Cairo University
Public university in Giza, Egypt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cairo University (Arabic: جامعة القاهرة, romanized: Jāmiʿa al-Qāhira) is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;[1] after being housed in various parts of Cairo, its faculties, beginning with the Faculty of Arts, were established on its current main campus in Giza in October 1929.
جامعة القاهرة | |
Former names | Egyptian University Fuad I University |
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Type | Public |
Established | 1908; 116 years ago (1908) |
Academic affiliation | UNIMED |
President | Mohammed Othman Al Khasht |
Administrative staff | 12,158 |
Students | 231,590 |
Location | , , 30.02760°N 31.21014°E / 30.02760; 31.21014 |
Campus | Urban |
Website | cu |
The university was known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952. The university is the second oldest institution of higher education in Egypt after Al-Azhar University, notwithstanding the pre-existing higher professional schools that later became constituent colleges of the university.
The university was founded and funded as the Egyptian University by a committee of private citizens with royal patronage in 1908 and became a state institution under King Fuad I in 1925.[2] In 1940, four years following his death, the university was renamed King Fuad I University in his honor. It was renamed a second time after the 1952 Egyptian Revolution.[1] The university currently enrolls approximately 155,000 students in 20 faculties and 3 institutions.[3][4] It counts three Nobel Laureates among its graduates and is one of the 50 largest institutions of higher education in the world by enrollment.