Gov’t changes GPA requirements for students abroad

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AMMAN — A decision by the Higher Education Council will chang the requirements for Jordanian students to study abroad as of next school year, according to Al-Ghad News.اضافة اعلان

For their foreign degrees to be eligible for official recognition, students must have — on their Tawjihi (general secondary certificate examination) or equivalent diploma — achieved a GPA of at least 85 percent for medicine and dentistry degrees; 80 percent for architecture, engineering, pharmacy, veterinary medicine degrees; and the minimum required score at public universities for other degrees.

The requirements also specify that bachelor’s students’ residency must have completed their study within a school year or two periods of four consecutive months. For PhD students, students must have completed five school semesters or 20 months, divisible into periods of four consecutive months.

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