1. TIES Kick-Off Meeting March 1-2, 2010 Alicante, Spain

2. Lebanon

4. Thriving banking sector Haute Couture Good fresh food Crazy night life, exciting art scene Ecotourism

5. Lebanon

6. The first higher education institution in the Middle East A very high number of universities per capita A long history of education and research

7. Beirut Arab University Founded in 1960 Private Institution of Higher Education Largest HEI in Lebanon Academically Affiliated with Alexandria University

8. Student Body For the year 2009-2010 Undergraduate: 9000 Graduate: 1500 Distributed over the Beirut, Dibbeyeh, and Alexandria campuses Number of graduates: 82,500, 23,280 are Lebanese Large number of students from other Arab nationalities

10. Faculties  Faculty of Arts  Faculty of Law  Faculty of Commerce and Business  Faculty of Architecture  Faculty of Engineering  Faculty of Science  Faculty of Pharmacy  Faculty of Medicine  Faculty of Dentistry  Faculty of Health Sciences

11. Faculty Members 130 Full time members Lebanese and Egyptian 380 Part time members

12. Mission Excellence in education, learning, and research whilst addressing the needs of our community and adhering to our academic values of intellectual freedom, integrity and professionalism Our Target is to be one of the Top 500 Universities

13. B.A.U. Campuses Beirut (since 1960) Dibbeyeh (since 2009) Tripoli and Bikaa (open in 2010 and 2011) Alexandria

14. Main Building - Beirut Campus

15. Debbieh Campus

16. 16 Association of Arab Universities (AARU). International Association of the Universities (IAU). Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW). Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). Union of the Lebanese Universities. Member of the following local and International Institutions

17. 17 Association of the Arab Faculties of Dentistry. Scientific Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in the Arab World. ARAB-ACRAO. Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI). Euro-med Permanent University Forum (EPUF). International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE).

18. 18 Stockholm University- Sweden. Université Claude Bernard Lyon I – France. Université de Provence- Aix Marseille I – France. Lebanese University- Lebanon. Université Charles –De-Gaulle Lille 3-France. Université de Savoie – France. Université de Bourgogne – France. Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI). Ecole Supérieure d'Electronique de l‘Ouest (ESEO). Sultan Qaboos University- Sultanate of Oman. BAU signed Local and International Agreements with:

19. Collaboration with EMUNI Euro-Mediterranean University Based in Slovenia 141 university members BAU is the representative of EMUNI in the Southern Mediterranean Region Partner with EMUNI on a Tempus Project

20. Beirut Arab University Recently created an office for International Relations with Universities headed by the Dean of Business School, Dr. Nihale Mostapha Committing serious efforts to grow and strengthen our international collaborations and activities, supported personally by the president Dr. Amr Adawi Samira Kaissi: skaisi@bau.edu.lbskaisi@bau.edu.lb

21. Thank You!