Scientific Issues Treated in the Websites of Jordanian Universities Analytical study

With the spread of Internet the information is becoming available any time anywhere that produces a large quantity of information available to the user in an easy manner. This huge volume of information available is produced at the cost of information quality. The websites is considered the first interface from which the user can obtain the information, it is an information system that collects and distributes the information. This paper presents a survey of the content of Jordanian universities websites, the goal of this research is to explore how the universities websites can handle the scientific events like conferences, seminars...etc., to identify if the wide spread of information has influenced in the quality of content of Jordanian universities websites. And to show if the university website reflects the universities mission and objectives. Our research were based on the methodology of survey using content analysis style for 14 universities private and governmental, the questionnaire were composed on 21 variables that includes units and categories of analysis able to measure what is found, where is reviewed by a set of specialists reviewers. Our results show that there is a high competition between universities in making the university website more attractive for the user without taking in consideration the scientific content of the site.