Mansoura University

Mansoura University (Arabic: Jami'at al-Mansura) is a public research university in the city of Mansoura, in Egypt's Nile Delta, and the sixth university to be founded in the country.曼苏拉大学（阿拉伯语：جامعة المنصورة）是一所位于埃及尼罗河三角洲曼苏拉市的公立研究型大学，也是埃及创办的第六所大学。

Its medical school began in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University, and the institution was formally established in 1972 as East Delta University before taking the name Mansoura University in 1973.其医学院于 1962 年作为开罗大学的分支开办，该校于 1972 年正式成立并定名东三角洲大学，1973 年改为现名曼苏拉大学。

Spread over a campus of roughly 300 acres on the south-western edge of the city, it is organised into eighteen faculties and runs one of Egypt's largest academic hospital complexes.该校校园占地约 300 英亩，位于城市西南侧，设有十八个学院，并运营着埃及规模最大的学术医院群之一。

History

• The Faculty of Medicine began teaching in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University, making Mansoura's medical school older than the university itself and the seed from which the institution grew.医学院于 1962 年作为开罗大学的分支开始授课，因此曼苏拉的医学院比大学本身更为年长，也是整所大学生长的源头。
• In 1972 a presidential decree, issued as Law No. 49 of that year, announced the establishment of the institution under the name East Delta University.1972 年，一份总统令以该年第 49 号法律的形式颁布，宣布设立该校，定名为东三角洲大学。
• Its name was changed to Mansoura University in 1973, taking the name of the city that sits on the Damietta branch of the Nile.1973 年，该校更名为曼苏拉大学，采用坐落于尼罗河达米埃塔支流畔的这座城市之名。
• When it was founded, Mansoura was the sixth university established in Egypt, joining the older institutions of Cairo, Alexandria, Ain Shams, Assiut and Tanta.该校创办时是埃及建立的第六所大学，与开罗、亚历山大、艾因夏姆斯、艾斯尤特与坦塔等更早的院校并列。
• Prof. Abdelmeniem Elsaeid Al-Badrawy served as the university's first president from 1973 to 1978, shaping its early faculties and governance.阿卜杜勒·穆奈姆·萨伊德·巴德拉维教授于 1973 年至 1978 年出任该校首任校长，奠定其早期学院与治理结构。
• Prof. Shafeek Ebrahim Balba' led the university from 1978 to 1980, a period in which the young institution consolidated its academic departments.沙菲克·易卜拉欣·巴尔巴教授于 1978 年至 1980 年领导该校，这一时期这所年轻大学巩固了各学系建制。
• The Urology and Nephrology Center was officially opened in May 1983 under Prof. Mohamed Ghoneim, and became a World Health Organization collaborating centre for renal and urological disorders.泌尿与肾脏中心于 1983 年 5 月在穆罕默德·戈奈姆教授主持下正式启用，并成为世界卫生组织在肾脏与泌尿疾病领域的合作中心。
• Between March 1976 and March 2004 the Urology and Nephrology Center carried out 1,600 live-donor kidney transplantations, among the largest such series in the region.1976 年 3 月至 2004 年 3 月间，泌尿与肾脏中心完成了 1,600 例活体供肾移植手术，是该地区规模最大的同类系列之一。
• Prof. Kamal Eldeen Kamal Ahmed served as president from 1983 to 1987, during which the university's hospital provision expanded alongside its faculties.卡迈勒·埃尔丁·卡迈勒·艾哈迈德教授于 1983 年至 1987 年任校长，其间该校的医院设施随学院一同扩展。
• Prof. AbdelFatah Muhammad Hassan led the university from 1987 to 1990, followed by Prof. Muhammad Hasaneed Emarra from 1990 to 1994 and Prof. Ahmed Amin Hamza from 1994 to 2001.阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·穆罕默德·哈桑教授于 1987 年至 1990 年领导该校，其后穆罕默德·哈萨尼德·伊马拉教授（1990 年至 1994 年）与艾哈迈德·阿明·哈姆扎教授（1994 年至 2001 年）相继任校长。
