Postgraduate Program (Masters - PhD)
Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC)
Registration and Admission:
Admission for applicants is announced according to the center’s capacity and the admission requirements for each academic year. This is approved by a decision from the Scientific Council of the center through the graduate studies department at the university, which completes the admission procedure files and sends them to the center. The center examines the documents to ensure they meet the admission criteria set by the Scientific Council.
Then, the scientific selection process begins to choose the required number of candidates through an entrance exam, the timing of which is specified in an internal announcement. Based on the results, the final outcome is announced, including the names of the accepted students selected according to the highest scores in the ranking. The results are then approved by the Scientific Council of the Department of Research and Population Studies, and submitted to the Scientific Council of the center for final approval. After being approved, it is forwarded to the Graduate Studies Office at the university for endorsement.
Master's program admission requirement:
To join the Master’s program, the student must:
Any student with a bachelor’s degree, or a license in any specialization from the university is accepted.
The grade in the bachelor’s degree, or the license, or the higher diploma must not be less than good.
The applicant for the master’s program is subject to the entrance exam, which is determined by the center according to its capacity.
The same conditions stated in the regulations of postgraduate studies at Sana’a University regarding the master’s program must apply to him.
PhD Program Admission System:
The conditions for admission to the doctoral program are:
The student prepares two research papers, one of which will be published in a local journal and the other in an external journal.
reparing a doctoral thesis.
he duration of the doctoral program is four years.
First: Knowledge and Uderstanding:
It is anticipated that students following their completion of the High Diploma Program in Population Studies have gained sufficient knowledge on the basics of demography and its relation with different walks of life of the whole Yemeni society.
It is assumed that students should be able to know the effects of natural, economic, historic and environmental factors on the demographic distribution.
It is likely that students should be able to analyze and explicate man’s role in in actively contributing to the achievement of an overall development and explain the impact of internal migration from rural areas to main and secondary cities; from major cities to secondary ones; and from secondary cities to major ones. They also would be able to explain the impact of migrating abroad, that is, from Yemen to other countries, whether being Arab or foreign ones as well as migrations to Yemen. The impact of all that on the economic and social aspects in the Republic of Yemen.
It is presumed that students would be capable of analyzing the impact of age and sex-based structure of the Yemeni population and its relation of such impact on the generation of job opportunities for the youth. They would be able to examine the impact of demographic structure on the economic, social and political development plans adopted by the Government.
It is likely that students would acquire the knowledge on the differences among demographic phenomena and their impacts on various human activities, whether being agricultural, industrial, environmental, educational, or health, etc.
Second: High Diploma Program In Population Studies Educational Strategy and Teaching Methods: :
To deliver high quality education, the Center would follow and bank on a full set of modern educational strategies and teaching methods for population studies; most include the followings:
Teaching based on Performing relevant tasks.
Teaching based on Data Collection.
Teaching based on Problem Solving.
Independent and Self-Learning.
Third: Learning Opportunities for Students Affiliated to the High Diploma Program in Population Studies::
Students Affiliated to the High Diploma Program in Population Studies will have plenty of opportunities to learn and convey what they acquired to others ; most include the followings:
اActive Participatory Learning.
Classroom and Non-classroom learning.
Fourth: Intellectual Skills:
Students will be able to examine and understand to what extent population growth could have different and various impacts on the economic, social, educational and environmental development in the Republic of Yemen.
Students will have knowledge on to what extent population growth could influence and impact employment and per capita income and the relation of such effects on the standard of living.
Students would be able to understand the positive and/or negative impacts of human behavior on the environment and on other vital fields. They would know how the difference of population density from one governorate to another has various impacts.
Students would be enabled to draw comparisons between the results of the first census and followings in the southern and northern governorates after the Unification of Yemen.
Students would be oriented and guided to know and analyze the different causes of population density per square kilometer between one governorate and another, whether such causes are natural, human-made or environmental.
Students would be skilled in writing well-designed and meaningful reports highlighting the demographic phenomena and the differences of such phenomena from one governorate to another in the Republic of Yemen along with highlighting the impacts of such factors on government policies designed mainly for achieving comprehensive and sustainable development.
Students would be able to deal with and analyze data and information and other statistical particulars produced by official authorities and agencies appertaining to multi-facet demographic matters and to what extend such agencies use such statistics in preparing and developing various plans and programming.
Fifth: Professional and Practical Skills:
Students would learn report writing skills and skills of preparing and doing studies on any demographic phenomenon in Yemen and its impact on people’s lives.
Students will be able to acquire the skill of knowing how to understand population distribution among various governorates of the Republic of Yemen and to how to link such distribution to natural and human phenomena.
Sixth: General and Transferable Skills:
By studying the courses offered by the High Diploma Program in Population Studies, students would be able to transfer and convey different acquired and learnt information on population subject-matters; such population concentration, distribution, major structure and their relation with natural resources.
Students would be capable of clearly presenting accounts on demography to those interested in such subject. They could explain the impacts of population growth, distribution, density, age-sex structure and the relation of these factors with the phenomenon of internal and external migration and their relation to human fertility.
Students would be able to analyze the information and statistics collected on population; the cause behind increasing growth rates; their economic, social and political participation in government policies geared for bettering and improving the people’s living standard.
Students studying the courses offered by the High Diploma Program in Population Studies would be able to discuss with any person curious to know about human life developments, their education and health and advances in various walks of life.