About Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt, that was
founded in 1950. It was the third higher education institution to be established in Egypt,
and it was erected on the site of a former royal house – the Zaafarana Palace – named after
the area surrounding it, which was known for saffron plants (‘zaafaran’ in Arabic).
Today, the university is organised across seven separate campuses, all
located within the Greater Cairo area, and it also comprises 15 faculties alongside several
research institutions. There live facilities for college kids provided on campus also as
sports and recreational facilities
The university administration, as well as the arts, law, and science
faculties, are all located on the main campus in Cairo’s Abassia neighborhood. Commerce,
Engineering, Medicine, Agriculture, Education, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Computers and
Information Sciences, Education, and Nursing are among the other faculties that are located
elsewhere.
Students at Ain Shams are encouraged to study abroad, and the university
has a variety of academic connections with overseas universities such as the University of
Birmingham and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, Monash University in
Australia, and McGill University in Canada.