• The presidency of Prof. Yehya Hussein Ebeed from 2001 to 2003 and of Prof. Ahmed Gamal Eldeen Mousa from 2003 to 2004 saw further growth in faculties and student numbers.叶海亚·侯赛因·埃比德教授（2001 年至 2003 年）与艾哈迈德·贾迈勒·埃尔丁·穆萨教授（2003 年至 2004 年）任校长期间，学院与学生规模进一步扩大。
• Prof. Magdy Muhammad Abu Raya served from 2004 to 2007 and Prof. Ahmed Bayoumy Shehab Eldeen from 2007 to 2011, a period of steady expansion across the health sciences.马吉迪·穆罕默德·阿布·拉亚教授（2004 年至 2007 年）与艾哈迈德·巴尤米·谢哈布·埃尔丁教授（2007 年至 2011 年）相继任校长，这一时期健康科学各学科稳步扩张。
• Prof. Elsayed Ahmed Abdelkhalek led the university from 2011 to 2014, and Prof. Muhammad El-Kenawy from 2014 to 2018.赛义德·艾哈迈德·阿卜杜勒·哈利克教授于 2011 年至 2014 年领导该校，穆罕默德·肯纳维教授于 2014 年至 2018 年接任。
• In 2018 the Mansourasaurus, a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, was discovered by a team under the university's palaeontologist Hesham Sallam and was named after Mansoura.2018 年，一支由该校古生物学家希沙姆·萨拉姆带领的团队发现了植食性蜥脚类恐龙的一属，并以曼苏拉之名命名为「曼苏拉龙」。
• Prof. Ashraf Muhammad Abdelbaset took office as the university's president in November 2018 and has led its recent expansion in research and international cooperation.阿什拉夫·穆罕默德·阿卜杜勒·巴西特教授于 2018 年 11 月就任校长，主导了该校近年来在科研与国际合作方面的扩展。
• In 2024 the Faculty of Law became the first Egyptian public law faculty to obtain institutional accreditation from the national quality-assurance authority.2024 年，法学院成为埃及首个获得国家质量保障机构机构认证的公立大学法学院。
• By the 2025/26 academic year about 185,000 students were studying at the university, of whom some 48,000 were newly admitted first-year students across its eighteen faculties.到 2025/26 学年，该校在读学生约 185,000 人，其中约 48,000 人是十八个学院新录取的一年级新生。
• In October 2026 the university announced the establishment of an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Valley to promote technology transfer and support Egypt's knowledge economy.2026 年 10 月，该校宣布设立「创新与创业谷」，以促进技术转移并支持埃及的知识经济。
• Across five decades the university has grown from a single medical branch into a comprehensive institution that serves the whole of the central Nile Delta.历经五十余年，该校已从一个单一的医学院分支发展为服务整个尼罗河三角洲中部的综合性学府。
• Founding faculties in medicine, engineering, agriculture, commerce and the arts have been joined over the years by units in nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, computing, tourism and the fine arts.医学、工程、农业、商学与文科等建校初期学院，多年来又陆续增添了护理、牙医、药学、兽医、计算机、旅游与美术等单位。
• Prof. Yehya Ahmed Masoud led the university from 1980 to 1983, a period in which its faculties of agriculture, commerce and the arts became firmly established and the campus grew around the medical quarter of the city.叶海亚·艾哈迈德·马苏德教授于 1980 年至 1983 年领导该校，其间农学院、商学院与文学院得以稳固设立，校园也围绕城市的医学区不断扩展。
• By 2025 the university had expanded its hospital network and research centres, consolidating its position as a regional referral centre for medicine, engineering and agricultural science.到 2025 年，该校已扩展其医院网络与研究中心，巩固了其作为医学、工程与农业科学区域转诊中心的地位。

