• To disseminate proper and authentic Islamic knowledge based on the principles of Ahlus-Sunnah Wal-Jama’ah.
• Qualifying the Imams to work in the western societies and enhancing them with the academic, technical and linguistic skills necessary to shoulder their responsibility in those countries as perfectly as they can.
• To spread Islamic and Arabic education and make it readily available to those seeking it wherever they are, using the latest technological means of communication and information sharing.
• To properly introduce Islam and Islamic civilization through communication channels conceived with different universities, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies centers in the United States and Europe. 
• Conducting and supervising research that aims to comprehend and formulate the recent cultural developments from an Islamic perspective.
• Linking the academic programs to the persistent issues of the society according to the requirements of the age.
• Paying attention to the fiqh of reality and fiqh of novel events (an-nawazil), and finding solutions in light of Islamic Shar’ia.
• Qualifying distinguished cadres for shouldering the responsibility of the call for the cause of Allah and conveying the Islamic knowledge to others.
• Developing the academic capabilities and skills of students through research and training programs.

• Taking advantage of the huge technological leap in methods of communication and in information technology.
• Organizing unique academic curricula by an elite group of reputable well-qualified scholars from various specialties, based on internationally recognized systematic methods.
• Providing educational programs that will be presented using technically advanced educational and communication methods such as the satellite channels, internet, and video conferencing.
• Providing a distinguished team of instructors, comprising many esteemed and specialized instructors who are currently teaching at the best Arabic, Islamic, and western universities, who will act as a great resource for this endeavor.
• Making the best use of the directors of this project who have obtained a great deal of experience in relating to people of other cultures.

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• A diploma in Linguistic Qualifying of non-Arabic speakers.
• M.A. in qualifying teachers of Arabic for non-Arabic speakers.

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• Islamic Economics offers the degrees of B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic Economics.

• To prepare and develop the academic curricula.
• To write and translate material for the academic programs.
• To prepare the SAA books using a unique method to prepare and produce its books, based on internationally recognized measures for the development of teaching materials.
• To prepare teaching materials relying on diverse and comprehensive teaching media in order to accomplish academic objectives, including audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, computer software, etc. These will be used in addition to traditional teaching media, such as transparencies, microfiche, boards, maps, etc.
• To prepare research papers and studies related to issues concerning Muslims and Arabs living in non-Muslim countries and strengthening the links between them and the East.

• To broadcast academic lectures using video teleconferencing. This will allow the students and teachers to be directly connected with each other.
• To broadcast academic lectures using satellite channels, based on preset times that will be announced by the satellite channels as well as on the SAA website, to reach students wherever they are living.
• To broadcast lectures through the internet allowing students to download lectures so they can be retrieved at any time.
• To receive inquiries from students through the internet, forwarding them to the relevant teacher for a response.
• To provide chat rooms through the internet to enable students to communicate with each other about their courses.
• To provide students with access to their examination results.
• To provide an up-to-date student progress report at any time, showing all the completed courses with dates and grades, currently registered courses, and courses required to complete to graduate from the program.
• To relay news about all programs and activities relating to SAA.

• To conduct training courses in different academic and cultural fields, through co-ordination with cultural institutions and Islamic centers throughout the world.
• To build bridges of co-operation with western universities through joint seminars and debates, clarifying misunderstood issues related to the Arab and Muslim nation.
• To invite students and teachers from western universities to cultural seminars about Islam and discussions about the contributions made by Islamic scholars towards civilization.

• To organize collective meetings with new students and direct programs to advise them.
• To monitor the process of assigning student groups to their faculty advisors and the implementation of advisory programs specific to each group.
• To identify the outstanding students and run special programs for them, as decided by the board.
• To prepare lists of the students who qualify for a place on the honor roll and identify the top ranking students in every department.
• To determine the under-performing students and organize specific programs for them, as decided by the board.
• To determine those seeking scholarships and organize specific programs for them as decided by the board.
• To organize collective student advisory programs for the whole student body in line with other student activities based on the board decisions.
• To offer individual student interviews for those who require them, studying their cases, and referring them to concerned parties when necessary, preparing the necessary reports pertaining to the case.
• To provide recommendations in cases of transfer, changes in majors, deferment of study, or those referred by the dean.

• High school diploma or its equivalent or a university degree from one of the universities accredited by SAA for those applying for graduate studies.
• Submitted documents by applicants must be certified.
• Letters of certificate for official missions' students or scholarships.
• Students cannot study in more than one program at a time.
• Admissions and registrations are defined by SAA's policy and available majors needed for the community service.

