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University of Algiers
Extracted from the Wikipedia article University of Algiers 1.
French colonialism, 1830–1962
In 1909, these Superior Schools were turned into the Faculties of Letters, Law, Medicine and Pharmacy, and Sciences. Soon after, in the same year, the faculties were united to form the University of Algiers. With this change, the University of Algiers became the only colonial French higher education institution on par with a metropolitan universities.