Fayoum University

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name = Fayoum University
native_name = ( _ar. جامعة الفيوم, Jame'at al-fayum


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Fayoum University ( _ar. جامعة الفيوم, "Jame'at al-fayum") is a public university located in the Egyptian city of Al Fayyum in northern Egypt.

University Establishment

In 1975, Faculty of Education in Fayoum was established as one of the faculties affiliated to Cairo University. In 1976, Faculty of Agriculture in Fayoum was established and Faculty of Engineering was established in 1981. In 1983, the presidential decree was issued considering Fayoum branch as an independent branch of Cairo University.Finally, the dream of Fayoum people has been achieved with issuing the presidential decree N. 48 dated in 2005 to establish Fayoum University. Then, the presidential decree N.193 dated in 2005 was issued to establish faculties of Medicine and Archeology. Both decrees were crowned with the appointment of Prof.Dr. Galal M. Said as a president of Fayoum University. Now, the university includes 13 faculties; Education, Agriculture, Engineering, social Work, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Sciences, Tourism and Hotels, Specific Education, Archeology, Medicine, Arts, Computer and Information Sciences, Kindergarten as well as the Technical Institute for Nursing. The university also includes 1800 of faculty members and their assistants teaching 25,000 students. The new university has many qualifications; the campus that lies on an area of 50 feddans and is located in El-Gamaa area, the new campus that lies on an area of 100 feddans in Kom Oshim Zone in the north of Fayoum, University Administration building that includes offices of the president and his vice-presidents and the Great Celebration Hall as well as Dormitories, Central Printing Press, Central Restaurant and Medical department. University Administration has many future visions for the newly born project. New faculties such as Physical Education and Assistant medical sciences will be established. The current constructions; dormitory for female-students and a new building attached to Faculty of Tourism and Hotels will be continued and the preparation of University Hospital and its specialized centers will be finished. Regular operations of the development of University Hospital and buildings of Archeology and specific Education faculties will be done and lands allocated to the university on Qaroon Lake will be made use of in making university constructions and activities on an area of 32,000 square meters to serve the tourism sector in Fayoum. Finally, the general site will be designed for the future extensions on an area of 100 feddans in the north of Kom Oshim zone.

Faculties

*Faculty of Education
*Faculty of Agriculture
*Faculty of Engineering
*Faculty of Social Work
*Faculty of Science
*Faculty of Hotels and Tourism
*Faculty of Arts
*Faculty of Archaeology
*Faculty of Medicine
*Faculty of Computer science and Information
*Faculty of Specific Education
*Faculty of Kindergarten
*Faculty of Dar Al-Ulum
*Technical Institute of Nursing

In these Faculties study about 25000 students, with a staff of professors, assistant professors, and teachers that reaches to 1800.

External links

* [http://www.fayoum.edu.eg/English/ Official website]