Program Language:Arabic

Program Duration: One academic year (Two Semesters)

Program Fees: 50,000 SR

​​Higher diploma program in combating terrorism

It aims to develop the capabilities of specialists in combating terrorism and extremism in all its forms and prepare security cadres capable of understanding the extent of the threat dealing with the mechanisms of newly developed extremist organizations, and training them to monitor threats using modern technological tools.​



1 Special admission requirements

  • Obtaining a bachelor’s degree in the following fields: (military sciences, police sciences, security sciences, political and human sciences).

2 Program Goals

  • Deepening knowledge of advanced policies and technologies in combating terrorism and its contemporary issues.
  • Providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to collect, analyze, and process data related to terrorist threats.
  • Preparing specialized expertise and cadres familiar with the basic knowledge of contemporary terrorism issues and its legal determinants.

3 Learning outcomes expected from the programme

  • Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the counter-terrorism system and managing strategic planning for the confrontation.
  • Using modern methods to confront cyber terrorism and identifying extremist organizations’ strategies for recruitment and attraction.
  • Managing counter-terrorism operations through collecting information and the ability to produce criminal intelligence and professional analysis of information.
  • Distinguishing the determinants and characteristics of terrorist organizations, analyzing the extremist mentality, the approach of their leaders, their operational tactics, financing operations, and managing criminal investigations.
  • Familiarity with the concepts and issues of terrorism, their historical development, and the legal framework for combating terrorism at the national and international levels.

4 Study Plan


OScheduledNumber of hours
1 Terrorism: intellectual issues2
2 Legal frameworks to combat terrorism2
3 Terrorist organizations2
4 Counter-terrorism strategies2
5 Cyber terrorism2
6 Research Methodology2
Total12

OScheduledNumber of hours
1 Counter-terrorism operations management2
2 Combating the financing of terrorism2
3 Intelligence and counter-terrorism3
4 Future challenges of terrorism3
5 graduation project2
Total12

5 College of Criminal Justice

كلية العدالة الجنائية

College of Criminal Justice; One of the leading colleges in the Arab world in its various specializations. It offers academic programs in the fields of: "Financial Integrity, Criminal Law, Forensic Evidence, Police Sciences, and Security Management", through A group of experts and specialists in the fields of criminal justice, and includes 4 academic departments, offering academic programs in the higher diploma and master’s degrees to prepare competencies and cadres equipped with the latest necessary knowledge, skills, and capabilities,

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6 Police sciences

قسم العلوم الشرطية

The Police Sciences Department is one of the departments of the College of Criminal Justice. It was established in response to the university's new strategy, which aims to develop the scientific, academic, and training aspects of police sciences in line with current developments. The department seeks to empower students with cognitive awareness, raise their security and police awareness, and equip them with the necessary and sufficient skills to face contemporary security challenges and threats. It also seeks to develop the ability to build strategies in police institutions, implement them, analyze them, develop them, and employ them in the field.

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