Advisor: Prof. Kamel Mahadin
Co-advisor: Prof. Majdy Tawfiq

Abstract:
The study is concerned with the problem of the concepts and references of
the form of the university campus design in the Arab World, this is achieved
through the theoretical research on the educational institutions in history,
the physical analysis of two existing case studies and the acknowledgment of
the users' experiences and opinions, also through concluding criteria and
determinants of the study upon which a spectrum of recommendations could be
suggested to outline and guide the design process of the university campus
design in the Arab World within the discipline of urban design.

The first chapter explains the problem statement of the study, the scope of
the study, its goals and objectives and its methodology and hypothesis. The
second chapter is concerned with a historical background of the educational
institution and the design ideas that participated in forming it within its
context, it represents a theoretical background for the study. The third
chapter analyzes two case studies chosen according to being representatives
of two different experiences in university campus design; the University of
Jordan (Amman) and the Jordanian University of Science and Technology
(Irbid). The fourth chapter, through the use of a questionnaire, examines
the perceptual dimensions of the users of the two universities, it provides
a different dimension and human determinants of the design. The fifth
chapter sums all the previous chapters in a form of conclusions and
recommendations that provide design thinking frames and guide expected to be
introduced to participate in the design process of the university campus
design in the Arab World.

The study has confined itself within the physical dimension of the
university campus, it opens itself to other dimensions only when they are
supposed to have caused or caused by it. The study finds itself as a small
effort to be introduced to the science of urban design. It discusses
indirectly unsolved issues; like some Islamic architecture concepts, the
possibility of addressing the physical environments by non-physical concepts
and the ability of the urban masses and spaces to provide certain human
impressions.