Benha University - Egypt

Benha University is a public government university in Benha, the capital of Qalyubia Governorate in Egypt's Nile Delta, founded in 1976 as a branch of Zagazig University and made independent on 1 August 2005本哈大学是位于埃及尼罗河三角洲盖勒尤比省省会本哈市的公立大学，1976 年作为扎加齐克大学的分校创办，并于 2005 年 8 月 1 日独立。

It teaches 100,580 students across 16 faculties and 76 undergraduate programmes organised in 146 scientific departments, including 56,323 regular students and 42,000 enrolled through Egypt's open education scheme学校设有 16 个学院、76 个本科专业，分布在 146 个科学系之中，共有 100580 名学生，其中常规学生 56323 名、通过埃及开放式教育就读的学生 42000 名。

Its 5,401 academic staff work across six campus sites in the Delta, QS placed it in the 1401+ band of the 2027 world ranking, and U.S. News ranked it 620th in its 2026-2027 global list学校 5401 名教研人员分布在三角洲的六个校区，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将其列入 1401+ 区间，U.S. News 2026 至 2027 年度全球榜单则将其列为第 620 名。

History

• Zagazig University, the parent institution, had itself grown out of branches of Ain Shams University before gaining independence in 1974, two years before the Benha branch was carved out of it其母体扎加齐克大学本身由艾因夏姆斯大学的分校发展而来，1974 年获得独立，两年后本哈分校才从该校分离出来。
• In 1976 the Egyptian government created a branch of Zagazig University in Benha with five faculties, namely Commerce, Education, Agriculture at Moshtohor, Engineering at Shubra and Medicine1976 年，埃及政府在木本哈设立扎加齐克大学分校，首批设五个学院，即商学院、教育学院、位于穆什图霍尔（Moshtohor）的农学院、位于舒卜拉（Shubra）的工程学院以及医学院。
• The branch was planted in Benha, a market town on the Damietta branch of the Nile about 50 kilometres north of Cairo and a stop on the main Cairo to Alexandria railway, so that Qalyubia would have a university presence分校设在本哈，这座位于尼罗河达米埃塔分支沿岸的集镇距开罗以北约 50 公里，是开罗至亚历山大铁路干线上的站点，从而使盖勒尤比省拥有了大学资源。
• The first academic year of 1976-77 enrolled students in the five founding faculties, while degrees were still awarded under the name and seal of Zagazig University1976 至 1977 学年的首个学年里，五个创始学院开始招生，但学位仍以扎加齐克大学的名义和印章授予。
• A Faculty of Arts followed in 1981, widening the branch from applied and medical fields into the humanities and the training of language teachers1981 年又设立了文学院，使分校从应用与医学领域扩展到人文学科以及语言师资培养。
• The Faculty of Science was established in 1982, giving the branch its first dedicated base for basic-science teaching, laboratories and research in physics, chemistry and biology理学院于 1982 年成立，为分校提供了物理、化学和生物等基础科学教学、实验室与研究的首个专门基地。
• Also in 1982, a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine opened at Moshtohor beside the agricultural faculty, drawing on the surrounding farmland for clinical and herd training同样在 1982 年，兽医学院在穆什图霍尔农学院旁成立，借助周边农田开展临床与畜群实训。
• By the early 1980s the branch had expanded from five to eight faculties, a scale that made a separate university administration increasingly practical for the governorate到 1980 年代初，分校已从五个学院扩展到八个学院，这一规模使为该省设立独立大学管理层变得越来越现实。
• On 1 August 2005 the branch was separated from Zagazig University and became Benha University, with its own university council, budget and authority to award degrees2005 年 8 月 1 日，分校从扎加齐克大学分离，成为本哈大学，拥有自己的大学理事会、预算和学位授予权。
• Independence transferred the faculties, staff and students that had been administered from Zagazig to the new university in Benha, ending three decades of shared governance独立使原先由扎加齐克管理的学院、教职员和学生整体转入本哈的新大学，结束了近三十年的共治格局。
• Hosam Al-Attar became the first president of the independent university and led the transition from a provincial branch into a stand-alone institution with its own academic bylaws胡萨姆·阿塔成为独立后的首任校长，主导了从省级分校向拥有独立学术章程的独立院校的过渡。
• In 2006 the new university established a Faculty of Computers and Information, responding to Egypt's growing demand for information technology graduates and digital services2006 年，新大学成立计算机与信息学院，以回应埃及对信息技术毕业生与数字服务日益增长的需求。
• The same year the Higher Technological Institute joined Benha University, adding technical and applied programmes that complemented the older engineering and science faculties同年，高等技术学院并入本哈大学，增设的技术与应用型专业与原有的工程和理学院形成互补。
• The Faculty of Computers and Information enrolled its first cohort in 2006-07, and computing subsequently became one of the university's fastest-growing fields of study计算机与信息学院于 2006 至 2007 学年迎来首批学生，此后计算学科成为该校发展最快的专业领域之一。
• In 2022 Egypt created Benha National University in El Obour as a separate, newly founded institution, which is frequently confused with the older government university in Benha2022 年，埃及在欧布尔市创办了本哈国立大学，这是一所全新的独立院校，常与位于本哈市的这所历史更久的公立大学混淆。
• In May 2025 a delegation from Huazhong Agricultural University led by Chinese Academy of Sciences academician Zhang Qifa visited Benha to discuss joint research, student training and shared laboratories2025 年 5 月，由中国科学院院士张启发率领的华中农业大学代表团访问本哈，商讨联合研究、学生培养与共建实验室。
• In 2025 Benha also agreed with Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine to create a joint Nanjing-Benha College of Medicine and Chinese Medicine on its campus2025 年，本哈还与南京中医药大学达成协议，在校园内共建南京—本哈医学与中医药学院。
• On 26 April 2026 the two partners opened an acupuncture teaching and training centre at Benha, extending the Chinese medicine collaboration from classroom teaching into clinical instruction2026 年 4 月 26 日，双方在本哈开设针灸教学实训中心，把中医药合作从课堂延伸到临床教学。
• By 2026 the university enrolled 2,257 international undergraduates, part of a wider Egyptian effort to attract students from Africa and Asia to public universities到 2026 年，该校招收了 2257 名国际本科生，这是埃及推动公立大学吸引非洲与亚洲学生的整体努力的一部分。

