Ain Shams University was founded in July 1950, the third-oldest non-sectarian native public Egyptian university (ancient Islamic universities such as Al-Azhar and private institutions such as the American University in Cairo are older), under the name of Ibrahim Pasha‘s University. Its site used to be a former royal palace, called the Zafarana Palace The two earlier universities of this kind are Cairo University (Fuad I university formerly) and Alexandria University (Farouk I university formerly). When it was first established, Ain Shams University had a number of faculties and academic institutes, which were later developed into a university. The university’s academic structure includes 14 faculties, 1 college and 2 high institutes plus 12 centers and special units.
Ain Shams Institution university
Ain Shams University offers undergraduate programs through 17 faculties and colleges:
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Commerce
- Faculty of Computer and Information Science
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Dentistry
- Faculty of Languages (Al Alsun)
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Nursing
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Specific Education
- Women’s College
- Institute of Environmental Studies and Research
- Institute of Postgraduate Childhood