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1. A completed application form
2. The original high school diploma or a certified copy thereof
3. A copy of ID or passport.
4. Four recent personal photos.

1. Direct registration: by direct contact at Students’ Affairs Office at SAA.
2. Internet registration: by completing the registration forms on SAA's website as well as mailing the required documents.
3. Mail-in registration: by requesting SAA registration forms by mail and sending them back by mail after completion.

• Registration fees are paid by all students to SAA on registration for one time every new account, and it is not repaid unless the student is again enrolled after being dismissed.
• This Admission fees can be refunded if the student did not register for any course during the current semester.
• The admission fees are not refundable in case of registering for any course, or in case the next semester starts without registering for any course

1. Students pay the proper tuition fees on registration by cash, money order, or bank transfer, credit cards, or checks payable to SAA.
2. Students can be fully refunded for their tuition fees within two weeks of the starting date.
3. Students will be refunded 50% of their tuition fees if they withdraw after two weeks from the registration deadline.
4. A failing student pays again fully for his failed subject(s).
5. In case a student wishes to skip some subjects, he should notify the Students’ Office within two weeks from start of classes, and the tuition fees will be deposited for his future study at SAA.

 NB. If a student fails in a subject, he is given another chance to be examined in this subject at the beginning of next semester. However, if he fails again, exam fees of $30 are paid in return for that given chance and are similarly repaid for failing in any further chance.

1. The first top student of SAA is exempted of 50% from tuition fees in each subject. This bonus continues as long as he keeps his supremacy.
2. The second top student of SAA is exempted of 25% from tuition fees in each subject. This bonus continues as long as he keeps his supremacy.
3. One of two siblings studying at SAA is exempted of 20% of tuition fees.

The Visiting Student: is the student who studies some courses which are included in his majors in another university or in another branch of SAA. He is treated as a regular student, upon the following rules:

1. A student who studies some subjects in any branch of SAA, due to family or career circumstances, is a regular student, upon the following rules:

   Completing the application form for studying at SAA branch and submitting it to Students Affairs Office. Continuing his study in the same majoring. Tuition fees are paid as set by the branch he is study-visiting. The visiting term is counted from the start of the next semester

2. A student who studies some subjects in another university, is a regular student, upon the following rules:

   The university in which he is studying is recognized by SAA. The subjects he studied outside SAA must be equivalent to those at SAA. The maximum of subjects a visiting student can take is determined by SAA equivalence committee. These subjects are included in the visiting student’s academic record and his accumulative average

1. SAA applies credit hours system, as defined by each major.
2. The academic study year is divided into three semesters.
3. The academic study can be one full year, and students take the exams for one time at the end of the year.
4. A student is required for obtaining B. A. degree to pass successfully all credit hours.
5. There are some subjects which are considered by SAA as general requirements that must be studied by all students in all majors for one time. Students, who studied them already, are exempted from studying them again. They are:

   No.	Subject	Hours	Code
   1	Introduction to Islamic Culture	3	ACV101
   2	History of Latin America	3	AHS101
   3	A Foreign Language	3	AIT101

6. Subjects of study are defined in each semester by its department.
7. A student is required, for passing from one semester to the next, to pass 80% of total of his subjects.
8. Students failing in one subject or more are required to immediately sit for another exam in the next semester.
9. A student can add or skip any subject within 2 weeks maximum from start of the semester.
10. A visiting student who is studying at another university recognized by SAA is considered a regular student at SAA, upon the defined rules.

1. Providing SAA with his academic script list of the subjects he studied at the university or college from which he wishes to transfer to SAA.
2. The subjects that the student wishes to equalize must be equivalent to those at SAA.
3. The credit hours that the student wishes to study at SAA must not be less than 50% of the total hours for graduation, and SAA may reduce that percentage in some exceptional cases.
4. The student shall fill out a transfer application and submit it to the department of Students' Affairs.
5. Committee of equivalence reviews the applications and compares other universities' curricula to that of the SAA before issuing its decision.

1. A student may defer from study with acceptable excuse(s) for no more than 3 consecutive semesters in total, or the equivalent of one full academic year, or 6 separated semesters, by completing the proper form available at Students Affairs Office, within two weeks from start of study.
2. The department council reviews the deferment application form(s) in its first meeting, and presents the matter(s) to the college council to take the proper decision.
3. A student has the right to apply for deferring from study only after studying at least for one semester.
4. A $30 Fee is paid for a deferment of any subject to another semester
   Break off study:

A student is considered disjoined off study in case he fails to register for the semester at the fixed time without a compulsory excuse accepted by SAA.

