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Cairo University
The second-oldest university in Egypt, founded in 1908, with its main campus in Giza directly across the Nile from Cairo.
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The university was founded on 21 December 1908 as the Egyptian University by a committee of private citizens under royal patronage, and became a state institution under King Fuad I in 1925. It carried his name from 1940 until it was renamed after the 1952 revolution. Its faculties, starting with the Faculty of Arts, settled on the present Giza campus in October 1929 after being housed in various parts of Cairo. It is reported to enrol roughly 155,000 students across 20 faculties.
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- It is the second-oldest institution of higher education in Egypt, after Al-Azhar University.
- Three Nobel laureates are among its graduates.