Sultan Qaboos University, located in Al Khoudh in the Muscat Governorate, Sultanate of Oman, the Sultan Qaboos University, located in Al Khoudh in the Muscat Governorate, Sultanate of Oman, the first public university in the Sultanate of Oman. Sultan Qaboos University is the realization of the promise announced by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said during the 10th anniversary of Oman’sNational Day in 1980. Construction started in 1982 and the first Sultan Qaboos University studentswere enrolled in 1986.The College of Arts and Social Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University aspires to become a leadingregional and international center of excellence in teaching, research and community service.The Department of Information Studies aspires to provide an outstanding education in InformationStudies. It also endeavors to be an outstanding and innovative academic department serving the nextfive yearsOmani society in the field of information with leadership at the local and regional levels.Recently, the department obtained an academic accreditation certificate for the undergraduateprogram from the British CILIP organization for the next five years.