The University of Balamand (UOB; Arabic: جامعة البلمند) is a private institution, secular in its policies and approach to education.

It welcomes faculty, students, and staff from all faiths and national or ethnic origins.

Formerly conceived as just a project in the Koura District, it fused administratively with the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology to become a full-blown university.

The University of Balamand was founded by the Patriarch through the inspiration and endorsement of the Orthodox Antiochan committee, in which the concept formed between years 1983 and 1987, in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War.

As of 2014, the implementation of its Master Plan at the mount of long heritage, Balamand, proceeds steadily.