Nizwa College of Technology
The Nizwa College of Technology is a state college in Nizwa , Oman .
The college was founded in 1993 as Nizwa Technical and Industrial College and has had its current name since 2001. It is one of seven technical colleges in Oman and belongs to the tertiary education sector. It offers technically oriented training courses for Omani nationals. The training and qualification of the local population is primarily intended to serve the Omanization of the Omani economy.
The college is located approximately 12 km east of the oasis city of Nizwa and is on its own campus. There are teaching buildings for the various disciplines, a mechanical workshop and an English language center on the site. There is also an administration building, residential buildings for college employees, a cafeteria for male students and visitors, a canteen for female students, a theater, a football field, a mosque, a theater, various shops, a student dormitory, a medical station and a parking garage the area.
The admission requirement is the General Secondary School Certificate , which can be obtained after 12 years of attending school. One-year certificate courses, two-year diploma courses and three-year higher diploma courses in engineering, business studies and information technology are offered. This can be followed by a further year at another institution in order to acquire the academic degree of a bachelor 's degree.
In the 2008/2009 academic year, a total of 2669 students (981 of them female) studied at the college.
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- ↑ See Sultanate of Oman, Ministry of National Economy : Statistical Year Book, Thirty-Eighth Issue - November 2009, section 19-24, p. 422.
See also
- Higher College of Technology Muscat
- Musanna College of Technology
- Shina's College of Technology
- Salalah College of Technology
- Ibra College of Technology
- Ibri College of Technology
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Coordinates: 22 ° 53 ′ 29 ″ N , 57 ° 33 ′ 18.2 ″ E