Sultan Qaboos University

جامعة السلطان قابوس

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Institutional accreditation

Programme level

Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
(second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF EQF Level 7 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
(first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF EQF Level 6 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Agricultural Engineering (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Engineering
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Animal Science (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science in Animal Science
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Bachelor of Law (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • LL.B.
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Bachelor of Law (degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    -
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Biotechnology (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Environmental Biology (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Food Science (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Geography (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF EQF Level 7 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Geography (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF EQF level 6 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Geography (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF EQF level 7 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
History (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF EQF Level 6 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
History (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • PhD
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF EQF Level 8 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Marine Science and Fisheries (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science in Marine Science and Fisheries
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Mass Communication (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF EQF Level 6 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Mass Communication (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master of Arts
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF EQF Level 7 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive
Mathematics (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions
Music and Musicology (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Arts
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF EQF Level 6 equivalent)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Natural Resource Economy (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor of Science
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.