Academic Facilities:

 Martyr Bassil Al-Assad's Center for Electronic Computing:

The center was founded in Tishreen University, 1986, by the name of Computing Center. In 1995, the center, by the Presidential Decree, was given its present name. The center possesses /300/ computers, most of them IBM, distributed on the faculties of the university, in addition to administrative offices. The center supervises the functioning of the computers besides all necessary maintenance.

The center is directly involved in all teaching activity of “programming” in the “undergraduate stage”, as well as training postgraduate students to bring their researches to success. In addition to that the center makes training courses to all teaching staff, as well as administrative officials in the university. The target of these courses is to help those involved to use computer and its programs.

The center plays a crucial role in upgrading the administrative work in the university. So far it performed several programs related to administrative applications which aim to transfer the work from a manual one to a mechanically operated one, more active and more accurate, in this respect we can refer to programs related to fees, salaries, personnel archives plus many more. At the moment in the process of preparing a program to introduce the university using “Multimedia”, this program is being continuously developed in line with the progress in the field of programming.

Since its start in 1986-1987, the center was put in use to serve society. It participated in the organization and preparation for the Mediterranean Sports 10^th session hosted by Lattakia. The center trained 30 engineers and 60 youth to use the computers to operate on the information of the results of all the competitions, as well as to help indirectly the back pictures.

The center offers technical expertise to consultation to many governmental departments that wish to buy computers, through contribution in preparing conditions books, and checking the tenders. The center is ready to offer expertise to prepare administrative and scientific programs necessary for these establishments and departments, and to train workers to use these programs.

The center participates in many conferences, in the field of informatics. It also calls for symposia in this field. Among the most important symposia held, in this regard was the Regional Scientific Symposium about the use of informatics in development. That was done in collaboration with the Regional Office for Technological Sciences of the Arab Countries (ROSTAC) of the UNESCO.

The center has a good library with the remarkable collection of scientific references devoted to programming and informatics, in Arabic and other languages, in addition to its subscription in several periodicals, which it regularly receives.

The center is embarked on implementing the presidential Decree /152/, for 1997 which stipulates that informatics should be taught in the “undergraduate stage” in all the faculties, departments and institutes through preparing laboratories, distributing computers, preparing relevant syllabus, and providing faculties with the teaching staff.

The center is still following the recent development in the field of informatics and computers, through acquiring new computers and programs.

The faculties will also be connected to a local computer network, which will be connected later on to an all-university network, and in the future, to the Higher Education network.

        The Farms of the Faculty of Agriculture in Bouka and Fedayo:

A. The Bouka Farm: located in the north suburb of Lattakia, and close to campus, Bouka is 158,000 square meters. It has fields for citrus trees, fruit trees, a forestation field, a special field for vegetable farming. The farm is designed to train and academically prepare students in the Faculty of Agriculture and to facilitate academic research conducted by the faculty members of the Faculty of Agriculture.

B. The Fedayo Farm: located in the southeast of Lattakia (3 kilometers from campus), this farm is 170,000 square meters, where students receive practical training in the two areas of Crops and Animal Products, and faculty members also conduct their scientific research.

 Al-Assad University Hospital (AUH):

The AUH is a teaching hospital run by an administrative council headed by the President of Tishreen University. The Hospital’s capacity is around 276 beds available in the various clinical departments and in 10 out- patient (or external) clinics. The AUH is equipped with the most up-to-date medical technology. In cooperation with faculty members of the Faculty of Medicine at Tishreen University, the AUH strives to provide the best services for all citizens, provide clinical training for students in the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Nursing, the School of Nursing, the Intermediate Institute of Medicine, and graduate students.