Cairo University
جامعة القاهرة Gāmaʿat al-Qāhirah | |
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Former names | Egyptian University Fuʾād I University |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1908 |
| President | Prof. Dr. Hossam Mohamed Kamel |
Academic staff | 12,158 |
| Students | 200,000 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.cu.edu.eg/ |
Cairo University (Arabic: جامعة القاهرة, previously Egyptian University and later Fuad University) is an institute of higher education located in Giza, Egypt. Cairo University includes a School of Law and a School of Medicine. The Medical School, also known as Kasr Alaini (القصر العيني, Qasr-el-'Ayni), was one of the first medical schools in Africa and the Middle East. Its first building was donated by Alaini Pasha. It has since undergone extensive expansion.
History
The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought. Several constituent colleges preceded the establishment of the university including the College of Engineering (كلية الهندسة) in 1816, which was shut down by Muhammad Said Pasha in 1854. Cairo University was founded as a European-inspired civil university, in contrast to the religious university of al-Azhar, and became the prime indigenous model for other state universities in the region.
The first president of Cairo University, then known as the Egyptian University, was Professor Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed.
Faculties and branches
- The Faculty of Sciences
- The Faculty of Agriculture
- The Faculty of Archaeology
- The Faculty of Arts
- The Faculty of Commerce
- The Faculty of Computer and Information Science
- The Faculty of Dar El-Ulum
- The Faculty of Oral Dental Medicine
- The Faculty of Economics and Political Science
- The Faculty of Engineering
- The Faculty of Law
- The Faculty of Mass Communications
- The Faculty of Medicine
- The Faculty of Pharmacology
- The Faculty of Physiotherapy
- The Faculty of Regional and Urban Planning
- The Faculty of Science
- The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Rankings
According to the 2007 Academic ranking for World Universities (ARWU), published by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Cairo University is ranked 1st in Egypt and one of the Top 500 World Universities. [1]
According to the 2008 Webometrics World Universities rankings, Cairo University is ranked 2nd in Egypt and 10th in Africa.[2] This ranking is based on webometrics (i.e. the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the Web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches, Webometrics) and it is academic.
Notable Alumni
Yasser Arafat: was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize, graduated from Faculty of Engineering.
Naguib Mahfouz: was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He studied philosophy, graduating in 1934.
Ahmed Nazif: served as the Prime Minister of Egypt since 14 July 2004. He graduated from Faculty of Engineering.
See also
- Education in Egypt
- Egyptian universities
- List of Egyptian universities
- Mediterra
- Cairo University alumni
- IEEE CUSB