Admission and Registration Affairs
The work of the Admission and Registration Unit is grounded in the College's mission and objectives, and in respect for the student, who is regarded as the most important element in the College's range of activities. Accordingly, all staff of the Admission and Registration Unit must remove obstacles facing students and refer them to academic advisors to acquaint them with the College's regulations and rules of study, so that they can be registered as quickly as possible and by sound procedures.
At the beginning of the registration period, the Admission and Registration Unit, in cooperation with the Student Affairs Unit, organizes orientation activities for newly admitted students who wish to pursue their studies at the College. These activities present the College's programs, facilities and places of study, and explain the registration steps and academic advising.
The Board of Trustees sets the College's admission policies on the basis of recommendations from the College Council, and issues annual decisions specifying the size and profile of the admitted student body. The Admission and Registration Unit implements these policies and decisions in coordination with the academic departments and faculty, with respect to academic advising policies, academic load, study plans and examination results.
The Admission and Registration Unit is specifically responsible for the following tasks:
1- Implementing the approved admission and registration policies, organizing announcements for these policies and for student recruitment, contributing to the development of the College guide in coordination with the parties concerned, and coordinating the university calendar through the deliberations of the College Council.
2- Receiving applications for admission to the College within the specified deadlines and verifying their compliance with the requirements, recording applicants' academic preferences, contributing to the organization of placement examinations, submitting to the Director of the Unit lists of students admitted to the Bachelor's degree or the preparatory programs, and ensuring that application data is entered into the computer system prepared for this purpose.
3- Contributing, together with the academic departments, to the coordination of the study plan and the distribution of course sections, in light of students' academic loads and student demand for shared elective and compulsory courses and for specialized courses, and following up on procedures for adding or reducing academic loads within the deadlines set for each semester, in accordance with the student's wishes.
4- Maintaining student records and continuously updating them with students' examination results and academic progress documents, and with all matters relating to the student, including decisions, notices and warnings issued concerning the student.
5- Organizing examination halls and preparing lists of examined students and their seat numbers in coordination with the heads of academic departments, documenting students' results in semester courses as referred by the College Council, and approving these results for use in registering students for subsequent semesters.
6- Issuing continuous statements showing students' cumulative averages in the final examinations of semester courses, scheduling the academic warnings issued to underperforming students in order to improve their academic achievement, in coordination with the heads of academic departments, and preparing the lists of outstanding students for the honor rolls, all in accordance with the conditions set out in the relevant regulations.
7- Applying clear policies, in light of students' cumulative averages and in coordination with the academic departments and academic advisors, that determine the academic load and the nature of the courses a student may take in a semester, in a manner appropriate to the student's abilities.
8- Preparing lists of graduates and verifying closely that they have completed all study requirements under the regulations for the award of the Bachelor's degree, and referring these documented lists to the Director of the Unit for comment, and then recommending them to the College Council for approval.
9- Preparing certificates and graduation documents on the basis of approved graduate lists, and obtaining the signature of the Director of the Unit in addition to those of the Dean and the Director.
10- Any other related tasks assigned by the Director of the Student Affairs and Admissions Unit.