On 19th May, 2020, Mr Wael Ayoub Salloum was awarded the Doctorate Degree in Business Administration (DBA) by the Faculty of Business Administration at Beirut Arab University, on successful presentation of his final thesis entitled “The Influence of Students’ Satisfaction on the Intention of Retention: A Case Study of a Private University in Lebanon”.

The Defense Examination Committee consisted of his supervisor Prof Khaled Housseiny (Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the University of Portsmouth, England), Prof Nehale Mostafa (Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at Beirut Arab University), Dr. Abdallah Nassereddine (Associate Prof of Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration at Beirut Arab University), Prof Andre Azouri (Dean, International School of Business at Modern University for Business and Science), and Prof. Pierre Khoury (Vice President for Development at the Lebanese German University).