A Message from
The President of Birzeit University,
Dr. Abdullatif Abuhijleh
B
irzeit University achieved
excellence on numerous
occasions this year, beginning
with its breakthrough into the top
3 percent of universities worldwide
in the 2018 QS World University
Rankings. Such an accomplishment
testifies to the university’s continued
efforts to offer an environment in
which each and every one of its
students demonstrates innovation
and entrepreneurship.
As part of its commitment to its
students, Birzeit University has also
inaugurated the Leadership and
Active Citizenship Program, “Masari.”
The program, the first of its kind in
the region, builds the capacities and
hones the professional skills of all
first-year students at the university.
The program serves to strengthen
students’ roles in their community
and helps them find employment or
internship opportunities during, or
after, their educational journeys at
Birzeit.
Birzeit University continues its
quest to offer students a wide variety
of academic programs that balance
theory and practice. The university
has launched the Contemporary
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Visual Art Bachelor’s Program,
the Design Bachelor’s Program,
the Executive Master’s in Business
Administration, and the Government
and Local Governance Master’s
Program. Additionally, the Faculty
of Arts adopted a new Bachelor’s of
Media Program that keeps students
abreast of scientific and technical
developments in media, and has
separately added Chinese to the seven
other languages it offers, allowing
students a global perspective.
To keep up with its ever-
increasing number of academic
programs, excellent professors, and
intellectually-curious students, Birzeit
University recently inaugurated the
Riad Tawfik Al-Sadik Faculty of Law
and Public Administration Building,
which will serve the needs of 1,600
students in three departments:
law, political science, and public
administration. The Palestine
Techno Park, the university’s start-
up incubator and technological
forefront, has been admitted into the
International Association of Science
Parks and Areas of Innovation.
Arts and culture constitute a
mainstay of the Birzeit University
experience, and this year was no
different. The Birzeit University
Museum hosted numerous of
exhibitions, the Palestine National
Orchestra performed to a standing
ovation in the Naseeb Azeez Shaheen
Auditorium, and Kamal Nasir Hall saw
many student-led plays and shows.
Birzeit University is
growing with each
passing day, but it will
always remain true
to its core values, its
mission, and vision. It
will always remain a
bastion of freedom of
thought, freedom of
expression, innovation,
creativity, and
entrepreneurship.
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