Al-Quds University (AQU) is a research university that currently offers more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate programs, taught through its fifteen degree-granting faculties, covering the main scientific disciplines, which include medicine, life and natural sciences, arts and humanities, business and management, law and jurisprudence, engineering, and social sciences. Established in 1977 in fulfillment of a 1931 resolution to found an Arab university in Jerusalem. AQU currently enrolls around 12,000 full time students, taught by more than 700 faculty members.