📚 Dozens of Syrian Students Forced Out of Education After the Closure of Suweida University

As students across syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria return to universities, those who had enrolled in latest years at the University of damascus – Suweida branch – now find themselves in a difficult circumstances. The syrian/" class="auto-internal-link">syrian Ministry of Higher Education has yet to offer practical solutions or respond to their appeals. In fact, multiple students informed Syria TV that they were forced to drop out after being relocated from Suweida to their home provinces during the bloody events that shook the governorate, which led to the university’s indefinite closure. Additionally, mohammad al-Bandqaji, a third-year student in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Suweida, returned to Damascus in July and has been unable to continue his studies since the second semester of 2025 due to the university’s closure. “The ministry lives in a world completely detached from reality,” Mohammad informed Syria TV. “We can’t even enter Suweida to obtain the required documents for transferring.

And if we do, the university is devastated—there is no administrative staff or functioning equipment. ” as per the regulations of the Ministry of Higher Education, students are entitled to transfer from one university to another by submitting an official hosting request, which must include the dean’s approval and a certified transcript from the original university. However, these once-simple procedures have now become an impossible obstacle under the current security circumstances in Suweida. Mohammad tried to find a way out of this deadlock by contacting his faculty dean in Suweida, who verbally approved his transfer to Damascus University. But when he submitted the request to the student affairs office in Damascus, it was rejected because the “official documents were incomplete,” he stated. “We need realistic solutions.

It’s unreasonable to ask us to go to a dangerous area or to a half-destroyed university to fetch papers that don’t even exist,” Mohammad added. Students Caught Between Displacement and Neglect Mohammad’s story is far from unique — dozens of students from various provinces who had been studying in Suweida are now facing the same fate. Amjad al-Masri, a fourth-year agriculture student at Suweida University, is one of them. Indeed, he was forced to return to his family home in rural Damascus last June after the clashes that broke out in the city, finding himself suddenly excluded from the educational system.

Speaking to Syria TV, Amjad recounted his repeated visits to the student affairs offices at Damascus University, seeking an exception or special facilitation. Each time, however, he was met…