Al-Quds Open University

A cooperation agreement between Al Quds Open University and Palestine Polytechnic University to establish a joint Master's degree program in Accounting and Finance


Published on: 14-07-2019

 The President of QOU, Prof. Younes Amr and the President of Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU), Prof. Imad Al-Khatib signed an agreement to establish a joint Master's Program in Accounting and Finance.

 The agreement marks a continuation of the cooperation between the Palestinian universities to provide higher education services, improve research in Palestine, and keep abreast of scientific and technological progress.The two Universities agreed to prepare a joint master's program in Accounting and Finance and submit it to the National Accrediting, Quality and Quality Authority for accreditation.

Prof.  Amr mentioned that the program aims to raise the level of knowledge of students in Palestine in the fields of Accounting and Financial Sciences at the postgraduate level. Prof. Amr added that this program is qualitative and will contribute to solving many accounting and financial problems and serve companies and the business sector in Palestine.

Prof. Al- Khatib stressed that the partnership between the universities in launching of programs at different levels is a development in the use of resources and competencies, which is reflected on the quality of these programs and outputs. He pointed out that the Polytechnic University of Palestine was the first university to start a partnership in the program of biotechnology, which developed significantly to serve important research sectors, in addition to many programs with Palestinian universities, the latest is a PhD program in information engineering in partnership with of the Arab American University and  Al-Quds University.

The signing ceremony was attended by Dr. Abdul Qader Darwish, Prof. Thiab Jarrar Acting Dean of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Prof.  Hosny Awad, Dean of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies, Mr. Awad Meshal Assistant Director of Public and International Relations and Media, Dr. Majdy Al-Kabaji a Faculty Member at Hebron Branch, the Vice Presidents of the PPU , Dr. Murad Abu Sabeeh, Dean of Scientific Research at PPU, Dr. Ismail Roumi Dean of the Faculty of Science and Information Systems at PPU and other Faculty members.