Genesis of the college

Irbid University College (IUC) was established in Irbid in 1978. It was first an Institute for Female Teachers. It belonged to the Ministry of Education, and in 1980, it was turned to an intermediate community college. In 1985, the Ministry of Higher Education was created and the college was directed and supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education. In 1997, when Balqa' Applied University (BAU) was established, Irbid College was affiliated to (BAU). Therefore, the college has become under the umbrella of Balqa' Applied University with the aim of preparing human resources who would be academically and technically qualified and practically trained at both university and intermediate levels to meet the different needs and requirements of the local community.
The college has worked hard to provide instructional services and facilities. This enabled it to supply the public and private schools of the kingdom as well as neighbouring countries with tens of female teachers.
While the college has been following confident and solid steps since its establishment, it is working to gradually develop its programs, taking into consideration the needs of society and the labor market to contribute to addressing the unemployment problem.
The college has planned to hold many meetings to increase the interaction with the local community by involving the private sector in developing its programs and majors. At the same time, the college holds optimistic vision toward the future, as this college has highly qualified faculty members in various majors, which makes it able to meet the needs of the teaching process, in line with the college’s strategic plan within the vision of Al-Balqa Applied University.

Vision

The college seeks to develop more majors to award a bachelor’s degree for all majors in the college and create new majors to contribute to preparing cadres capable of serving the nation, especially since the college currently has academic and administrative staff, technical equipment and facilities that qualify it to meet the needs and requirements of university teaching in many disciplines.

Mission

Since its inception, the college has opened its doors to local community institutions for its keenness to extend bridges of cooperation with these institutions to benefit from the college's facilities and the services it provides, through:

Participation in public celebrations of religious and national occasions
Holding seminars, lectures and short specialized courses in several fields.
The college, through its relationship with the industrial, commercial and governmental sectors in the governorates of Irbid and the neighboring governorates, sends students for the purposes of field training and to identify the nature of the work of these institutions and to provide the student with the necessary practical skills.
Field visits and bilateral meetings

Objectives

Building on the fundamental objectives of the Al-Balqa Applied University, the college aims in particular to serve the local community, and the Jordanian and Arab society in general by preparing competencies needed by the local market, and the college’s strategic plan adopts the following objectives:

Provide intermediate associate diploma degree study opportunities for students in the academic, technical and applied fields
Provide students with scientific knowledge, skills and competencies in their majors, in line with the needs of the labor market for qualified and trained students
Integrate new majors that meet the needs of the labor market
Upgrading the level of education in the college through developing plans, curricula, and developing the college’s administrative and academic bodies
Develop students’ artistic and aesthetic sense
Share and Exchange the experiences with educational institutions inside and outside the Kingdom
Carry out activities which deepen the Islamic faith and values, and the national belonging of students