The Islamic University in Lebanon, through analytical and statistical systems, measures and analyzes the number of graduates of women compared to men. If a gender gap exists in other majors at the graduation level and stage, the university works to bridge and close this gap through several matters, where we can cite the most important of them:
The Islamic University in Lebanon (IUL), through its vision and establishment and under the leadership of a female president, is a university for the whole nation. The IUL provides equal opportunities in the field of education and shows social responsibility. It does not differentiate between any of the components of the homeland, regardless of religious, sectarian or ethnic affiliation. Equality between men and women is one of the foundations of the university’s vision and one of its most important goals. (new policies file to be approved by the president).
Accordingly, the IUL performs long-term follow-up and analysis of students (especially females) to the development paths of graduates (including different types of assessment outcomes, student success in further studies and jobs, career paths of graduates, employment).
Based on student learning outcomes, a predictive analysis model is designed to track the long-term learning process. The findings are used to create a predictive model that serves as the basis for modifying the teaching and therapy process and the distribution of faculties’ resources.
The university tracks periodically and systematically everything related to the female component of the university, whether through the admission or application rate for students, the recruitment process, or also through the determination of the educational staff and body. Every year, the university, through statistical programs, tracks the number of female students’ acceptance, and the number of employees in the administrative and educational bodies as well.
The university also studies the number of female students who finish their studies completely and graduate, compared to the total number of graduated students. Additionally, the IUL also tracks, through statistical studies, the number of admitted and graduated females, and compare them with the number of males in each of the specialties afforded by the university.
Based on these statistics, the IUL analyzes the females’ numbers reflected by these statistical studies and accordingly investigate the reasons behind its increase, decrease or stability in each of these specialties. Furthermore, the IUL sets its plans for every year for empowering women in areas where their presence and participation is less than the other areas or is low in comparison with that of males. This plan includes orientation and support, by all means, the engagement of the IUL females in certain specialties (as engineering, law, etc…), where their presence is low. Additionally, the plan includes providing and orientating females towards integration in trainings, seminars, competitions and different other participation that reinforces their presence and representation in the areas where their presence is low.
The IUL encourages faculties to raise the females’ enrollment quota proactively so that female students are more likely to be admitted. The IUL has proactively provide additional quotas for the admission of female students across different channels. In order to address the needs of female students in all respects, the IUL incorporates support mechanisms into the screening process in the different phases of ‘Individual application’ for university admission. Consequently, the IUL takes into account that the number of women should not be less than 30% in order to initiate these certain specialties or programs.
In order to encourage female students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to strive for excellence, to improve self-confidence and freedom, to reduce their financial burden during university studies and to enable them to study without financial concern, the IUL has set out the several supporting measures as follows:
|
From 2014/2015 till 2018/2019 |
Percentage |
|
Graduated students |
Total |
2745 |
|
Female |
1510 |
55 % |
|
Male |
1235 |
45% |
The tables and graphs represent the number of female graduation from each of the IUL faculties.
Economics and Business Administration
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/ 2015 |
2015/ 2016 |
2016/ 2017 |
2017/ 2018 |
2018/ 2019 |
|
Economics and Business Administration |
Graduating students |
Total |
156 |
128 |
120 |
121 |
152 |
Female |
82 |
62 |
74 |
69 |
100 |
||
Male |
74 |
66 |
46 |
52 |
52 |
Engineering faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/ 2015 |
2015/ 2016 |
2016/ 2017 |
2017/ 2018 |
2018/ 2019 |
|
Engineering |
Graduating students |
Total |
66 |
43 |
89 |
106 |
146 |
Female |
12 |
5 |
9 |
23 |
44 |
||
Male |
54 |
38 |
80 |
83 |
123 |
Islamic Studies faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/2015 |
2015/2016 |
2016/2017 |
20172018 |
2018/2019 |
|
Islamic studies |
Graduating students |
Total |
9 |
15 |
14 |
15 |
23 |
Female |
5 |
8 |
3 |
9 |
9 |
||
Male |
4 |
7 |
11 |
6 |
14 |
Law faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/2015 |
2015/2016 |
2016/2017 |
2017/2018 |
2018/2019 |
|
Law |
Graduating students |
Total |
82 |
85 |
128 |
138 |
145 |
Female |
35 |
27 |
61 |
77 |
89 |
||
Male |
47 |
58 |
67 |
62 |
56 |
Letters and Human Sciences faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/2015 |
2015/2016 |
2016/2017 |
2017/2018 |
2018/2019 |
|
Letters and human sciences |
Graduating students |
Total |
63 |
43 |
67 |
59 |
69 |
Female |
58 |
39 |
64 |
55 |
66 |
||
Male |
5 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
Nursing and Health Sciences faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/2015 |
2015/2016 |
2016/2017 |
2017/2018 |
2018/2019 |
|
Nursing and health sciences |
graduating students |
Total |
21 |
28 |
82 |
68 |
115 |
Female |
13 |
21 |
47 |
37 |
75 |
||
Male |
8 |
7 |
35 |
31 |
40 |
Sciences and Arts faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/2015 |
2015/2016 |
2016/2017 |
2017/2018 |
2018/2019 |
|
Sciences and arts |
graduating students |
Total |
29 |
35 |
65 |
57 |
53 |
Female |
23 |
29 |
50 |
41 |
35 |
||
Male |
6 |
6 |
15 |
16 |
18 |
Tourism Sciences faculty
Specialty |
Academic year |
2014/2015 |
2015/2016 |
2016/2017 |
2017/2018 |
2018/2019 |
|
Tourism |
graduating students |
Total |
16 |
7 |
20 |
18 |
27 |
Female |
11 |
4 |
14 |
11 |
14 |
||
Male |
5 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
13 |