Academics

• The university is organised into eighteen faculties whose subjects span medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, agriculture, commerce, law, science, education, the arts, computing and information, nursing, veterinary medicine, physical education, tourism and the fine arts.该校设有十八个学院，学科覆盖医学、牙医、药学、工程、农业、商学、法学、理学、教育学、文科、计算与信息、护理、兽医、体育教育、旅游与美术等领域。
• Its Faculty of Medicine, founded in 1962, anchors a health-science cluster that also includes dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and veterinary medicine.其 1962 年创办的医学院支撑着一个健康科学群体，成员还包括牙医、药学、护理与兽医等学院。
• The Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science are among the university's largest, training engineers and scientists for the Delta's industry and agriculture.工程学院与理学院是该校规模最大的学院之一，为三角洲地区的工业与农业培养工程师和科学家。
• The Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences and the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels reflect the university's response to Egypt's growing service and technology sectors.计算机与信息科学学院以及旅游与酒店学院，反映了该校对埃及不断壮大的服务业与技术产业的回应。
• Teaching staff and researchers across the faculties number several thousand, supported by a large administrative and technical workforce.各学院的教学人员与研究人员共有数千人，另有庞大的行政与技术工作人员提供支持。
• In the 2025/26 academic year enrolment reached about 185,000 students, with roughly 48,000 new first-year students admitted to the eighteen faculties.2025/26 学年该校在校生约 185,000 人，十八个学院新录取的一年级学生约 48,000 人。
• The university runs a network of affiliated hospitals and medical centres, including the Urology and Nephrology Center, the Specialized Medical Hospital and the Gastroenterology Surgical Center.该校运营着一个附属医院与医疗中心网络，其中包括泌尿与肾脏中心、专科医院以及胃肠外科中心。
• Mansoura University Hospitals, the Emergency Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Oncology Center and the Ophthalmic Center together make up one of the largest teaching-hospital systems in Egypt.曼苏拉大学医院、急救医院、儿童医院、肿瘤中心与眼科中心共同构成埃及规模最大的教学医院体系之一。
• The Medical Experimental Research Center (MERC) supports laboratory and clinical research, while a nanotechnology centre and a scientific computing centre serve the wider faculty.医学实验研究中心（MERC）支撑实验室与临床研究，另有纳米技术中心与科学计算中心服务全校。
• Specialised units include the Technical Institute of Nursing, the Centre for Learning Arabic to non-native speakers and a continuing-education and e-learning unit.专门单位还包括护理技术学院、面向非母语者的阿拉伯语教学中心，以及继续教育与在线教育部门。
• Research at the university spans nephrology and transplantation, oncology, hepatology, agriculture, water resources, engineering and nanotechnology.该校科研涵盖肾脏病与移植、肿瘤学、肝病学、农业、水资源、工程与纳米技术等领域。
• The Faculty of Agriculture conducts field research on Delta crops, soil and irrigation, supporting the region's farming economy.农学院针对三角洲的作物、土壤与灌溉开展田间研究，支撑本地区的农业经济。
• The university admits students through Egypt's centralised secondary-school examination system, and its medical and engineering faculties are among the most competitive in the Delta.该校通过埃及统一的中学毕业考试制度招生，其医学与工程学院是三角洲地区竞争最激烈的院系之一。
• Mansoura cooperates with peer institutions including Cairo University, Alexandria University, Al-Azhar University, Tanta University, Zagazig University and Kafrelsheikh University on research and training.曼苏拉与开罗大学、亚历山大大学、爱资哈尔大学、坦塔大学、扎加齐格大学与卡夫雷尔谢赫大学等同行院校在科研与培训方面开展合作。
• The university participates in Egypt's Study in Egypt initiative to attract international students, particularly from other Arab and African countries.该校参与埃及的「留学埃及」项目以吸引国际学生，尤其是来自其他阿拉伯与非洲国家的学生。
• Postgraduate programmes lead to master's and doctoral degrees across medicine, engineering, agriculture, science, commerce, law and the humanities, and the university awards several thousand higher degrees each year.研究生项目在医学、工程、农业、理学、商学、法学与人文学科授予硕士与博士学位，该校每年授予数千个高等学位。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 300 acres on the south-western side of Mansoura, a city in the Dakahlia Governorate in the central Nile Delta.主校区占地约 300 英亩，位于曼苏拉市的西南侧，该市处于尼罗河三角洲中部的达卡利亚省。
• It lies at roughly 31.036 degrees north and 31.381 degrees east, close to the Damietta branch of the Nile that gives the region its farmland.校园约处北纬 31.036 度、东经 31.381 度，靠近为当地带来农田的尼罗河达米埃塔支流。
• The campus groups the eighteen faculties, the central library, student dormitories and administrative buildings on a single site, together with a social club and a staff restaurant.校园把十八个学院、中央图书馆、学生宿舍与行政楼集中在一处，并配有社交俱乐部与教职工餐厅。
• Several faculties sit off the main site, including the Faculty of Kindergarten and Early Childhood Education on Ahmed Maher Street and the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels.若干学院位于主校区之外，包括设在艾哈迈德·马赫尔街的幼儿园与幼儿教育学院，以及旅游与酒店学院。
• The Faculty of Specific Education has its main building in Mansoura and two branches at Mit Ghamr and Minyet El-Nasr, spreading teaching across the governorate.特殊教育学院的主楼设在曼苏拉，并在米特加姆尔与米尼亚·纳斯尔设有两个分支，把教学铺展至全省。
