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The educational, research, and service activities of AUB's faculties and schools lie at the heart of the University's well-deserved reputation for academic excellence. The sketches below say a little about their histories, structures, and programmatic offerings. For a fuller picture of the dynamic intellectual environment at each of our faculties and schools, please click on the highlighted links.
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Founded in 1952, the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS) is currently under the deanship of Professor Nahla Hwalla. FAFS’s four departments (Agricultural Sciences; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management; and Nutrition and Food Sciences) offer seven Bachelor’s degrees and eleven Master’s degrees. The faculty operates two research centers: the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU), created in 2001; and the Agricultural Research and Education Center (AREC), a 100-hectare interdisciplinary center in Lebanon’s Beqa’a Valley that was founded in 1953. AREC is dedicated to the improvement of rural livelihoods in the drylands. The site includes a research farm, a small agricultural library, a seed bank, a weather station, a clinic, staff residences, a student cafeteria and dormitories, classrooms, laboratories and other facilities.
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- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Presently led by Professor Patrick McGreevy, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which was established in 1866, is AUB’s oldest faculty. FAS is home to 16 different departments offering over just under 50 Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the humanities, basic sciences and social sciences. In Fall 2007, FAS reintroduced the PhD in four disciplines: Arabic Language and Literature; Arab and Middle Eastern History; Cell and Molecular Biology; and Theoretical Physics. Seven research centers, institutes, and programs focusing on disciplines in the humanities and social sciences fall under the FAS umbrella. FAS faculty are also very active in informal research groupings and in interdisciplinary centers housed in other faculties as well as the Provost’s Office.
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- Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
- Although AUB began offering a BS program in Engineering in 1913, it took another 38 years before a separate School of Engineering was established at the University. Today the school is known as the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA) and it is under the stewardship of Professor Makram Suidan, who took up his position in Fall 2011. FEA has four main departments (Architecture and Design; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Mechanical Engineering) as well as programs in Chemical Engineering and Engineering Management. In addition to 16 Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in these and other fields, FEA also has programs leading to the PhD in Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Environmental and Water Resources Engineering; and Mechanical Engineering. FEA is home to over a dozen dynamic research centers and groups.
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- Faculty of Health Sciences
- The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) gained its independence from the Faculty of Medicine in 1954, with the establishment of the School of Public Health, which became a faculty in its own right in 1978. Under the deanship of Professor Iman Nuwayhid, the faculty awards graduate and undergraduate degrees through four departments: Environmental Health; Epidemiology and Population Health; Health Promotion and Community Health; and Health Management and Policy. It also offers a Medical Laboratory Technology program in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine (FM); and teaches courses in public health to medical students and residents at FM. Much of the research activity at FHS is channeled through its Center for Research on Population and Health.
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- Faculty of Medicine
- The Faculty of Medicine (FM) has provided medical education to students in Lebanon and the Middle East since 1867. In conjunction with AUB Medical Center (AUBMC), which was first founded in 1902, FM offers an MD program and MS programs in five basic medical sciences (Biochemistry; Human Morphology; Microbiology and Immunology; Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Physiology), as well as a combined MS-MD. The Rafic Hariri School of Nursing, which offers BS and MS degrees in Nursing, also falls under FM. Dr. Mohamed Sayegh is the dean of FM and AUB’s vice president for Medical Affairs; Dr. Huda Huijer Abu-Saad is the director of HSON. FM and AUBMC are hubs for considerable research activity.
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- Suliman S. Olayan School of Business
- Business education at AUB started as early as 1900, but remained under the auspices of FAS until September 2000, when the University established, as its sixth faculty, an independent School of Business that was later named the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB). Under the leadership of its founding dean, Professor George Najjar, OSB redesigned the curricula for its BBA and MBA programs in 2001, and introduced the Executive MBA two years later to meet regional demand. Although it is still a new school, OSB has grown enormously in a very short time and has already established a number of knowledge centers.
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