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All You Need to Know about King Salman Int’l University in Egypt


Tue 17 Dec 2019 | 03:09 PM
Mai Shaheen

King Salman International University (KSIU) is the first integrated university to be established in South Sinai in Egypt, with an area of about 300 acres spread over three cities (Al-Tur, Sharm El-Sheikh, and Ras Sidr).

The university accommodates about 20 thousand and 500 students every year.

The construction works for the establishment of the university began in 2017 and are scheduled to be completed by March 2020.

The university includes in its first phase a total of 10 colleges, in addition to other five colleges in the future, as well as a college for medicine, along with a university hospital, which will be established within the main university branch campus in El-Tor city.

Facts about KSIU in Brief:

* King Salman University is a smart university and has a pioneering role either locally, regionally or globally in facilitating education and scientific research, serving the community, achieving high quality, excellence, advancement and enhancing sustainable economic and social development.

* The university would provide distinguished academic and professional approaches to prepare highly qualified human cadres compatible with the needs of the local, regional and international labor market.

It also aims at encouraging innovation and creativity, in addition to carrying out applied scientific research in light of enjoying active partnership with distinguished international universities and labor market institutions to provide training and employment opportunities for its graduates.

The university spreads knowledge to meet the needs of the society and sustainable development plans and links the same with industry in a flexible framework that allows continuous improvement and preserves societal values and ethics while keeping pace with scientific and technological development.

The university seeks to achieve the following strategic goals:

• Rehabilitating human cadres in various fields of basic and human sciences.

• Working to spread awareness among young people in all fields through carrying out applied scientific research that meets the needs of the local and international community.

• Enhancing continuous and effective development of the educational and research process and adopting clear policies to market the outcomes of its scientific research.

• Using information and communication technology to develop educational, research and administrative processes.

• Spreading awareness and introducing various local, regional and global issues.

• Attracting highly-qualified cadres worldwide to benefit from their experience in doing research.

Encouraging innovation and providing incentives required for producing advanced products that drive the national economy.

• Activating the dynamic relationship between education outcomes and labor market requirements.

• Enhancing the university’s role in producing and transferring knowledge and skills to serve the community and achieve the highest levels of academic excellence.

The university strives to achieve its mission though adopting a set of core values that express its internal identity and add a lot to its distinctive message.

* The university colleges are pided into three branches:

Al-Tur city includes 7 colleges:

Faculty of Engineering

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Faculty of Technological Industries

Faculty of Science

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Pharmacy

Faculty of Nursing.

• Ras Sidr includes 4 colleges:

Faculty of Community Sciences

Faculty of Administrative Sciences

Faculty of Desert Agriculture

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

• Sharm El-Sheikh includes 5 colleges:

Faculty of Al-Alsun

Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality

Architecture Faculty

Faculty of Media Production

Faculty of Art and Design

Contributed by Hassanain Tayea