Alexandria University ( ar, جامعة الإسكندرية) is a public university in

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an independent entity in 1942. It was known as Farouk University until the

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

when its name was changed to the University of Alexandria. Taha Hussein was the founding

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of Alexandria University. It is now the second largest university in Egypt and has many affiliations to various universities for ongoing

research Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...

. Alexandria University is one of the largest universities in Egypt, and the third university established after Cairo University and the American University in Cairo. Alexandria University has 21 faculties and 3 institutes that teach different types of social, medical, engineering, mathematics and other science. The university had other branches in Egypt outside Alexandria in Damanhour and Matrouh which later became two independent universities. and International Branch in

New Borg El Arab New Borg El Arab ( ar, برج العرب الجديدة ' is a new Egyptian city of the first generation, located in Alexandria Governorate, and administratively affiliated to the New Urban Communities Authority. It was established by decree of ...

city. Other branches have been set up outside Egypt in Juba, South Sudan, and in N'Djamena, the capital of the Republic of Chad.

Administration

* Abdelaziz Konsowa, president of Alexandria University * Ashraf Elghandour, vice president for graduate studies and research * Wael Nabil, vice president for education and student affairs * Mohamed Abdel Azim Aboul Naga, vice president for community service and environmental development

Faculties

At the time it became an independent institution in 1942, it had the following faculties: * Faculty of Agriculture * Faculty of Medicine (1942) * Faculty of Arts (1938) * Faculty of Commerce * Faculty of Engineering (1941) * Faculty of Law (1938) * Faculty of Science (1942) In 1989, four faculties, located in Alexandria and administered by Helwan University, were annexed to Alexandria University. These are the faculties of

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

, fine arts,

physical education Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys Ed. or P.E., is a subject taught in schools around the world. It is usually taught during primary and secondary education, and encourages psychomotor learning by using a play and movement explorat ...

for boys and physical education for girls. Alexandria University now holds 24 faculties and institutes as follows: * Faculty of Arts (1938) * Faculty of Law (1938) * Faculty of Commerce (1942) * Faculty of Engineering (1942) * Faculty of Science (1942) * Faculty of Agriculture (1942) * Faculty of Medicine (1942) * Faculty of Pharmacy (1947) * Faculty of Nursing (1954) * Faculty of Physical Education for Girls (1954) * Faculty of Physical Education for Boys (1955) * High Institute of Public Health (1956) * Faculty of Fine Arts (1957) * Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha) (1959) * Faculty of Education (1966) * Faculty of Dentistry (1970) * Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (1972) * Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1975) * Institute of Medical Research (1975) * Faculty of Tourism and Hotels (1982) * Faculty of Specific Education (1988) * Faculty of Education for Early Childhood (1989) * Faculty of Economic Studies & Political Science (2014) * Faculty of Computing and Data Science (2019)

Branches

Alexandria University also opened branches inside Egypt and African and Middle Eastern countries: * Chad branch (2010) * South Sudan branch (2014) * International Branch in

city (2019) * Alexandria National University (2021) * Iraq branch

Notable alumni and faculty

* Azer Bestavros (Faculty of Engineering, 1984) – Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, US *

Mervat Seif el-Din Mervat Seif el-Din, Arabic: ميرفت سيف الدين (born 1954) is a classical archaeologist from Egypt, who was Director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria from 2004 to 2010. A specialist in the archaeology of Alexandria, el-Din is an ...

– classical archaeologist and egyptologist, former director of the

Graeco-Roman Museum The Graeco-Roman Museum is an archaeological museum located in Alexandria, Egypt. History Erected in 1892, it was first built in a five-room apartment, inside one small building on Rosetta Street (later Avenue Canope and now Horriya). In 1895, ...

* Mostafa El-Abbadi – professor and historian *

Mohamed Hashish Mohamed Hashish (born May 22, 1947) is an Egyptian-born research scientist best known as the father of the abrasive water jet cutter. Youth and schooling Mohamed Hashish was born in Alexandria, Egypt to Ahmed Hashish and Zeinab Amin. Mohamed ...

(Faculty of Engineering) – research scientist best known as the father of the abrasive water jet cutter *

Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab was an Egyptian gastro-intestinal surgeon. He is known for the description of his operation Hassab's decongestion operation for the treatment of oesophageal varices as a result of portal hypertension Portal hypert ...

(1913–2000) – professor of gastro-intestinal surgery; creator of surgical procedure known as

Hassab's decongestion operation Hassab's decongestion operation is an elective surgical procedure to treat esophageal varices in patients with portal hypertension as a result of cirrhosis of the liver. It was created by Dr. Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab, a professor of surgery at ...

Mo Ibrahim Mohammed "Mo" Ibrahim ( ar, محمد إبراهيم; born 3 May 1946) is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone s ...

(Faculty of Engineering) – Sudanese-British mobile communications entrepreneur and billionaire *

Yahya El Mashad Yahya El Mashad ( ar, يحيى المشد; 1932 – 14 June 1980) was an Egyptian nuclear scientist who headed the Iraqi nuclear program. He was killed in a Paris hotel room in June 1980, in an operation generally attributed to the Mossad. Ear ...

(Faculty of Engineering, 1952) – Egyptian nuclear physicist *

Rebecca Joshua Okwaci Rebecca Joshua Okwaci is a South Sudanese politician, and a member of Parliament and the Chief Whip of the Ruling SPLM Party in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly as of 2022. She was the former Minister of Telecommunications and Postal ...

(English language, literature, and translation) – South Sudanese politician, and the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services in the Government of the Republic of South Sudan *

Tawfiq Saleh Tewfik Saleh ( ar, توفيق صالح) was an Egyptian film director and writer. His name has also been written as Tawfik Saleh and Tewfiq Salah. Biography Saleh was born on 27 October 1926, in Alexandria. Although his father was against his in ...

(English literature, 1949) – film director * Boshra Salem – professor, founder and the Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences * William Linn Westermann (Visiting Professor 1948) – American papyrologist * Magdy Younes – Canadian physician, medical researcher and academic * Moustafa Youssef (Faculty of Engineering, 1997) – Egyptian computer scientist and engineer. First and only ACM fellow in the Middle East and Africa. *

Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistr ...

(Faculty of Science, 1967) – Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1999

Ranking

Alexandria University was ranked 147th worldwide based on Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2010–2011. The 2010 rankings were controversial, as a single

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's practice of publishing a great number of articles in a journal of which he himself was the editor was identified as a crucial contributing factor for the high rating of Alexandria University.Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings
''The New York Times'' 14 November 2010. Alexandria University is ranked 1001+ worldwide based on Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2020. Alexandria University is ranked 801-1000+ worldwide based on QS World University Rankings 2021. It is ranked 701-800 worldwide and 2nd in Egypt based on Shanghai ranking 2020.

References

External links

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