Cairo University Makes Significant Progress in QS Ranking

A new success certificate for Cairo University…we work for digital transformation to reach the “non-paper” work system

By: Wafaa Fayez

CAIRO, Mar. 19 (SEE)- Cairo University has made significant progress in the QS ranking for the best universities in the world at the academic level for the year 2019. For the first time, the university has preceded a large number of major international universities in America, Europe and even in the Middle East and Africa

The University was the world's 240th place in the fields of life sciences and medicine. It surpassed the University of Finland, which ranked 24th in the world, the German University of Ulm 245, the Technion Institute of Technology, which came in 313, and Ben Gurion University 450.

Also, the University in Arts and Humanities ranked 264 worldwide and surpassed the University of Georgia, which ranked 273, the Spanish University of Granada 274, and the University of Tel Aviv 325.

According to the QS report, Cairo University ranked 364 in the natural sciences and surpassed the American universities of Louisiana, which came in 366, the Swedish Gutenberg 388, and Ben Gurion. The University has been ranked 395 in social sciences and management and has surpassed several universities, including the Canadian Carlton and Florida.

The University of Cairo ranked 236rd in the world in engineering and technology, and surpassed the British universities of Liverpool ranked 243, the University of Australia 250, and also superior to universities, Tel Aviv, Hebrew University, Ben Gurion and the Weizmann Institute of Israel, 120 centers from the nearest university, Tel Aviv.

Dr. Mohamed Othman Al-Khasht, President of the university, said that the university's progress in international universities, particularly in the classification of scientific disciplines, is a new success certificate for the university. This is the result of a clear work strategy and effort of the work system. In addition to the role of faculty members in publishing their research in major international journals and journals in all disciplines, and with the full support of the university administration of the scientific research system and linking it to the needs of the society and national projects of the country.

Al-Khasht stressed that the university is moving steadily towards the transition to third generation universities, whether at the level of the Egyptian mind development project or expansion in the fields of future jobs such as artificial intelligence and building international partnerships with international universities. For the digital transformation of university access to the "non-paper" work system.