Rich offer of academic programs
The College of Health Sciences is known for its diverse degree programs, its excellent reputation for high quality education, and the success of its graduates. The College’s rich academic program offers students a choice from a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, all leading to highly respected healthcare professions with brilliant future outlook. Furthermore, the College offers a one-year intensive program for professional specialization in all these disciplines.
Academic programs accredited by the state
The College of Health Sciences is proud to among the first private higher education institutions to have its academic programs accredited by the state. Accreditation in higher education is a process that assess the initial and ongoing compliance with the national norms and standards set by the Ministry of Higher Education. Its purpose is the improvement of academic quality and public accountability. This continuing quality control process occurs every five years.
Internationally recognized degrees
The curricula of the College of Health sciences were designed in full compliance with the higher education standards in Europe and the United States, enabling the recognition of the College degrees abroad.
For example, the European Higher Education Frameworks sets the credit requirement for the bachelor degree at 180 ECTS (European Credit and Transfer System). Every ECTS credit point represents 30 hours of learning workload, giving rise to a total of 5400 hours.
Likewise, in order to graduate with a bachelor degree in the United States, the college or university expects the students to complete 120 semester credits. One semester credit in the American system is equivalent to 45 hours whose allocation to different learning activities depends on the type of the study course or module (class, lab or clinical internship). Therefore, the total hours studied in a bachelor program is 5400 hours as a minimum.
The current version of the national higher education norms for the bachelor programs in Morocco does not define credit requirement for the curricula. However, it sets the total hours of the bachelor program at 1710, which is a bit less than one third of the learning workload in the European and the American higher education systems. As a results, one can imagine the impossibility of putting these degrees equal.
The same is true for the master degrees since the European and American higher education systems expect 3600 hours of learning activities, compared with 900 hours in the national norms. However, the difference becomes even more drastic when one considers the total learning workload for the bachelor and master degrees combined.
Therefore, the College of Health Sciences has developed its curricula in full compliance with these international norms by raising the learning workload to satisfy the European and american requirements, structuring the curricula into modules whose credit hours are clearly defined and justified, developing course description and syllabi defining the learning outcomes and learning activities, introducing modern learning approaches and adopting a reliable, valid and transparent evaluation system.
For example, the European Higher Education Frameworks sets the credit requirement for the bachelor degree at 180 ECTS (European Credit and Transfer System). Every ECTS credit point represents 30 hours of learning workload, giving rise to a total of 5400 hours.
Likewise, in order to graduate with a bachelor degree in the United States, the college or university expects the students to complete 120 semester credits. One semester credit in the American system is equivalent to 45 hours whose allocation to different learning activities depends on the type of the study course or module (class, lab or clinical internship). Therefore, the total hours studied in a bachelor program is 5400 hours as a minimum.
The current version of the national higher education norms for the bachelor programs in Morocco does not define credit requirement for the curricula. However, it sets the total hours of the bachelor program at 1710, which is a bit less than one third of the learning workload in the European and the American higher education systems. As a results, one can imagine the impossibility of putting these degrees equal.
The same is true for the master degrees since the European and American higher education systems expect 3600 hours of learning activities, compared with 900 hours in the national norms. However, the difference becomes even more drastic when one considers the total learning workload for the bachelor and master degrees combined.
Therefore, the College of Health Sciences has developed its curricula in full compliance with these international norms by raising the learning workload to satisfy the European and american requirements, structuring the curricula into modules whose credit hours are clearly defined and justified, developing course description and syllabi defining the learning outcomes and learning activities, introducing modern learning approaches and adopting a reliable, valid and transparent evaluation system.
Modern learning technology and infrastructure
To promote and foster excellence, we have equipped our facility with state-of-the-art equipment. The college has one of the country’s largest medical simulation centers. It provides technology for imitating the clinical environment and offering students the opportunity for acquiring practical skills and practicing decision making and critical thinking without gambling with patient safety.