Academics

• Benha teaches through 16 faculties that fall into three clusters, with engineering, computing, science, agriculture, applied arts and commerce on one side, arts, law, education, specific education and physical education on another, and medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing and physical therapy in the health group本哈大学通过 16 个学院开展教学，可分为三大板块：工程、计算、理学、农业、应用艺术与商科，文学、法律、教育、特殊教育与体育教育，以及医学、兽医、护理与物理治疗组成的健康板块。
• Its 76 undergraduate programmes are delivered through 146 scientific departments, a departmental density that reflects the Egyptian tradition of discipline-specific faculties rather than broad interdisciplinary schools学校的 76 个本科专业依托 146 个科学系开设，这种系科密度体现了埃及按单一学科设置学院的传统，而非宽口径的跨学科学院制。
• Of the 100,580 students, 56,323 are regular full-time students, 42,000 study through open education and 2,257 are international undergraduates, a mix typical of large Delta universities在 100580 名学生中，56323 人为全日制常规学生，42000 人通过开放式教育学习，2257 人为国际本科生，这一结构与三角洲地区大型大学的情况相符。
• The academic staff of 5,401 includes teaching and research appointments across all faculties, giving the university roughly one staff member for every nineteen students on its published figures5401 名教研人员涵盖各学院的教学与研究岗位，按学校公布的数据计算，大约每十九名学生对应一名教研人员。
• Five faculties, namely Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, Agriculture and Engineering, hold accreditation from Egypt's National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education医学院、兽医学院、护理学院、农学院和工程学院五个学院获得了埃及国家教育质量保障与认证局的认证。
• Open education accounts for 42,000 of the student body, a long-standing Egyptian model that lets working adults study for a degree through part-time and distance arrangements开放式教育占学生总数的 42000 人，这是埃及长期实行的一种模式，让在职成年人通过非全日制与远程安排攻读学位。
• The medical cluster is anchored by the Faculty of Medicine and Benha University Hospital, which together provide clinical training for medical, nursing and physical therapy students in the Delta医学板块以医学院和本哈大学医院为核心，二者共同为三角洲地区的医学、护理与物理治疗学生提供临床训练。
• Engineering is taught at two sites, the older Shubra faculty and the newer Benha faculty, while applied arts adds design and craft disciplines to the university's technical profile工程教育在两个校区开展，即历史较久的舒卜拉工程学院与较新的本哈工程学院，应用艺术学院则为学校的技术特色补充了设计与工艺学科。
• The agricultural and veterinary faculties at Moshtohor use surrounding farmland and livestock units for teaching, and the site functions as the university's field-research base for Delta crops位于穆什图霍尔的农学院与兽医学院利用周边农田和畜牧单元开展教学，该校区也是学校面向三角洲作物的田间研究基地。
• The humanities and social science faculties, including Arts, Law, Education, Specific Education and Physical Education, supply teachers, lawyers and sports instructors to Qalyubia and neighbouring governorates人文与社会科学板块包括文学院、法学院、教育学院、特殊教育学院和体育教育学院，为盖勒尤比及邻近省份输送教师、律师与体育指导员。
• The joint college created with Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in 2025 combines Chinese medicine with Egyptian medical training, and the 2026 acupuncture centre supports practical instruction in the discipline2025 年与南京中医药大学共建的联合学院把中医药与埃及医学教育结合起来，2026 年设立的针灸中心则为该学科提供实践教学支持。
• Benha's Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence trains students in software, data and intelligent systems, and its graduates feed the IT sector of Greater Cairo and the Delta本哈大学的计算机与人工智能学院培养软件、数据与智能系统方向的学生，毕业生进入大开罗与三角洲地区的信息技术行业。
• Beyond the faculties, the university operates 36 centres and units that provide language teaching, computing services, quality assurance, continuing education and community outreach除学院之外，学校还运营 36 个中心与服务单位，提供语言教学、计算服务、质量保障、继续教育与社区外展。
• A central library on the Benha campus serves all faculties, with branch collections at Moshtohor and Shubra supporting agriculture, veterinary medicine and engineering respectively本哈主校区设有中心图书馆服务全校，穆什图霍尔与舒卜拉校区则分别设有支持农业、兽医和工程学科的分馆。
• The 2025 visit by Huazhong Agricultural University opened discussions on joint laboratories and student exchange, adding a Chinese agricultural partner to Benha's international network2025 年华中农业大学的来访开启了共建实验室与学生交流的磋商，为本哈的国际网络增添了中国的农业合作伙伴。
• Physical education is taught as both a faculty programme and a service subject, and the university's sports facilities host governorate-level competitions as well as internal leagues, and it is also used for community sports programmes体育教育既作为学院专业开设，也作为公共课程提供，学校体育设施承办省级比赛以及校内联赛。
• Instruction is delivered mainly in Arabic in the arts, law, commerce and education faculties, while medicine, engineering and computing rely heavily on English textbooks and clinical terminology文学院、法学院、商学院与教育学院的课程主要以阿拉伯语授课，医学、工程与计算学科则大量使用英文教材与临床术语。
• The Faculty of Specific Education trains teachers of art, music, home economics and special education, supplying specialists that the general education faculties do not cover特殊教育学院培养美术、音乐、家政与特殊教育方向的教师，提供普通教育学院无法覆盖的专门师资。
• Postgraduate study is available in most faculties, with master's and doctoral degrees awarded in medicine, engineering, agriculture, science and the humanities under Egypt's higher degree regulations多数学院开设研究生课程，按埃及的高等学位条例在医学、工程、农业、理学与人文学科授予硕士和博士学位。

Campus

• The main campus occupies the Benha site at 100 Farid Nada Street, where the medical, science, arts, law, commerce, education and computing faculties are concentrated主校区位于本哈市法里德·纳达街 100 号，医学、理学、文学、法律、商学、教育与计算等学院集中于此。
• Benha University spreads over six sites, namely Benha, Kafr Saad, Moshtohor, Shubra, Tokh and El Obour, a dispersed pattern common to Egyptian regional universities本哈大学分布在六个校区，即本哈、卡夫尔萨阿德、穆什图霍尔、舒卜拉、托赫与欧布尔，这种分散布局在埃及地方大学中较为常见。
• The Moshtohor campus houses the Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and its fields and animal units give students direct access to crop and herd practice穆什图霍尔校区设有农学院与兽医学院，其农田和动物单元让学生能够直接参与作物与畜群实践。
• The Shubra campus is the home of the original engineering faculty, whose laboratories and workshops support mechanical, electrical and civil training舒卜拉校区是原工程学院所在地，其实验室与车间支撑机械、电气与土木方向的实训。
• At El Obour the university holds 180 acres reserved for future development, a land bank intended to accommodate new faculties and student housing as demand grows学校在欧布尔持有 180 英亩土地，预留用于未来发展，作为应对需求增长、容纳新学院与学生宿舍的土地储备。
• Residential provision includes three university cities for men, at Benha, Moshtohor and Shubra, and two for women, at Benha and Shubra, reflecting the gender-segregated housing model used in Egyptian public universities住宿方面，学校在本哈、穆什图霍尔和舒卜拉设有三座男生大学城，在本哈和舒卜拉设有两座女生大学城，体现了埃及公立大学普遍采用的男女分区住宿模式。
• Benha University Hospital stands among the largest teaching hospitals in Qalyubia, serving both the university's clinical students and patients referred from the Delta本哈大学医院是盖勒尤比省规模最大的教学医院之一，既服务该校临床专业学生，也接收来自三角洲地区的转诊病人。
• The Benha campus lies about 50 kilometres north of Cairo on the Damietta branch of the Nile, and the city's railway station on the Cairo-Alexandria line puts the capital within an hour by train本哈校区位于开罗以北约 50 公里的尼罗河达米埃塔分支沿岸，本哈火车站位于开罗至亚历山大铁路线上，乘火车约一小时可达首都。
• The surrounding governorate is intensively farmed, producing citrus, vegetables and field crops, and the university's agricultural and veterinary faculties draw their teaching material from this economy周边省份农业集约化程度很高，出产柑橘、蔬菜与田间作物，学校的农业与兽医学科正从这一经济形态中获取教学素材。
• The dispersion of campuses means that students often travel between sites for shared courses, and the university runs bus services linking Benha, Moshtohor and Shubra during term time校区分散意味着学生常需在各点之间往返上课，学校在学期内开行连接本哈、穆什图霍尔与舒卜拉的班车。