• The university's teaching hospitals, including the Urology and Nephrology Center, occupy large sites adjoining the campus within the city.该校的教学医院（包括泌尿与肾脏中心）占据紧邻校园的大片城市用地。
• Student dormitories, a modern kitchen for staff and employees, a newly equipped student hospital and a library serve the large residential student population.学生宿舍、面向教职工的现代厨房、新配备的学生医院以及一座图书馆，共同服务于庞大的住宿学生群体。
• The campus is linked to the city by the road and rail network of Mansoura, a commercial and cultural centre about 120 kilometres north-east of Cairo.校区通过曼苏拉的公路与铁路网与城市相连，该市是开罗东北约 120 公里处的商业与文化中心。
• A central library with extensive holdings, students' dormitories and a student hospital serve the campus community, while the affiliated teaching hospitals stand within the city itself.一座馆藏丰富的中央图书馆、学生宿舍与学生医院服务校园群体，而附属教学医院则坐落于城市之中。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Mansoura University is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range covering a large group of institutions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，曼苏拉大学位列第 1001-1200 位（并列区间，涵盖一大批院校）。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 267th in the world, by far its strongest position among the major league tables.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位居全球第 267 位，是其在各主要榜单中的最好成绩。
• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by ShanghaiRanking it appears in the 601-700 band.在上海软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列第 601-700 位。
• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is ranked in the 801-1000 band, placing it among Egypt's leading research universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列第 801-1000 位，跻身埃及主要研究型大学之列。
• OpenAlex records about 73,535 scholarly works and 2,086,656 citations associated with the university, reflecting a very large research output.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校累计约有 73,535 篇学术成果与 2,086,656 次被引，显示其科研产出规模非常庞大。
• Its Urology and Nephrology Center is internationally recognised for kidney transplantation and urological surgery and is a World Health Organization collaborating centre.其泌尿与肾脏中心因肾脏移植与泌尿外科手术而享誉国际，是世界卫生组织的合作中心。
• The university sits within Egypt's public higher-education system supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and is among the country's largest institutions by enrolment.该校隶属由埃及高等教育与科学研究部监管的公立高等教育体系，按在校生规模位居全国最大院校之列。
• Its medical, engineering and agricultural faculties are widely regarded as among the strongest in the central Delta region of Egypt.其医学、工程与农学等学院被普遍视为埃及三角洲中部地区最具实力的院系之一。
• The 2018 discovery of the Mansourasaurus, announced by a university-led team, brought international scientific attention to Mansoura's palaeontology research.2018 年由该校领衔的团队公布的「曼苏拉龙」发现，使曼苏拉的古生物研究获得国际科学界的关注。
• Within Egypt the university is regularly ranked among the country's foremost public universities by research output and by the scale of its medical and hospital services.在埃及国内，该校常因科研产出以及医学与医院服务的规模而被列为全国最重要的公立大学之一。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, expressing its identity instead through a stated mission of community service and academic excellence in the Delta.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，而是通过服务社区与追求学术卓越的办学使命来表达其身份认同。
• On-campus dormitories accommodate male and female students drawn from governorates across Egypt, many of them the first in their families to attend university.校内宿舍接纳来自埃及各省的男女学生，其中许多人来自家中第一代大学生。
• Student unions and faculty-level councils organise cultural and scientific weeks, sports leagues and volunteer work throughout the academic year.学生会与各学院层面的理事会组织全学年的文化科学周、体育联赛与志愿服务活动。
• The university runs development convoys that carry medical, veterinary and agricultural services to villages surrounding Mansoura and across the Delta.该校组织「发展车队」，把医疗、兽医与农业服务送往曼苏拉周边及三角洲各地的村庄。
• Sports teams in football, athletics and other disciplines represent the faculties in inter-faculty competitions, while a social club serves staff and students.足球、田径及其他项目的运动队代表各学院参加院际比赛，另有一座社交俱乐部服务师生。
• The Faculty of Physical Education and the sports facilities support a strong athletic culture, and the university competes in Egyptian university sports championships.体育教育学院与各类运动设施支撑着浓厚的体育文化，该校也参加埃及大学生体育锦标赛。
• Graduation season each summer brings families from across the Delta to the campus for the ceremonies of the individual faculties.每年夏季的毕业季会把三角洲各地的家庭带到校园，参加各学院分别举行的典礼。
• Campus life is closely tied to the city of Mansoura, a Nile Delta centre known for its universities, hospitals and bustling commercial streets.校园生活与曼苏拉这座城市紧密相连，该市是尼罗河三角洲的中心，以大学、医院与繁华的商业街著称。
• Annual scientific conferences and cultural festivals hosted by the faculties give students opportunities to present research and take part in the arts.各学院主办的年度学术会议与文化节，为学生提供展示研究成果与参与文艺活动的机会。
• The university's cultural and scientific weeks, held by each faculty, culminate in public exhibitions and competitions that draw visitors from across the Delta every year.各学院举办的文化科学周都会以公开展览与竞赛收官，每年吸引三角洲各地的访客前来。

