The Refugee, Displaced persons and Forced Migration Studies center at Yarmouk University launched the intensive diploma program in refugee studies in collaboration with the Academy of Refugee Studies. It is a free intensive diploma that addresses issues of asylum around the world. This program includes several courses which are taught through a visual communication technology. Every course has two hours a week with a total of 16 hours of instruction.

 The lectures vary in addressing several topics. The most prominent ones are: a general introduction to the issue of asylum in the world, the international and regional organizations, their roles in serving the refugees and the impact of asylum socially, culturally, economically and psychologically. It also talks about refugee rights in the international law, international asylum agreements, as well as refugee issues between integration and the preservation of identity in conditions of social media, migration and asylum (the Middle East as a model).

Prof. Reem Al Kharouf, the Director of the Center for Refugee Studies, said that the program was the result of the partnership between the Center and the Academy of Refugee Studies. It is one of the executed projects from future project series which intended to be implemented.

Al-Kharouf added that the center aims at working to raise awareness on issues of asylum, displacement and forced migration between refugees and members of the host community. This is based on its strategic plan and consistent with the university's mission in serving community. The Center also aims at highlighting the most salient issues in these areas as a national and regional research reference that support decision makers and researchers.