Systematically measure/track women’s application rate, acceptance/entry rate, and study completion rate at the university
Beirut Arab University is an educational institution that supports inclusion and gender equality, in this sense the University every year counts male vs. female applications with the purpose of achieving gender equality in the acceptance of applications, the University always seeks 50 % of men and 50% of women as a minimum to have gender equality in new students entering the University.
By the year 2022, 52% of the women who applied to the University entered the University vs. 48% of the men who entered, achieving more inclusion of women in higher education, each year BAU develops strategies that allow these results.
Beirut Arab University stands out for being one of the universities with more women that are part of the academic community in Lebanon, this can be observed in a study carried out by USAID Lebanon in 2017. In total with 10,056 BAU students, it has 4,376 women and 5,680, about 44% of the total academic community are women.
Currently 116000 students in 40 different fields of studies at BAU occupying several positions in the Lebanese, Arab and international job market where the importance of women can be observed having around 41% of work occupation. Beirut Arab University continues to increase the growth of gender equity through different channels such as The Human Rights Center, in charge of monitoring that women's rights are fulfilled.
The Unit of Admissions at BAU aims to achieve a balance in applications for admission and give equal opportunities to both genders in this way to maintain gender equity. Admissions to BAU are a limited number of places and based on merits earned by prospective students regardless of race, country, gender, nationality or religion.
Beirut Arab University has an application form in which a future student can choose a career, filling in some fields with their personal data, in this case in order to seek an equal participation of admission applications between men and women, there is a field to identify the gender, student prospects have extensive information through the website on how to apply to a program, admission requirements and when to submit all the necessary documentation.
For future students who personally approach the University, BAU has an application format to enroll the student and record the student's enrollment. You must complete the data with the information requested by the University. To have gender equality in the acceptance of application requests for this BAU format, it also has a gender field with which you can count and know how many women and men applied each year.
As shown in the above table, we can see that the female students accepted in BAU are 4172 while the accepted males are 4725 which is very near numbers. This shows that the acceptance conditions are not related to gender but to the same equal conditions and requirements.
Center of Applied Statistics is the first of its kind in Lebanon and the region in terms of services. The reason for its existence is the urgent need in all disciplines at the university and in the community to collect and analyze data to help make the right decision or provide tips to improve the performance required.
Mission
Our mission is to assist students, faculties, and private sectors in the data analysis process by identifying the research questions, deciding on what to measure and how to measure it, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting the results.
Services
The center provides the following services:
Identifying the research question
Methods of data collection
Verifying the validity of the data
Organization of data
Data analysis
Interpreting of the results
Provide Specialized Courses of statistics
Women’s Studies is the most recent instrument of consciousness raising. Personal lives have been affected, and the role of the university in the society has changed. In the span of a decade or so, this new discipline has transformed the concepts and tools of social sciences and humanities. It is believed that long-term changes in society could be achieved through Women’s Studies programs and courses.
Women’s Studies brings together a wide range of disciplines, including Sociology, Psychology, Mass Media, History, Literature, Health and Law. The Women Studies program creates new opportunities for students to understand the experiences of women and to connect these experiences to those of other groups, both locally and globally.
For BAU it is of great importance that future and new students have knowledge of the rules and regulations of the university, in this sense BAU has a guide in which everything related to admissions, entrance, registration, the system of study can be observed, infractions, violation of the university code of ethics.
BAU delegates applications for admissions to the administrative section which is in charge of viewing, evaluating each application and responding, the university controls the number of students who enter each year and always seeks gender equity and this in turn is approved by the quality unit, the university emphasizes that its admissions are for men and women, there is no discrimination of any kind and the rules and regulations are the same for both genders.
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