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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

AUC, Cairo University drop in international rankings

AUC, Cairo U slump in global rankings: The American University in Cairo and Cairo University both slipped in university rankings according to the QS World University rankings for 2016/2017, Ahram Online reported. AUC dropped 20 places to 365 while Cairo University dropped 50 places to the 551-600 bracket. All Egyptian universities, with the exception of AUC, dropped in the rankings for academic reputation. “Only the American University in Cairo is inside the world’s top 800 for citations per faculty [out of all universities in Egypt]. If Egypt wants to compete more effectively in the long term, it will need to systematically think about its research funding, infrastructure and strategy,” Ben Sowter, head of research at QS, told Mada Masr. MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge and Caltech are the top five globally, according to the ranking.

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