Geography has no longer been traditional and theoretical as it was in the past centuries, but has become a vital science that depends mainly on a group of information technologies with a spatial dimension. Geographic information systems are considered one of the most important of those technologies that are widely used all over the world. The proposed program mainly concentrates on this technology in addition to addressing other technologies such as remote sensing and geographic positioning systems. Basically, there was a need to move from theory to practice to serve the development of contemporary societies and that resulted in the idea of establishing the Applied Geography Program at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Al al-Bayt University.​​​​