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Beirut Arab University. TIES Kick-Off Meeting March 1-2, 2010 Alicante, Spain. Lebanon. Lebanon. Lebanon. Thriving banking sector Haute Couture Good fresh food Crazy night life, exciting art scene Ecotourism. Lebanon. Lebanon. The first higher education institution in the Middle East
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Beirut Arab University TIES Kick-Off Meeting March 1-2, 2010 Alicante, Spain
Lebanon • Thriving banking sector • Haute Couture • Good fresh food • Crazy night life, exciting art scene • Ecotourism
Lebanon • The first higher education institution in the Middle East • A very high number of universities per capita • A long history of education and research
Beirut Arab University • Founded in 1960 • Private Institution of Higher Education • Largest HEI in Lebanon • Academically Affiliated with Alexandria University
Student Body • For the year 2009-2010 • Undergraduate: 9000 • Graduate: 1500 • Distributed over the Beirut, Dibbeyeh, and Alexandria campuses • Number of graduates: 82,500, 23,280 are Lebanese • Large number of students from other Arab nationalities
Faculties • Faculty of Arts • Faculty of Law • Faculty of Commerce and Business • Faculty of Architecture • Faculty of Engineering • Faculty of Science • Faculty of Pharmacy • Faculty of Medicine • Faculty of Dentistry • Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty Members • 130 Full time members • Lebanese and Egyptian • 380 Part time members
Mission • Excellence in education, learning, and research whilst addressing the needs of our community and adhering to our academic values of intellectual freedom, integrity and professionalism • Our Target is to be one of the Top 500 Universities
B.A.U. Campuses • Beirut (since 1960) • Dibbeyeh (since 2009) • Tripoli and Bikaa (open in 2010 and 2011) • Alexandria
Member of the following local and International Institutions • Association of Arab Universities (AARU). • International Association of the Universities (IAU). • Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW). • Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). • International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). • Union of the Lebanese Universities.
Association of the Arab Faculties of Dentistry. • Scientific Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in the Arab World. • ARAB-ACRAO. • Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI). • Euro-med Permanent University Forum (EPUF). • International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE).
BAU signed Local and International Agreements with: • Stockholm University- Sweden. • Université Claude Bernard Lyon I – France. • Université de Provence- Aix Marseille I – France. • Lebanese University- Lebanon. • Université Charles –De-Gaulle Lille 3-France. • Université de Savoie – France. • Université de Bourgogne – France. • Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI). • Ecole Supérieure d'Electronique de l‘Ouest (ESEO). • Sultan Qaboos University- Sultanate of Oman.
Collaboration with EMUNI • Euro-Mediterranean University • Based in Slovenia • 141 university members • BAU is the representative of EMUNI in the Southern Mediterranean Region • Partner with EMUNI on a Tempus Project
Beirut Arab University • Recently created an office for International Relations with Universities headed by the Dean of Business School, Dr. Nihale Mostapha • Committing serious efforts to grow and strengthen our international collaborations and activities, supported personally by the president Dr. Amr Adawi • Samira Kaissi: skaisi@bau.edu.lb