Al-Ahliyya Amman University is a university located in Amman, Jordan. It is the leading private university in Jordan. It was founded in 1990 and is organized in eight faculties. The President of the University is Prof. Dr. Maher Salim. File:AboutAAU.jpg Amman University is the first private University to be established in Jordan. It is active in the field of private higher education. AU is fully accredited by the Jordanian Council of Higher Education, the only accrediting authority in Jordan. AU enjoys wide Arab and international recognition, and it is an active member of the Association of Arab Universities. These are the seven academic faculties in which the university is divided into: The university also contains Amman University follows the credit-hour system. In this system, the yearly instruction takes place for the duration of two semesters, 16 weeks each, and one optional summer semester of 8 weeks in duration.