King Abdullah II School of Information Technology - Department of Information Technology

With the world becoming a "global village" in terms of ease and rapidness of communication, the discipline of business information technology (BIT) is increasingly gaining more momentum in this digital era and is playing a constructive role in advancing the society's welfare.

 

The BIT department strives to supply the IT sector with competent software professionals with a particular emphasis on business applications. Driven by our moral responsibility towards our society in promoting scholarship and in educating the next generation of IT specialists, the mission of the department is to provide high-quality academic programs that can deal with the rapid technological advancements. BIT graduates should be able to take the advantage of computer capabilities in developing reliable, sustainable and ethical technological solutions that can contribute in solving real-world complex business and economical problems.

Becoming one of the leading and premier business information technology institutions that provide quality education and promote world-class research.

The Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) of Business Information Technology (BIT) plays a critical role in assuring that the graduates of BIT at UJ are highly qualified with the principles of technology in business and well trained with a wide range of transferable skills in (BIT) disciplines including independent learners and team workers enabling them to be effective in the public and private sectors to meet the needs of Jordanian and the region in the several fields of (BIT). The (PEOs) of BIT are:
P1
Graduates have met the rigorous competitive admission procedure and international/local market requirements by showing high qualifications, advanced training, independent learners, and capability of teamwork in BIT disciplines.

P2
Graduates have obtained research skills to pursue their professional careers while fulfilling the need for professional instructors, lecturers, researchers and developers in BIT market.

P3
Graduates have established relationships with different local/international institutes by participating different professional activities, i.e. lectures, seminars, conferences, among other possible forms of collaborations.

P4
Graduates have become familiar with different work-related concepts, e.g. different job titles related to courses, core courses related to a specific job, major skills required to apply for a certain position, among others.

P5
Graduates have demonstrated the ability to understand and apply ethical and security considerations to problems in information technology environment.