2019 OUR IMPACT The Impact of the University of Bahrain Contents 2019 A Year Full of Achievements ..... 5 Economic Impact ................................. 6 Teaching and Learning ......................... 8 Our Students ...................................... 10 UOB Rankings by Numbers ................ 14 Leaders in Technology ......................... 16 Research and Postgraduate Studies .... 18 National Partnerships ......................... 20 A Global University ........................... 22 Sustainable Development Goals ........ 24 Environment and Digital Footprint ..... 26 www.uob.edu.bh uobedubh Design by: Ms. Hooriya Al Madani Ranked Number 1 in Bahrain 2019 Highest ever QS Arab Rankings A YEAR FULL OF Ranked top 4% Globally ACHIEVEMENTS Ranked top 2% Employer Reputation Globally Welcome As the national university established in1986, Highest ever number of we are committed and proud of our contribution to life in Bahrain. Our university touches the lives research papers published of many within Bahrain and within the region. Our contribution to public services, private sector development, startups, education and Increase in number of healthcare provision and outreach to communities and alumni, means we are central to national priorities, human capital international research development and economic development. In 2019, we continued the significant progress and pride of the conferences and symposiums preceding years. Our impact is global through our research collaborations, academic and employer reputation, student success, technology partnerships, joint conferences and new Increase in number of institutional partnerships. None of our achievements in 2019 would have been possible without the dedicated staff of the postgraduate students enrolled university; our collective impact is a direct result of teamwork demonstrated over the last twelve months. I hope this report gives you a sense of our impact both locally, Steady increase in number of regionally and globally. new programmes introduced Professor Riyad Hamzah President 4 Economic Impact UOB academic conferences in 2019 attracted 1,500+ UOB is a major contributor to the economy in Bahrain and the region. The university overseas visitors to Bahrain contributes to the human-capital development with over 30,000 local and international students. UOB is also one of the largest UOB generated $2,000,000+ employers in the Kingdom and contributes to the local economy through its employees, from its collaboration with visitors and its infrastructure spendings. industries. UOB employed 1,500+ staff in the 2018-19 academic year Over $50,000,000 committed to infrastructure spending including a new College of Engineering to be built on the main campus designed by Kenzo Tange 6 7 Teaching and Learning 179 fellows, 8 senior The academic reputation of UOB in the MENA fellows and 12 associate region has improved significantly in 2019, placing the university in 28th position. This reflects fellows from the Higher our commitment to excellence in teaching and Education Academy students’ experience which is supported by our collaborations with world-class partners in teaching and research. Over 200 faculty Microsoft Certified Educators Over 150 professional development programmes and workshops in 2019 Fully fulfilled the Accreditation from ABET, requirements of the second AACSB, NAAB, ASIIN and cycle of the institutional HEC review set by the Education Global partner of (UK) and Training Quality Advance Higher Authority (BQA) Education 8 9 Our students won Third Our Students are World Place in Huawei Global ICT Class Competition UOB prepares today’s youth to become tomorrow’s leaders. We contribute to the human capital development in Bahrain with 86% of students enrolled in graduates leading the economic growth and the foundation year graduated improvement in public services in the kingdom. successfully Our students won top 3 positions in the Fourth Arab Reading Challenge th 150 female students obtained Ranked 15 in the MENA professional certificates in IT region for employer Governance reputation by QS in 2019 Our students obtained professional certificates in VR/ Our students won 3 top AR Technology positions in AWS Artificial Intelligence Hackathon 600+ Students offer innovative solutions for housing challenges 10 11 Our students won top 2 Our students won 1st Place positions in Bahrain Collegiate in Present Around the World Programming Contest in (PATW) Competition collaboration with IEEE Our Alumni won 3 top Our students won 3rd Place positions in Political Speech in AICHE Middle East Regional Writing Competition organized Chem-E-Car Competition by Bahrain Institute for Political Development Our students won the National Universities League in football, Won 3rd Place in Anti-money basketball and volleyball Laundering Competition in UAE 20 students graduated from Our students won Third Place the third cohort of the Masters in FIRST Global Challenge in Public Management in addressing today’s most critical partnership with Aix Marseille environmental issues University Our students won 1st Place in Our students won Ebrahim K. the First Scientific Hackathon Kanoo Award for Engineering for Bahraini Women Excellence 12 13 QS Globally ranked top UOB Rankings by Numbers 850 2019 UOB continued improving its rankings regionally Global employer and globally in 2019 with the university’s highest ever Arab ranking. This is a result of reputation top 2% the collective efforts and dedication of the university’s staff, students, stakeholders and partners. Our success is Bahrain’s success. QS Arab ranked 23 Arab employer reputation ranked 15 23 2020 Citations per paper 25 2019 ranked 17 31 2018 Academic reputation ranked 28 33 2017 International research 42 2016 network ranked 40 14 15 Leaders in Technology 2000+ students attended UOB Coding Academy trained the 2019 Innovation and over 120 students UOB contributes to Bahrain’s thriving digital and Entrepreneurship Forum entrepreneurship ecosystem through working UOB has been accredited by closely with its technology partners to develop the skills of staff and students and provide the 1000+ students participated in Information and eGovernment innovative infrastructure solutions. technology hackathons Authority for achieving the Level 3 “Advanced” in the CyberTrust UOB offers one-year cloud Program computing certificate to students Partnerships with Dell Technologies for the One of the first educational Won a Diversity Award for implementation of smart institutes to issue blockchain- highest number of female initiatives and providing an based certificates participants at DevFest 2019 optimal and sustainable learning by Google Developer Group environment First University in the Middle (DGD) Manama East and North Africa to Partnering with the world’s offer BSc in Cloud Computing largest technology companies in collaboration with AWS Won Best Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions Project such as AWS, SAP, Huawei to Educate Cloud Degree support innovation, training and Initiative (VDI) professional development 16 17 Our faculty member won Best Research Research and Postgraduate Paper in IEEE Wireless Communications Studies and Networking Conference As part of the research project with the Bahrain Flag raised in a Research University of Aston, a paper was published Polar Center in Antarctica as part of UOB continues to make significant contributions in a high impact journal, “Renewable and Research Collaboration with University through its research collaborations with the Sustainable Energy Reviews”. The paper world’s leading universities focusing on the highlights the challenges and the potential of Lisbon and Herriot-Watt University region’s critical issues of water desalination, solutions for large-scale RO desalination $1.5M Funds for international energy food security, renewable energy, disruptive operated by mature renewables, showing collaboration projects technologies and education. that variable operation is a promising operation strategy to directly operate RO New PhD in Computing and Information plants with wind and solar power, providing Sciences recommendations and future directions for further studies. New Master degree in Family Counseling BD 80,000+ research grants funded for University Research $100,000 UNEP research fund to The joint research project aims to As part of the research project with develop the National Implementation develop new strategies to reduce energy Loughborough University, 4 renewable energy Plan for the Stockholm Convention on consumption during pre and post treatment labs, the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Testing Lab, 30+ 37% 5% for RO plants. An in-depth survey has been the Biomass Lab, the Meteorology Lab and Persistent Organic Pollutants in the conducted on the current pre-treatment the Outdoor Renewable Energy Lab were Kingdom of Bahrain technologies, to ascertain their limitations established at the University of Bahrain. These International Increase in and potential for improvements, the result labs not only serve research at the university, Increase in Our faculty member won a Lifetime of the first stage of this collaboration was but will also be used to provide consultation academic publications postgraduate Achievement in Statistics from Venus published in “Desalination” which is one of and testing services for the renewable energy conferences from 2018 student International Research Foundation the top international journals in the field of sector in Bahrain