Supreme Council Sets New Rules for Private Universities Admission

The Supreme Council of Universities announced new rules for coordinating the enrollment and admission of students in private universities for the next academic year.

The Council approved 10 rules for accepting students, namely, that students submit their applications online on the university’s website, besides the need to deliver a printed certificate from the university’s electronic system, which includes the student’s information, the papers submitted, and the grievance mechanism against the result of admission.

The admission process will also review the minimum limit for each discipline separately in light of the indicators of acceptance in the previous three years.

As for the admission's closing, it is planned a week after announcing the result of the first stage.

Each university is expected to announce the opening of its electronic enrollment, including dates of admission tests and schedule.

Also, universities will separate the expenses of admission fees, and enrollment application provided that the maximum fee is 1000 Egyptian pounds.

Each university may also determine the proportions and the number of students who hold equivalent certificates for each faculty and inform the council’s secretariat about this percentage before its implementation. The university may also adjust or reduce the number of enrolled students according to the admission indicators.

Moreover, private universities will inform the council’s secretariat of the number of students admitted to each faculty, according to their groups, associated with the ID number for students with certificates from Arab countries, within 48 hours of closing the admission process.

On its part, the council will inform each university of the initial result of admission after the electronic review and the approval of admission will only be granted after the council reviews the student's certificates and documents.

In addition, universities are obliged, upon receiving the students' papers, to review all data and certificates for each student, committing to the system installed by the Council in this regard.

It is worth mentioning that Egypt hosts 32 private universities, including 144 faculties.

Contributed by Taarek Refaat