Amman- 7 March 2022
On Thursday 24th of February 2022, the International Office, represented by Director Ms. Stefanie Kirsch and Incoming Coordinator Mr. Rakan Aldweiri welcomed the new group of Incoming students at GJU. In this spring semester 2022 in total 47 students from 27 Partner universities (24 German, 1 Austrian, 1 Italian & 1 from Iceland) found their way to Jordan and started their studies at our German Jordanian University.
Out of a group of 29 female and 18 male international students, there are 33 regular Exchange Students and 14 with Erasmus+ scholarships. The majority of them will study at SABE Campus while 19 students will be on our main campus. Looking at their majors it is quite obvious that the Department for Social Work, hosting 20 out of 47 Incomings, is very attractive to students from abroad, followed by our School for Architecture and Built Environment (SABE) with 8 students and other schools like SAMS, SMLS, SAHL, SATS, SEEIT, SNREM having international students in this semester in their lectures.
The group was warmly welcomed by the team of the International Office, Vice-President Prof. Dr. Ralf Rosskopf, Mrs. Britta Kähler from DI-TECH and Dr. Bader Madi from SAHL, Social Work Department. Having lectures face to face on campus again, Ms. Kirsch encouraged them to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know the university and its facilities and services better, to communicate with its professors and students and develop friendship with each other.
Prof. Rosskopf pointed out that GJU was built in the same way as the German universities in Applied Sciences, which harmonizes between theoretical science and scientific application.
In addition to that, he talked about the most important characteristics of the university, including the German dimension of the German year to which the university attaches great importance, from language teaching to the academic and industrial partnerships with German universities and companies, underlined by Mrs. Kähler and the special new role in this regard of the Deanship of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship (DI-TECH).
We wish the Incoming students a fruitful stay in Jordan and a successful study semester at GJU.
