The President of University of Petra, Prof. Rami Abdel-Rahem, announced that the university will start receiving applications to register in the Faculty of Dentistry at UOP in the beginning of the First Semester of the Academic Year 2023/2024. Prof. Abdel-Rahem handed out the graduation certificates to six hundred and sixty graduates, and congratulated them for their achievement.

In his speech during the Second Semester students' Graduation Ceremony of the Academic Year 2022/2023, the Green Flat on campus, Prof. Abdel-Rahem said: "Our university will include a medical college by establishing the Faculty of Dentistry after obtaining the approval of the Council of Higher Education. Thus, teaching in this college will start at the beginning of the first semester of next year, hopefully."

He confirmed that: "Every year, the graduation ceremony has become a date to meet you, to assess the achievements and challenges of a past phase. On the one hand, we seek excellence through the preparation of distinguished graduates who carry the vision and noble values of the university. On the other hand, we face many challenges posed by the accelerating developments in the world, which has turned everything into a virtual form. Consequently, this makes us stand on the threshold of a new stage to reconsider our disciplines and study plans, our teaching methods, and our administrative and academic procedures." Prof. Abdel-Rahem added, "You have been inspired by the fountain of knowledge in this university and have been equipped with the skills and competencies that qualify you to enter the labor market. Join those who preceded you and write the success stories that are our most precious asset, and share the University's values of learning for knowledge, respect for diversity, pluralism and other opinion, commitment to justice and social responsibility, leadership development, accountability and accountability."

UOP President congratulated the parents of the graduates and said: "We congratulate you for the graduation of your sons and daughters in their various disciplines, and here comes the long-awaited moment that proves, to you and to the whole society, the success of your educational project; If your children have obtained their professional scientific degrees that meet their wishes and open up opportunities for future stages, we wish them a bright future full of achievement and success. We congratulate you for their graduation who will be crowned today with the science and knowledge, the crown of Petra University that brings with it pride and pride and honour."

On behalf of the graduates, student Sarah Kifah said in her speech: "Here are the moments we have waited for so long since we entered this great edifice of knowledge, University of Petra, which witnessed our progress and successes, and sometimes our pitfalls. These pitfalls which we turned into a milestone step in the path of our success. How fast time has passed! It feels like yesterday since we joined our college we love, carrying our passion and hope. Today we are leaving it, holding the graduation certificate that we have done our best to obtain. The path to success was not full of roses, it was not an easy path to take, but at the same time, we knew it was not impossible, the impossible was not a word in the dictionary of the students of Petra, and will not be."

Sarah, the graduates' representative, also thanked the university, its professors and the parents of the graduates for their support, and congratulated her colleagues on their graduation. She added: "Fathers and mothers, I can feel your breath sweeping my soul and the whole place; you have dreamt of this day, where you see your sons and daughters here, in this location, I see your eyes sparkling with tears of joy, pride, and sense what you are feeling right now, the feeling that thousands of words cannot express."

The graduation ceremony included a presentation of success stories of the university graduates in which they presented their experience from working life in the labour market. One of which is that of Engineer Yasmine Al-Saudi of UOP Faculty of Architecture and Design. She looked back at her graduation and career life after graduating from the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University. She worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Architecture for a year. She was awarded a Master's Degree in the specialization of Sustainable Design from the University of Brighton in the UK. Eng. Al-Saudi has also participated in several research projects funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at the University of Petra as well as from third parties, such as the Khalidi Newton Scholarship. The research main focus was on the use of local environment-friendly materials and studying the impact of the indoor environment on students in educational buildings. The results of these research have been presented at several international conferences and published in international journals. At the same time, Eng. Al-Saudi has been able to provide support to its students to achieve many international and local achievements and awards, such as: First place in the Architectural Excellence Award competition, and several awards in different competitions.

Followed by Eng. Al-Saudi, UOP also hosted the Jordan Radio and Television Corporation presenter, Hazem Rahleh, as another graduate success story. Rahahleh addressed the graduates and said: "Since I graduated from the University of Petra in 2004 until this moment, I am proud always to meet a graduate of the University of Petra, seeing the level of success he/she has reached in different fields of study, research, teaching or in the jobs in their own field of work, which is the result of the impact University of Petra has had on its graduates in terms of science, knowledge, culture, and skill. I am talking to you today about years of education and science that I started from school days to the university level. It had the greatest impact on my field of work, in the media world, working with a very good number of colleagues whom I had the pleasure and pride to be with at the Jordan Radio and Television Corporation."

The graduation ceremony included the quotation of words about the University of Petra received by Chairman of the Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities (ASIC), Dr. Maurice Demmok during his visit to the University of Petra in the second semester of this year, which stated: "During my first visit, not only to the university, but also my first visit to Jordan, I was very impressed by what I saw at University of Petra. All the equipment used at the university is compatible with industry standards and are important in teaching the practical part of students, which develops their skills and qualifies them to engage in the labour market. The studios and equipment of the Faculty of Media at University of Petra have exactly the same as those in the UK or the US. The university has a distinguished center for creativity and leadership, and some of its projects mimic the future; the university is unique in its interest in sustainability, environment, inclusiveness, and diversity. All the faculty members at the university here have high qualifications of degrees, they are qualified professors, researchers and lecturers who pay great attention to their students. University of Petra is constantly growing, has a clear vision and great flexibility in keeping up with developments, and a great interest in students and staff. All of this is at the service of the educational process. Therefore, I can see a very bright future for University of Petra, and I really believe that this university will be a leader not only for universities in Jordan, but also for universities in the Middle East and the world."​​