Since its establishment in 2006 by the University Rector’s Resolution No. (400) for the year 2006, the ADQAC has been dedicated to fulfilling its mission of serving, improving, and developing higher education. It aims to promote quality culture among university affiliates and conduct developmental programs and training courses for faculty members, administrators, and technicians to enhance the quality of higher education outputs, in order to meet the needs of society and provide the labor market with highly qualified outputs with specific specialties dictated by strategic motives, thus saving the cost of recruiting foreign expertise.

The University presidency, represented by its Rector, Prof. Al-Qassem Mohammed Abass, assigns the Academic Development and Quality Assurance Center (ADQAC) the primary and active role in setting plans, strategies, and implementing activities for the university that contribute to the quality, improvement, and development of the university and all its facilities through quality units. By this, the University seeks to keep pace with global developments to ensure quality and to enhance academic performance so that the University can compete globally, face challenges, achieve self-realization, and thus obtain international academic accreditation among prestigious universities.

Since mid-2019, the ADQAC has transformed into a collective workshop, functioning as a determined beehive, focused on the preparation of specifications of academic programs and study courses and conducting self-assessment of these programs. A clear work plan was set, guided by a strategic vision, and encouraged by the university leadership to complete program and course specifications and conduct self-assessment, paving the way for achieving national and regional institutional accreditation. By the end of 2019, the specification workshops were held in all faculties, and then the process of preparing specifications for programs and courses progressed to make 2020 a year of exceptional curriculum specification. The University has completed the process of specification for 120 academic programs and 6,552 courses in 19 faculties, in addition to 10 programs, and 100 courses in 14 university centers. In early 2021, a comprehensive plan was drawn up to conduct a self-assessment of academic programs in various faculties in the university. Workshops for quality assessment were held in all faculties, starting the self-assessment process for academic programs in 2021, a year of outstanding self-assessment. Despite the significant achievements in the specification and evaluation process, the Center’s work has not been limited to that. It has also issued more than (81) publications covering all the University’s educational needs, including guides, standards, instructions, etc. Additionally, a website has been created for the Center on the Internet, showing the academic productivity of researchers through rigorous scientific research published locally, regionally, and internationally. These efforts have resulted in the publication of more than fifteen thousand (15,000) research papers in all academic disciplines. Some have entered international competitions and won awards, all contributing to the goal of ensuring quality and academic accreditation.

Amidst the relentless pursuit of obtaining national accreditation, the Center has fulfilled the requirements for national accreditation in both programmatic and institutional qualities. We have obtained programmatic accreditation for the faculties of Medicine and Dentistry. Besides, we strive to complete the accreditation process for the remaining faculties within the next three months. Additionally, we are diligently working towards achieving international accreditation, starting with the Faculty of Medicine. Thanks to its educational structure, infrastructure, and concrete development steps, the University has made significant progress globally over the past four years, advancing more than two thousand (2000) ranks globally. Despite the blockade, aggression, and income disruption, Sana’a University continues to have a leading position locally and excel in improvement and development both regionally and internationally.