In its first year, 1988, the University of Balamand had only three Faculties - the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, the Académie libanaise des beaux arts, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. From three Faculties, the University has grown and developed to include nine: Académie libanaise des beaux-arts (Sin al-Fil campus and Balamand campus), Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Business and Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, the Saint George’s Faculty of Post Graduate Medical Education (the last two Faculties are located in the Saint George’s Health Complex in Achrafieh, Beirut). The latest is the Faculty of Medicine & Medical Sciences which was established in 2000.
The language of instruction in the various Faculties is as follows:
Most faculty members are holders of a Ph. D. degree and serve on full time basis. Faculty members come from Lebanon, the Arab East, Europe and North America. UoB also hosts a number of professors spending their sabbatical year in Lebanon in order to pursue their research and give lectures in their areas of expertise. UoB faculty members also take part in the many scholarly artistic and cultural activities on Campus.