As you are about to bring your last academic year of secondary education to a close, you also need to learn about the universities' doors that can open up and take you to a well paved future with opportunities of quality education, character building activities, and also career planning and development. In alphabetic order, we provide the readers with what's on campus: The American University in Cairo (AUC) The American University in Cairo, one of the oldest universities in Egypt and the Middle East, was established in 1919. Over the years, AUC has offered a variety of majors and specialisations through its six schools and 30 undergraduate programmes empowering its graduates with knowledge and skills to compete in the global market. According to Dena Rashed, assistant director for the AUC Office of Communication; in Fall 2013, AUC opens its doors for about 1,000 new students. However, AUC will offer new scholarships, Rashed added. Part of the AUC culture in empowering talents, the university will offer for Fall 2013 scholarships to five new students from five governorates as well as the Mepi Tomorrow's Leaders scholarships to eight new students from the MENA region. Moreover, the university will remain sponsoring 20 new students as part of the Public Schools Scholarship Fund. College life at AUC remains a unique experience, since the university body today is 6,950 from 67 countries with 780 international students, all under the umbrella of the university. Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport was established in the 1970s under the Arab League's Council, after the council's 53rd session, Decree 2631/1970, stipulating the endorsement of founding a regional centre for maritime transport training. Today the university has seven different colleges, two of which are newly launched: College of Language and Communication College of Fisheries and Aquaculture Starting Fall 2013 the university will launch the new “student internship programme” in cooperation with 10 multinational companies at the newly inaugurated branch at the Smart Village, Giza. Recently, AASTMT launched a new programme in cooperation with the London School of Economics at its Heliopolis branch. The academy also hosts the MATE ROV Egypt Regional Competition as well as national football teams at its Abu Kir campus that also has full range sports courts for football, basketball, tennis and volleyball and a contemporary gym. According to professor Dalia Farrag, associate professor of marketing at AASTMT, the Arab Academy is the only private university in Egypt that has seven branches all over Egypt and they are at: Abu Kir, Alexandria — Miami, Alexandria — Smart Village, Giza — Dokki, Giza — Heliopolis, Cairo — Port Said — South Valley. Farrag adds, the university intends to accept around 5,000 new students for the Fall 2013 semester across the different branches of the university. Cairo University Cairo University is the oldest university in Egypt, established in 1908. Currently its campus is witnessing a very strong wave of student organisation activities supporting students' needs for development and increasing their social and professional responsibility, like; X-Media, the first student organisation in Cairo University mass communication section providing students with media values, ethics and professional training since January 2013. According to Amir Nashaat, assistant head of the public relations committee, X-Media; “we started with aims to develop the integrity and credibility of media professionals and later provide students with opportunities of professional training by having workshops for; film making, radio production, programme set-up and motion graphics.” All X-Media workshops are offered for free and the project has successfully trained around 100 students during the past semester. More about the future of Egyptian University In 2016, Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology (EJUST) will open its doors for undergraduate students offering the three majors of engineering, business and humanities, according to Nadia Al-Telailti, student affairs manager at EJUST. The engineering section will have three different schools; School of Electronics, Communication and Computing, School of Innovative Design Engineering and School of Energy Sources and Environmental Engineering. EJUST Humanities School will also open the first in-depth study of the Egyptian and Japanese cultures. EJUST was established in 2009, in Borg Al-Arab, Alexandria, and they are starting their first admission in February 2012 by launching their post graduate studies. Currently they have 100 graduate students. The university graduated three Masters classes and a Phd class.