1. In case a student breaks off study for 3 consecutive or 6 separated semesters without an acceptable excuse.
2. In case a student fails frequently in more than two subjects for 3 consecutive semesters, and the students’ advisor recommends canceling his enrollment.
3. Breaking educational regulations and violating rules of decorum and conduct.

1. The cancellation of enrollment must not be due to breaking educational regulations or violating rules of decorum and conduct.
2. He must apply for resumption of enrollment within four semesters at maximum from the date of cancellation.
3. If the period exceeds four semesters, he is treated as a new student, without resuming his former academic record, and all admission requirements apply on him by then.

• At the end of each semester written exams are held with duration of 3 hours for each subject.
• In one full year study system, students take written exams at the end of the year in all subjects with exam duration of 3 hours for each subject.
• The college council may include, upon a recommendation presented by the department council, practical or oral examination(s) in the final examination(s) of any subject, and the marks are included into the examination(s) final marks.
• SAA may determine the exams schedules according to defined rules.
• In case a student fails to sit for examination(s) for a compulsory excuse accepted by SAA, he has the full right to sit for it in the next semester.
• A student who attains the “Honors Degree” must score “Excellent” or “Very Good” grade in his accumulative average.

1. A student graduates from SAA if he successfully passes all subjects in his major.
2. A student who passes the exams is granted a documented certificate, upon a decision issued by the SAA Council, in two languages: Arabic and Spanish.
3. He may apply for obtaining his certificate in English or any other language.
4. SAA may issue students official detailed academic script of all studied subjects.

• Direct Application: Students can physically go to the Division of Student Affairs in the academy of interest and submit all the application requirements.
• Online Registration: Students can download application forms from the Academy web site, complete the form, then send the application requirements by e-mail to the academy of interest.
• Registration by Mail: Students can request application forms through the mail, complete the forms, and then send the application requirements by mail to the physical address of the academy of interest. In this case special attention must be paid to the accuracy of all the submitted information.

• The Academy relies on a system of credit hours, as determined by each major.
• The academic year is divided into three semesters (fall, spring, and summer).
• To obtain a Bachelors degree, a student must enroll in a minimum of 12 academic semesters.
• The committee within each department determines the courses to be offered in each academic semester.
• In some majors students are required to choose elective courses in addition to the core required courses.
• To precede to the next semester students must pass at least 80% of all required courses.
• The education at the Sharia Academy of America will be obtained through physical attendance or other branches of the Academy.
• The Academy also offers a program of open learning using the latest forms of educational technology, such as video tonferencing. This allows students and teachers to be directly connected and have live discussions and question sessions. The Academy also uses broadcasting through satellite channels and its internet site allows students to forward inquiries and discussions during and after the broadcast.
• This method of open education does not rely on one-way communication, but rather on effective long-distance interaction between the student and the instructor, as well as periodic on campus meetings between students and teachers in the Academy lecture halls.

• Anyone not attending an officially announced exam during the semester will receive a zero mark for that exam, unless the student faced a problem beyond his/her control or had a medical reason for the absence.
• Anyone not attending an officially announced exam during the semester for medical reasons or uncontrollable hardship must submit proof within a week of the subsidence of the excuse. The academy committee will then make suitable arrangements for the student to have a make-up exam.
• Final grades for any courses will not be considered for re-adjustment. Exceptional cases must be justified by the subject teacher and the details forwarded in writing to the dean within a week of the release of the grades for the case to be presented to the academy committee. The dean must inform the Academic Affairs Unit of the decision issued by the committee within a maximum period of one week after it has been issued.
• The minimum acceptable passing grade at the Bachelors level, for any course, is 50%, while for advanced degrees it is 60%. Grades are characterized as follows:

  Bachelors	Graduate Degrees
  Grade Range Category 90-100 % Excellent 89-80 % Very Good 79-65 % Good 64-50 % Acceptable Less than 50% Fail	Grade Range Category 90-100 % Excellent 89-80 % Very Good 79-70 % Good 69-60 % Acceptable Less than 60% Fail

• The student completes assignments given by the teacher.
• The student prepares reports for some of the required academic subjects.

• Completion of a written exam for all the academic courses taken during the semester.
• Participation in an oral exam for some courses, as determined by the Academy Committee. This will account for 20% of the course grade.
• In the courses requiring a research paper, this will account for 20% of the course grade.
• The final grade for the course will be determined by the sum of the written exam, oral exam, and the grade of the research paper.

• Islamic and Arabic Studies

• Arabic for non-Natives
• Islamic Economics

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Students willing to obtain certificates compatible with those offered by Al Azhar University shall study the following remedial courses in the counterpart majors: