founding princess.校方所列治理机构有三，校董会、校长室与院长委员会，其中校董会自创校起由苏玛雅公主主持。

• Academic staffing is compact: the QS profile counts 190 members of academic staff against 2,623 students, a ratio close to one teacher for every fourteen students.师资规模精简，QS 院校页面记录教研人员 190 人、学生 2,623 人，师生比接近一比十四。

• The computing school's degree routes and the graduate school's doctoral programme in computer science together give the university a full ladder from bachelor's to doctorate in its core subject.计算科学学院的各条学位路径与研究生院的计算机科学博士课程，使该校在核心学科上具备从学士到博士的完整梯队。

• Business teaching is oriented to technology throughout, with degrees in business information technology, management information systems and business analysis rather than in general commerce.商科教学整体面向技术，学位设于商业信息技术、管理信息系统与商业分析等方向，而非常规商学。

• Engineering degrees are concentrated in electronic, communication, power and network systems, the university running no civil, mechanical or chemical department at all.工程类学位集中于电子、通信、电力与网络系统，该校完全不设土木、机械或化工学系。

Campus

• The university lies in the Jubaiha district of Amman, its postal address being P.O. Box 1438, and its QS listing places the campus inside El Hassan Science City in the Jordanian capital.校园位于安曼的朱拜哈区，通讯地址为邮政信箱 1438 号，QS 院校页面把该校园标为哈桑科学城的一部分。

• Being the academic arm of the Royal Scientific Society gives students access to an institution whose work the society describes as touching the lives of all Jordanians and as powering sustainable economic development.大学作为皇家科学学会的学术分支，学生可依托一个自陈其工作关乎全体约旦人生活、并为可持续发展提供动力的机构。

• The society reports more than 38 internationally and locally accredited laboratories on its site, the research infrastructure that the university shares as its parent body's academic arm.学会称其园区内已有 38 个以上通过国际与本地认证的实验室，这构成大学作为其学术分支可共享的科研底座。

• Four academic schools occupy the campus, the three undergraduate schools of computing, engineering and business technology and the King Abdullah I School of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research founded in 2007.校园内坐落四个学院，即计算科学、工程、商业技术三个本科学院，以及 2007 年成立的阿卜杜拉一世研究生科学与研究学院。

• The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship was added to the campus as part of an expansion plan agreed in October 2004, extending the university beyond teaching into start-up support.拉尼王后创业中心作为 2004 年 10 月商定的扩张计划之一落地校园，使大学的功能从教学延伸到创业扶持。

• A dedicated Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center houses the planning of quality-culture activities for both academic and administrative work.质量保证与认证中心为独立机构，负责统筹教学与行政两条线上的质量文化活动策划。

• The campus takes 582 of its 2,623 students from outside Jordan on the QS count, a share close to one in five, in a university owned by a national research society rather than a private proprietor.按 QS 口径，2,623 名学生中有 582 人来自约旦境外，比例接近五分之一，而这所大学的持有者是国家级研究学会而非私人东主。

• The university's founding name, Princess Sumaya University College for Technology, survives in its abbreviation PSUT, and the campus has grown from the single computer science department of 1991 to three undergraduate schools and a graduate school with fourteen bachelor's programmes.创校校名「苏玛雅公主理工大学」的缩写沿用为 PSUT，校园规模已由 1991 年唯一的计算机科学系，扩展为三个本科学院加一个研究生学院、共 14 个本科专业的格局。

Reputation

• Princess Sumaya University for Technology stands in the 951-1000 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the cycle on which this entry is drawn.在本文依据的 QS 世界大学排名 2027 中，公主科技大学位列第 951-1000 位区间。

• Its QS profile shows the university in the 901-950 band of the world ranking in the cycles immediately before, together with a subject band of 351-400 and a QS Sustainability Ranking band of 1401-1500.其 QS 院校页面显示，在此前的排名周期中该校位列世界排名 901-950 位区间，另有 351-400 的学科区间与 1401-1500 的 QS 可持续发展排名区间。

• At subject level the QS tables of 2024 reported the university around 351st in the information systems field, its strongest single disciplinary showing, while computer science, information systems and software were each listed near 451 in earlier subject cycles.学科维度上，2024 年 QS 学科榜单口径记录该校信息系统约列第 351 位，为其最强单项，更早的周期中计算机科学、信息系统与软件工程则各列 451 位左右。

• The university is not listed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and it is not carried in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities ranking.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名。

• It is likewise not included in the 2026 Soft Science Academic Ranking of World Universities, so of the four widely used world tables it appears only in the QS one.该校亦未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，因此在四张常被引用的世界榜单中，它只出现在 QS 榜上。

• Indexed output gives the scale of its research: OpenAlex attributes 3,404 scholarly works to the university and counts 76,365 citations to those works.可计量的科研产出方面，OpenAlex 收录该校学术成果 3,404 项，被引 76,365 次。

• On 2 June 2026 the university announced that its King Talal School of Business Technology had received EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development, the most prominent external quality mark recorded for the institution.2026 年 6 月 2 日校方宣布，塔拉勒国王商业技术学院获欧洲管理发展基金会的 EQUIS 认证，这是该校有记录的分量最重的外部质量认可。

• The university's own recognition list rests on programmes described as unavailable elsewhere in Jordan, on joint degrees with Lancaster University, the University of Arizona and the German Jordanian University, and on the laboratories of its parent society.该校的声誉支点在于多项学位在约旦首设、与兰开斯特大学、亚利桑那大学、德约大学合办的学位，以及母体学会的实验室资源。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded among its staff or alumni, the highest state honour publicly attached to the university being the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction conferred on an alumnus in May 2026.其教职与校友中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，与该校公开相关的最高国家荣誉是 2026 年 5 月颁予一位校友的阿卜杜拉二世杰出勋章二等。

Student life

• The student affairs mandate is written down as providing all services and facilities needed by students throughout their period of study, a duty carried for the 2,623 students on the QS count.学生事务的职责被明文规定为提供学生在学期间所需的一切服务与设施，此项工作面向 QS 口径下的 2,623 名学生。

• The same charter requires care, advice and social and behavioural guidance, with help in solving problems that students meet during their studies.同一章程要求给予学生关怀、建议与社会行为指导，并协助其解决就学期间遇到的问题。

• Extracurricular life is organised around cultural, arts, recreational and sports activity, the university undertaking to hone student character and ease integration into the student body.课外活动按文化、艺术、休闲与体育四条线组织，校方承诺以此磨炼学生性格并帮助其融入群体。

• Voluntary work inside and outside the campus is used deliberately to develop initiative, and talented students are sponsored in cultural, arts, social and sports activities with teams formed around them.校内外志愿服务被有意用作培养主动性的途径，在文化、艺术、社会与体育上有天赋的学生可获资助，并按项目组建队伍。

• Leadership and social responsibility are developed through student clubs and student councils, bodies that sit beneath the deans' council in the university's own governance structure.学生会与学生社团承担培养学生领导力与社会责任的职能，在校方治理结构中位于院长委员会之下。

• The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, running since October 2004, supplies the start-up training and competition programme around which much of the co-curricular activity is organised.自 2004 年 10 月运作的拉尼王后创业中心提供创业培训与竞赛，是课外活动的主要组织者之一。

• The implementation of student-related regulations is monitored as a named function of the administration, and the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center folds student feedback into its quality-culture plans.校方把监督学生相关规章的执行列为既定职能，质量保证与认证中心亦将学生反馈纳入其质量文化计划。

Notable people

• Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, born in Amman on 14 May 1971 as the second daughter of Prince Hassan bin Talal and Princess Sarvath al-Hassan, founded the university in 1991 and has chaired its board of trustees ever since.苏玛雅·宾特·哈桑公主 1971 年 5 月 14 日生于安曼，是哈桑·本·塔拉勒亲王与萨尔瓦思王妃的次女，1991 年创办该校并一直出任校董会主席。

• She is also president of the Royal Scientific Society, holds a degree in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London, and is credited with the aim of making the university a regional hub for information technology research and development.她同时担任皇家科学学会会长，毕业于伦敦大学考陶尔德艺术学院获艺术史学位，其办学目标被表述为把大学建成区域资讯科技研发枢纽。

• King Hussein bin Talal founded the Royal Scientific Society by royal decree in 1970 and officially opened the university in 1992, two acts that made possible the institution as it exists today.侯赛因·本·塔拉勒国王 1970 年以皇家法令创立皇家科学学会，并于 1992 年正式为大学揭幕，这两步奠定了今日该校的基础。

• Prince Hassan bin Talal, brother of King Hussein and father of the founding princess, is named alongside the late king as the shared source of the society's vision of science serving humanity and supporting peace.哈桑·本·塔拉勒亲王是侯赛因国王之弟、创办人苏玛雅公主之父，与已故国王并列为学会「以科学服务人类、支持和平」愿景的共同提出者。

• King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, cousin of the princess, lends his name to the King Abdullah II School for Electrical Engineering and, through his office, to the order of distinction awarded to a graduate in May 2026.阿卜杜拉二世·本·侯赛因国王是苏玛雅公主的堂兄，阿卜杜拉二世电气工程学院以其名命名，2026 年 5 月颁予一位毕业生的杰出勋章亦出自其王室封号体系。

• Queen Rania al-Abdullah is the patron for whom the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, launched from October 2004, was named under the university's plan to honour prominent Arab figures in development work.拉尼娅·阿卜杜拉王后是 2004 年 10 月起筹建的拉尼王后创业中心的命名对象，校方称命名计划意在致敬推动发展的杰出阿拉伯人物。

• Two further Hashemite names are carried by schools of the university, the King Talal School of Business Technology opened in 2008 and the King Abdullah I School of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research opened in 2007.校内另有两所以哈希姆王室先王命名的学院，2008 年成立的塔拉勒国王商业技术学院与 2007 年成立的阿卜杜拉一世研究生科学与研究学院。

• Amjad Masad, an alumnus of the computer science programme and the co-founder of the Replit development platform, received the King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein Order for Distinction, second class, announced to the university family on 31 May 2026.计算机科学专业校友阿姆贾德·马萨德是编程平台 Replit 的联合创始人，获授阿卜杜拉二世杰出勋章二等，校方于 2026 年 5 月 31 日向师生通报。

• The university's English entry records no other individual alumni by name, its notable-people coverage resting on the founding princess, the Hashemite namesakes and the graduate honoured in 2026.该校英文条目未具名记载其他校友，名人部分只及创办人苏玛雅公主、多位哈希姆王室命名对象与 2026 年受勋的毕业生。