Notable people

• Prof. Abdelmeniem Elsaeid Al-Badrawy was the university's first president, serving from 1973 to 1978 after its foundation as East Delta University.阿卜杜勒·穆奈姆·萨伊德·巴德拉维教授是该校首任校长，自 1973 年学校以「东三角洲大学」之名创立后任职至 1978 年。
• Prof. Mohamed Ghoneim, the pioneering urologist and transplant surgeon, founded the Urology and Nephrology Center in 1983 and made Mansoura a world centre for kidney surgery.泌尿外科与移植外科的先驱穆罕默德·戈奈姆教授于 1983 年创办泌尿与肾脏中心，使曼苏拉成为世界肾脏外科的中心。
• Kareem Mohamed Abu-Elmagd is a transplant surgeon and alumnus of the university who became known internationally for intestinal transplantation.卡里姆·穆罕默德·阿布·埃尔马格德是该大学校友、移植外科医生，因肠道移植而为国际医学界所知。
• Hesham Sallam, the palaeontologist who led the team that discovered the Mansourasaurus in 2018, is a member of the university's faculty.古生物学家希沙姆·萨拉姆是该校教师，2018 年率团队发现「曼苏拉龙」。
• Ayman Nour, the Egyptian politician who founded the El-Ghad Party and ran for the presidency in 2005, studied at the university.创立「明日党」并于 2005 年竞选总统的埃及政治家阿伊曼·努尔曾就读于该校。
• Khairat El-Shater, a businessman and senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, is counted among the university's graduates.商人、穆斯林兄弟会高层人物海拉特·沙特尔被列为该校毕业生之一。
• Mohamed Mansi Qandil, the Egyptian novelist, is an alumnus of the university's Faculty of Medicine.埃及小说家穆罕默德·曼西·坎迪勒是该校医学院校友。
• Hamdy Doweidar, a physicist and academic, is also listed among the notable scholars associated with the university.物理学家、学者哈姆迪·杜韦达尔也被列为与该校相关的知名学者之一。
• Prof. Muhammad El-Kenawy, who served as president from 2014 to 2018, guided the university's growth in medical and engineering research.2014 年至 2018 年任校长的穆罕默德·肯纳维教授主导了该校在医学与工程研究方面的成长。
• Prof. Ashraf Muhammad Abdelbaset, president since 2018, has overseen the opening of new research units and the university's rise in global rankings.自 2018 年任校长的阿什拉夫·穆罕默德·阿卜杜勒·巴西特教授，见证了新研究单位的开设以及该校在全球排名中的上升。
• Prof. Ahmed Gamal Eldeen Mousa and Prof. Magdy Muhammad Abu Raya, both former presidents, also taught in the university's faculties.前校长艾哈迈德·贾迈勒·埃尔丁·穆萨教授与马吉迪·穆罕默德·阿布·拉亚教授也都曾在该校各学院任教。
• The university's medical graduates staff hospitals and health centres across the Delta, while its engineers and agriculturalists work throughout Egypt.该校的医学毕业生遍布三角洲各地的医院与卫生中心，其工程师与农业人才则服务于埃及全国。
• Prof. Yehya Ahmed Masoud, president from 1980 to 1983, oversaw the consolidation of the university's early faculties as the campus expanded.1980 年至 1983 年任校长的叶海亚·艾哈迈德·马苏德教授，在校园扩展之际主导了该校早期学院的巩固。
• The Faculty of Medicine has trained many thousands of physicians who now serve hospitals and clinics throughout the Nile Delta and beyond.医学院已培养出成千上万名医生，他们如今服务于尼罗河三角洲乃至更广地区的医院与诊所。