Why Al-Quds University?
Al-Quds has been a pioneer in the past 10 years within Palestine in working toward the introduction of educational approaches that will be fully realized through its new partnership with Bard. The University’s strategic goals include the development in its students of a mindset that is creative, cooperative, and multicultural. It is an innovator in educational cooperation both within Palestine and with U.S. and international institutions. It has created imaginative math and science museums and a summer school that draw many students from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. In research, Al-Quds seeks to balance purely scholarly activities with a strong interactive role in society, by means of its practically oriented degree programs including education, medicine, nursing, law, dentistry, social work, computer and IT know-how, and food-processing. Al-Quds students carry out practical work in industry, and the University sponsors research in areas that include public health, social science,