Reputation

• QS placed Benha University in the 1401+ band of its 2027 World University Rankings, the joint final band reserved for institutions outside the individually numbered positions在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，本哈大学位列 1401+ 区间，这一并列末段区间专门用于未进入单独编号名次的院校。
• The 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed Benha in the 1201-1400 band, its strongest showing among the global ranking bands published for that year2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将本哈列入 1201 至 1400 区间，这是该校当年在各大全球排名区间中的较好位置。
• U.S. News ranked Benha 620th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, by far the university's highest placement among the four major global rankingsU.S. News 在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学榜单中把本哈列为第 620 名，这是该校在四大全球排名中最靠前的位置。
• Benha did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the university does not appear in the ShanghaiRanking subject tables for that year本哈大学未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，也未出现在该年度的软科一流学科榜单中。
• In the 2026 edition of the QS Arab Region University Rankings, Benha was placed joint 114th, a regional standing that reflects its size and its medical and engineering faculties在 2026 年版 QS 阿拉伯地区大学排名中，本哈大学并列第 114 名，这一地区位次与其规模和医学、工程学科的实力相称。
• QS also placed Benha in the 1201-1250 band of its Sustainability Rankings, which assess environmental and social impact rather than research output aloneQS 还把本哈列入其可持续发展排名的 1201 至 1250 区间，该榜单评估的是环境与社会影响，而非仅看科研产出。
• National quality assurance is concentrated in five accredited faculties, and the university's medical and engineering programmes are the ones most often cited in Egyptian accreditation reports国家质量保障的重点集中在五个获认证学院，其中医学与工程类专业最常出现在埃及的认证报告中。
• With 100,580 students, Benha is among the larger public universities in Egypt, a scale that gives it broad regional reach but also heavy teaching loads本哈大学拥有 100580 名学生，是埃及规模较大的公立大学之一，这一体量带来广泛的地区影响力，也意味着沉重的教学负担。
• Its international profile is built mainly on medical and agricultural partnerships, including the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine joint college and the Huazhong Agricultural University research dialogue begun in 2025该校的国际影响力主要建立在医学与农业合作之上，包括与南京中医药大学的联合学院以及 2025 年启动的华中农业大学科研对话。
• The contrast between its 620th place in U.S. News and its 1401+ QS band illustrates how differently global rankings weigh the university's teaching-intensive, regionally focused profile该校在 U.S. News 位列第 620 名、在 QS 却处于 1401+ 区间，这种反差说明各全球排名对以教学为主、面向本地区的大学评价差异很大。

