The Artistic Festival Committee accompanying the University Students Week activities implemented several artistic and theatrical activities starting from the academic year 2017. During the activities of the ninth University Students Week, an artistic group was formed including university students interested in invocation, arts and theater. However, at the end of the concluding activities of the ninth week, general artistic activities were suspended due to the Corona pandemic.

The Students Affairs Deputyship organizes a program of cultural and awareness lectures annually for male and female university students, to discuss the problems that our society suffers from, to try to create public awareness of those matters, and propose solutions to those issues. These issues include qat and drug problems, and dangerous diseases such as AIDS and cancer of all kinds etc. Specialists in government institutions and civil society organizations interested in these matters are sought for to assist in discussing and creating the awareness required. Moreover, stories and poetry morning sessions and other cultural activities implemented in the university colleges and university residences are organized and implemented.

A committee was formed to lead all the sports and scouting activities implemented by the Students Affairs Deputyship at the university, and during the past period, a group of activities have been implemented that have become a mandatory tradition that we are committed to implement so as to highlight the talents of our male and female students in various sports games.

The following have been organized:

1. The annual league for colleges in various sports for both genders (male and female students).

2. Yemeni Universities’ League in various sports once every two years, and in the academic year 2018, the first version of this league was organized with the participation of five (5) universities in addition to Hadhramout University. Moreover, the second version of this league had been planned had it not been for the political events and the Corona pandemic that halted our efforts in the establishment of the 2020 League for volleyball for female university students.

University Student’s Week is held every year in March and April. The activities of this week are led by a fixed committee headed by the Vice Rector. Its activities vary between sports, scouting, artistic and creative activities, in which most male and female university students participate. It extends for more than a month, but it is symbolically called (University Student’s Week). Within the course of this event, a scientific exhibition to showcase students’ scientific production and creativity is held once every two years.

This conference is held annually under the motto (University Students in Development Service) and is led by a committee headed by Dr. Khaled Awadh Al-Rabaki. This committee accomplished the seventh edition of this conference in 2022 with great success. In this event, the participation of students’ graduation projects and research from the academic departments of the university’s colleges are presented. Over the course of three days, students present their research to defend their research before the examination panels in two main pivots:

1. Natural and Applied Sciences.
2. Humanities and Social Sciences.

First and second place winners from each group are awarded cash prizes and certificates of excellence, in addition to nominating the winning research for external participation in the Creative Student Forum of the Arab Council for Training Arab University Students.

The Student Affairs Deputyship has established an annual tradition that is launched in the fields of creativity and various arts to enable our students – especially talented students – to show their creativity and talents, and compete with their colleagues for the awards offered by the university, at a rate of three (3) awards in each of the following fields:

1. Memorizing the Holy Quran (University’s Holy Quran Memorizer Award)
2. Memorizing the Noble Hadith (University’s Hadith Memorizer Award)
3. Arabic Poetry Competition (University’s Poet Award)
4. Invocation Competition (University’s Vocalist Award)
5. Radio Recital Competition (University’s Broadcaster Award)
6. Photography Competition (University’s Photographer Award)
7. Short Film Making Competition (University’s Filmmaker Award)
8. Fine Arts Competition (Drawing) (University’s Painter Award)
9. Fine Arts Competition (Sculpting) (University’s Artist Award)
10. Arabic Calligraphy Competition (University’s Calligrapher Award)
11. Short Story Competition (University’s Storyteller Award)
12. University’s Architect Competition (University’s Architect Award)

Since 2019, two awards have been added for the best idea in charitable benefit and community service, and three (3) prizes are awarded in each competition for the first, second and third places.

The Awards Committee, headed by Dr. Salem Aboud Ghanem, completed the fourth edition of this annual competition in 2020, which was launched in 2017, and the number of participating students reached more than two thousand (2000) male and female students.

The Students Affairs Deputyship has been holding the Creative Scientific Exhibition as part of the University Student Week program once every two years; to highlight the creativity and outputs of our students in various aspects, in which colleges compete to win the award (Exhibition’s Best Wing). This event is led by a permanent committee headed by Prof. Salem Farag Bamasood.