10,000 international students from 78 different countries... Ain Shams University is a 5-star education

An article written by Osama Al-Douma on the Al-Jumhuriya Online website. Here are the details:

Ain Shams University is always keen to increase the number of international students to study in Egypt by launching a package of educational services and modern programs and obtaining the highest international rankings among international universities, which contributes to making the university a destination for international students to study there during the past years, as their numbers exceeded more than 10 thousand students, and this comes as encouragement from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the launch of several initiatives, the latest of which is Study in Egypt.

Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, said that the university has about 10,000 male and female students from 78 nationalities, which indicates the quality of education provided at the university at the level of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in education, scientific research, innovation and creativity.

He added that the university has taken measures to make it easier for foreign students to enroll and study in new faculties, programs, and credit hours that they wish to study, while providing appropriate housing and distinguished courses for that, and is always striving to increase the number of students at the university.

Prof. Abdel-Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, added that there are modern programs and credit hours in modern disciplines that contribute to meeting the needs of the local and international labor market, in addition to the university's interest in the university city to host arrivals during the study period, adding that the university holds an annual festival on campus The aim of the university is to integrate between expatriate students and their colleagues at the university, and this is very important for the integration of expatriates in the various activities organized by the university, and that expatriate forums bring together all university students, which creates integration between them and their peers of different nationalities in studies and activities.

He pointed to the increase in the number of students of different nationalities at Ain Shams University because it is considered a five-star university according to the QS classification and a destination for students wishing to study inside Egypt, stressing that Egypt enjoys an appropriate atmosphere of security and stability that helps learning, and Ain Shams University represents a living model for study and full coexistence in All student and academic activities between Egyptian students and 84 nationalities are in perfect harmony.

Dr. Sherawat Al-Ahmadi, Director of the Expatriates Department, added that Ain Shams University has 78 different nationalities, including 4,000 International students are studying in the Faculty of Medicine and 1,500 in dentistry, in addition to about a thousand expatriates in commerce and law, in addition to the faculties of Al-Alsun and other faculties. It identified the features of the plan of interest in it, on more than one axis, which is internationalization and interest in the global classification of the university because it is one of the axes of attraction for these students and Egyptians as well and the increase in the number of International students, in addition to the axis that is represented in educational services and facilitating the procedures for joining the university, so the current trend is to automate these procedures, therefore, the university is interested in this file by making memorandums of understanding with other universities to receive these students, in addition to the completion of the establishment of a headquarters for the administration to provide services and registration for International students at the end of their procedures through the administration.

Al-Ahmadi added that Ain Shams University provides the opportunity for summer training for international students in university hospitals, and in terms of the most popular faculties for foreign students, the Faculty of Medicine, then Business, Law and Dentistry, explaining that the Faculty of Business has a large number of postgraduate students for professional studies.

The participation of International students in student activities is an important element, which is what Ain Shams University has taken care of, such as the work of the Day of Cultures of Peoples to present the culture of each country, in a way that contributes to merging the culture of Egyptian students with other cultures.

The university offers unparalleled modern programs based on the credit hours system for international students, emphasizing the university's long history and providing educational services, in addition to the existence of an educational platform that helps attract international students from all countries of the world to study in Egypt at Ain Shams University.

There are various programs for foreign students that opened last year at the Faculty of Al-Alsun in translating and teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.