Student life

• Benha University has no widely publicised Latin motto, and its ceremonial identity rests instead on its seal, its faculties and its service role in the Delta本哈大学没有广为人知的拉丁文校训，其礼仪性标识主要依靠校徽、各学院以及它在三角洲地区的服务角色。
• The student body mixes regular undergraduates, open-education learners and international students, so campus life spans full-time study, evening classes and distance learning学生构成混合了常规本科生、开放式教育学员与国际学生，因此校园生活涵盖全日制学习、晚间课程与远程学习。
• University cities at Benha, Moshtohor and Shubra house male students, while the Benha and Shubra cities accommodate women, and residence is administered by the university's student affairs sector本哈、穆什图霍尔与舒卜拉的大学城招收男生，本哈与舒卜拉的大学城则安排女生住宿，宿舍事务由学校学生事务部门管理。
• Because the Faculty of Physical Education sits within the university, sport is both an academic discipline and a mass activity, with inter-faculty leagues and governorate competitions held on campus由于体育教育学院隶属于本校，体育既是学术专业也是大众活动，校内举办院际联赛与省级比赛。
• Student unions and student families organise cultural, religious and charitable activities, a structure common to Egyptian public universities and supervised by the student affairs vice presidency学生会与学生社团组织文化、宗教与公益活动，这一结构在埃及公立大学中很普遍，由分管学生事务的副校长督导。
• Benha itself is a Delta market town rather than a metropolitan capital, and student life is closely tied to the city's trade in citrus, vegetables and grain本哈本身是三角洲的集镇而非大都市，学生生活与当地柑橘、蔬菜和谷物贸易紧密相连。
• The Cairo-Alexandria railway gives students relatively cheap access to the capital's internships, libraries and cultural institutions, which many commute to at weekends开罗至亚历山大铁路让学生能以较低成本接触首都的实习机会、图书馆与文化机构，许多人周末往返通勤。
• The university's 36 centres and units run medical, agricultural and educational convoys to surrounding villages, and students in medicine, agriculture and education often join them as part of practical training学校的 36 个中心与单位向周边村庄派出医疗、农业与教育服务队，医学、农业与教育专业的学生常作为实训的一部分参与其中。
• University teams compete in the Egyptian Universities Sports Federation, which runs national championships among public universities, and Benha's physical education faculty supplies coaches and referees for those events校队参加埃及大学体育联合会组织的公立大学全国锦标赛，本哈的体育教育学院则为这些赛事输送教练与裁判。
• The academic year follows Egypt's two-semester calendar, running from September to January and from February to June, with examinations at the end of each term学年遵循埃及的两学期制，从 9 月到次年 1 月、再从 2 月到 6 月，每学期末举行考试。

Notable people

• Nasser El-Gizawy serves as president of Benha University, having previously held senior academic posts at the institution before his appointment to its leadership纳赛尔·吉扎维现任本哈大学校长，在出任校领导之前曾在该校担任多个高级学术职务。
• Tamer Samir is the vice president for education and student affairs, the office responsible for admissions, examinations and the student disciplinary system across the 16 faculties塔梅尔·萨米尔是分管教育与学生的副校长，该职位负责 16 个学院的招生、考试与学生纪律事务。
• El-Sayed Fouda serves as vice president for community service and environmental development, overseeing the university's outreach convoys and its links with Delta industry and agriculture赛义德·福达担任分管社区服务与环境发展的副校长，负责学校的外展服务队以及同三角洲工农业的联系。
• Hosam Al-Attar led Benha University as its first president after the 2005 separation from Zagazig University, establishing the new institution's council and academic bylaws胡萨姆·阿塔在 2005 年从扎加齐克大学分离后出任本哈大学首任校长，组建了新大学的理事会与学术章程。
• Mohamed Safwat Zahran followed Al-Attar as president, a tenure remembered for consolidating the university's faculty structure and its hospital services穆罕默德·萨夫瓦特·扎赫兰继阿塔之后担任校长，其任内以整合学校院系结构与医院服务而为人所知。
• Ali Shams El-Din later served as president, and his administration oversaw the university's expansion into new programme areas and its early international rankings entries阿里·沙姆斯·丁其后担任校长，其管理层推动了学校向新专业领域扩展并首次进入国际排名。
• Anwar Sadat was president of Egypt in 1976, when the Benha branch of Zagazig University was created as part of the state's drive to extend higher education into the provinces安瓦尔·萨达特在 1976 年担任埃及总统，正是在其推动高等教育向各省扩展的政策下，扎加齐克大学本哈分校得以设立。
• Zhang Qifa, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led the Huazhong Agricultural University delegation that visited Benha in May 2025 to discuss joint laboratories and student training中国科学院院士张启发率领华中农业大学代表团于 2025 年 5 月访问本哈，商讨共建实验室与学生培养。
• Ayman Ashour has served as Egypt's minister of higher education and scientific research since 2022, the ministry that sets Benha's admission rules and supervises its budget艾曼·阿舒尔自 2022 年起担任埃及高等教育与科学研究部长，该部制定本哈的招生规则并监督其预算。