The university opened the economics department in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1999. The department has continuously worked to qualify its students with the necessary knowledge and skills in theoretical and applied fields of economics to meet the needs of the labor market locally and internationally. Note that in the economics program the student obtains a bachelor's degree in economics. The program admits students who have passed the high school exam and students who pass the comprehensive examination for graduates of community colleges in the field of administrative and economic sciences. And the program works in a distinguished elite of faculty members who hold a doctorate.