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3 Egyptian Universities Among Best In The Arab World

Suez Canal, Alexandria, and Cairo Universities all make it onto Times Higher Education's list of the top 15 Arab universities.

Staff Writer

Suez Canal, Alexandria, and Cairo Universities came in tenth, eleventh, and twelfth place respectively on Times Higher Education’s (THE) Top Fifteen Universities in the Arab World. Three of Saudi Arabia’s academic institutions came in the top five due to the country’s financial abundance.

Saudi universities that made it to the list “receive $733,069 of institutional income per member of staff” as opposed to $101,317 for Egypt’s universities, according to the institution.

The ranking is based on data compiled by the World University Rankings 2015-16 following the same calculations, performing indicators and ranking methodology.

The Top 15:

  1. King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
  2. American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  3. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
  4. King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
  5. UAE University, UAE
  6. Qatar University, Qatar
  7. Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
  8. American University of Sharjah, UAE
  9. Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
  10. Suez Canal University, Egypt
  11. Alexandria University, Egypt
  12. Cairo University, Egypt
  13. The University of Jordan, Jordan
  14. University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
  15. Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco