Recent steps taken by Philadelphia University to restructuring the IT education has been widely welcomed. In order to enhance the thrust in this direction further, the need for introducing graduate and research programmes have been overstressed. As an effort to strengthen the teaching and research of Computer Science and Information & Communication Technologies, the Master level degree programme in Computer Science is proposed in the frontier and emerging areas of IT.
The proposed areas of specialization is expected to meet the growing manpower needs of IT specialist in the Arab Regions in particular in addition to meet the needs of IT specialists forecasted by the Jordan Government to boost IT export in the coming years.
The Computer Science Department has started the Master programme in September 2005. The programme has been accredited by the Jordanian Higher Education Accreditation Council (JHEAC) in August 2006.
The administrative responsibilities of the M.Sc. programmes at the University level are the task of the Deanship of Scientific Research and Postgraduate Studies. The Departments that offer the programmes are responsible for the actual implementation of the programmes through their respective faculties.
