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Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 1950, with about 220,000 students.
- Type
- Public university
- Location
- Cairo, Egypt
- Founded
- 1950
- Students
- 220,000
- Teaching language
- Arabic, English
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Ain Shams University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 1950, the third of Egypt's state universities after Cairo and Alexandria, and took its name from the ancient centre of On (Heliopolis), known in Arabic as Ain Shams.
Faculties are spread across several campuses in eastern and central Cairo, including Abbassia, with a large faculty of medicine and teaching hospitals, plus engineering, law, arts, science, commerce, pharmacy, dentistry, agriculture, education, languages, nursing, computer and information sciences, and others.
Teaching is in Arabic and, in medicine, engineering and some other programmes, English. Admission for Egyptian students is through the national coordination system; international applicants follow a separate process.
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What language are courses taught in at Ain Shams University?
Courses at Ain Shams University are taught in Arabic, English.
When was Ain Shams University founded?
Ain Shams University was founded in 1950.
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