Cairo University
جامعة القاهرة
Jāmaʿat al-Qāhirah
Established: 1908
Type: Public
President: Prof. ʿAlī ʿAbd ar-Rahman Yūsuf
Faculty: 12,158
Students: 200,000
Location: Giza, Giza, Egypt
Campus: Urban
Former names: Egyptian University
Fuʾād I University
Website: www.cu.edu.eg/

Cairo University (Arabic: جامعة القاهرة‎, previously Egyptian University and later Fuʾād I University) is an institute of higher education located in Giza, Egypt. The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought. Several constituent colleges preceded the establishment of the university including the College of Engineering (كلية الهندسة) in 1816, which was shut down by Muhammad Said Pasha in 1854. Cairo University was founded as a European-inspired civil university, in contrast to the religious university of al-Azhar, and became the prime indigenous model for other state universities in the region. Cairo University includes a School of Law and a School of Medicine. The Medical School, also known as Kasr Alaini (قصر العيني, Qasr-ul-'Ayni), was one of the first medical schools in Africa and the Middle East. Its first building was donated by Alaini Pasha. Since then it has undergone extensive expansion.

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