Jenin governorate was chosen to be the place for the main campus of AAUP since the northern part of the West Bank was missing a higher educational institution and especially because Jenin is located near the Arab cities and villages of the green line territories. And so, Arab American University was opened on September 28th, 2000 with a capital of 12 million $, with few students and one building which contained four faculties of which: the Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Sciences, the Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences and the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences.