and international universities, searches for external fund resources, works on expanding the graduate studies programs, activates the scientific sabbatical leaves for faculty staff, works on keeping the teaching burden according to international standards, provides financial incentives for researchers who gained an external fund, encourages participation in international conferences and supports faculty members’ mobility between local universities. (Sustainability and Financial Independence): AAUP implements a real budget system. The surplus is used to bring in efficient faculty members and to start developmental and infrastructure projects. In order to achieve its sustainability and financial independence, AAUP seeks to increase number of students by expanding horizontally by (increasing the number of new programs), and vertically by its (graduate studies programs), to establish new centers aiming to increase income, such as: Consultants centers, specialized clinics, entertainment facilities, AAUP hospital and dormitories. (Local Community): AAUP cares to build partnership relations with civil society institutions through providing continuous education and training, and through collaborating with the industrial and commercial sectors. AAUP seeks to enhance relations with the community through the office of the Vice President for Community Affairs and the Public and International Relations Department, to determine the cooperation aspects and the possible ways to expand and improve its services to the community. AAUP also works on restructuring and developing activities that require community services, on improving the consultant centers and also works on encouraging the establishing of Arab American University Friends Association. Educational environment AAUP provides an educational environment including the educational and technological means and facilities such as the buildings, the computer laboratories, the medical devices and the sports village and it always encourages its students to learn and train themselves for the best to be able to compete locally, regionally and internationally in accordance to the main vision of AAUP. Academic faculties Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences The Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences provides the following BA programs: Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources Management, Financial and Banking Sciences, Marketing, Hospitals and Health Care Management, Management Information System (MIS), Finance and Data Science and Economics and Islamic Banking. Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences The Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences offers BA programs related to the medical professionals and medical technology such as: Prosthetics and Orthotics, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Technology, Medical Imaging, Pharmacy and Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders. Faculty of Arts The Faculty of Arts offers BA