The University established the Department of Planning and Follow-up to serve as the institutional framework for offering counsel and direction in everything that would enhance the university, develop its programs and projects, raise the level of services given, and produce a qualitative development of its course of work, in accordance with quick modern advances and on a coordinated scientific and technological basis that saves a lot of time, effort, and money.
The department was considered by the university as a method of discovering the most appropriate ways and means to use its available and possible resources to achieve the intended goals, defining courses of action at all levels and trends to combine and follow up efforts, formulating the university's general policies, identifying strategic objectives and ways to achieve and follow them, and directing his recommendations when making decisions
The department also collects, documents, and indexes all university information, statistics, records, and decisions. In addition to planning, the department is responsible for monitoring all stages of work at the university, which is an essential function of the planning process and aims to evaluate the achievements of work, plans, and programs, the extent to which they have achieved the goals and rate of achieving each goal, the opinion of the target students, faculty, and staff of educational programs, projects, and others, and to benefit from this data and information in future work.