The University of Balamand is a private, secular university located at El-Koura, Lebanon. It was founded by the Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch in 1988. The university's main campus is adjacent to Balamand Monastery, but it has two other campuses in Beirut: One is in Sin el-Fil, which houses the majority of the faculty for fine arts, and the other is neighbouring Saint George Hospital in Achrafieh, which houses the faculty for medicine and medical sciences.

Formerly, it was a project at the El-Koura district, which North Lebanon’s department came to continue an inter cultural message in 1988, and to fuse under its administration the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology.
The University of Balamand was founded by the Patriarch Ignatius IV Greek Orthodox, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East through the concept of a kouranian engineer; Elias Abi Shaheen, in which the concept formed between years 1983 and 1987, during the Lebanese Civil War. The project started soon after the Governmental Clearance in 1988.