Cairo University

Cairo University
جامعة القاهرة
Former names
Egyptian University
(1908-1940)
Fuad I University
(1940-1954)
Motto
التميز في التعليم الجامعي
Motto in English
Excellence in Higher Education.
TypePublic
Established1908; 116 years ago (1908)
FounderFuad I
(Most prominent)
Academic affiliation
UNIMED
AAU
AUF
PresidentMohamed Samy Abdel-Sadak
Academic staff
14,518+ (2024)
Students207,853+ (2024)
Location
Giza
,
Giza Governorate
,
Egypt

30°01′39″N 31°12′37″E / 30.02760°N 31.21014°E / 30.02760; 31.21014
CampusUrban
International Students6,963+ (2024)
MascotThoth
Websitecu.edu.eg/Home
(English version)
The university's main campus in Giza.

Cairo University (Arabic: جامعة القاهرة, romanized: Jāmiʿat 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.

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.

  1. ^ a b "Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of Engineering. http://www.eng.cu.edu.eg/CUFE/History/CairoUniversityShortNote/tabid/81/language/en-US/Default.aspx Archived 2014-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Cuno, Kenneth M. Review: Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt by Donald Malcolm Reid. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/368175 Archived 2023-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cairo University. The roots of Cairo University. Arabic language. http://cu.edu.eg/ar/page.php?pg=contentFront/SubSectionData.php&SubSectionId=29 Archived 2023-02-02 at the Wayback Machine English language. http://cu.edu.eg/page.php?pg=contentFront/SubSectionData.php&SubSectionId=29 Archived 2022-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Faculties of Cairo University". Archived from the original on 2023-05-23. Retrieved 2024-01-02.