Furthermore, the school is heavily equipped with interactive digital boards, computer-assisted learning applications and electronic voting systems. These technologies facilitate, enable and promote inclusion, participation and interactivity during courses.
Furthermore, the school is heavily equipped with interactive digital boards, computer-assisted learning applications and electronic voting systems. These technologies facilitate, enable and promote inclusion, participation and interactivity during courses.
Modern learning approaches
The College of Health Sciences is establishing itself as the leader in Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Illustrating its innovative character, the College has oriented the design of its educational curricula towards PBL. With such a major educational reform, the College is the first educational institutions in Africa that manages to escalate the implementation of the PBL to cover all degree programs at all levels (graduate and post-graduate).
We have designed our courses in the way that offers students the most interactive, informal and encouraging environment conducive to learning. Students are encouraged to think critically, to seek knowledge themselves and to translate theory into practice.
Our curricula are based on the art and science of helping students learn and perceive students as self-directed learners, with rich experiences and knowledge on which to draw. In this regard we see education as a process that builds up competences and leads to achievement of students’ full potential.
We have designed our courses in the way that offers students the most interactive, informal and encouraging environment conducive to learning. Students are encouraged to think critically, to seek knowledge themselves and to translate theory into practice.
Our curricula are based on the art and science of helping students learn and perceive students as self-directed learners, with rich experiences and knowledge on which to draw. In this regard we see education as a process that builds up competences and leads to achievement of students’ full potential.
Clinical placement for 100% of students
The College of Health Sciences is proud of its excellent organization of the clinical placement that guarantees supervised clinical placements for all its students. Clinical placements are designed to give students the chance to integrate their theoretical knowledge with practice and build their confidence, knowledge and professional identity as well as help consolidate or develop clinical skills.
The College enjoys a large network of partner clinical institutions for these clinical placements, including three teaching hospitals affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine of Casablanca, 10 hospitals affiliated to Casablanca Health Department, some 30 private hospitals and numerous centers, associations and schools.
Furthermore, the College has put in place a strong system of supervision and management of the clinical training, involving 10 full-time employees working to guarantee positive learning experience for our students in these institutions.
The College enjoys a large network of partner clinical institutions for these clinical placements, including three teaching hospitals affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine of Casablanca, 10 hospitals affiliated to Casablanca Health Department, some 30 private hospitals and numerous centers, associations and schools.
Furthermore, the College has put in place a strong system of supervision and management of the clinical training, involving 10 full-time employees working to guarantee positive learning experience for our students in these institutions.
High employment rate of graduates
Students that graduate from the College of Health Sciences have close to a 100% placement rate upon graduation. The starting salaries for graduates are some of the highest for undergraduate degrees in health sciences. The latest trend in this regard has been the reservation by employers of our graduating students in the final year of education. These developments reflect the confidence in the quality of our education and the satisfaction of of the professionalism and competence of ours graduates.
Excellent teaching faculty
No doubt that the most valuable asset of the College of Health Sciences is its teaching faculty. The College includes a group of the best professors who are experts in their field and experts in how students learn. They stimulate the students desire to learn, take on the role of mentors and compassionately guide students towards the fulfillment of their academic and professional goals. They take the collective responsibility to equitably engage all students in high quality, evidence-based educational experiences.
A strategic location in the heart of Casablanca
A very practical attraction of the College of Health Sciences is its central location in the heart of Casablanca that is easily accessible by all means of transport. It is located in the close vicinity of the train station of Casaport as well as the central stations of the tramway, the public bus and the collective taxis. This advantage is very much appreciated by our students because it reduces time, cost and stress related to transport.
Fair and affordable price for quality education
Understanding the challenge that the tuition poses for students and their families, the College of Health Sciences has adopted the policy of faire price for quality. According to this policy we guarantee to our students the best quality for money ratio, compared with any competitor in the market. Our prices are defined each year by careful study of our cost, analysis of competitors’’ prices and quality as well as the economic developments that affect the middle class purchasing power.
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COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESAuthorized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training (Authorization No. 434/2015)
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