Tanta University

Tanta University (Arabic: جامعة طنطا) is a public university in Tanta, the capital of Gharbia Governorate in Egypt's central Nile Delta, operating under the scientific supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education.坦塔大学（阿拉伯语：جامعة طنطا）是埃及尼罗河三角洲中部西部省省会坦塔市的一所公立大学，受高等教育部的科研监督。

It began in 1962 as the Tanta Faculty of Medicine of Alexandria University, became an independent institution in 1972 as the University of the Middle Delta, and received its present name in 1973, which makes it Egypt's fifth university after Cairo, Alexandria, Ain Shams and Assiut.该校1962年作为亚历山大大学的坦塔医学院起步，1972年以「中三角洲大学」之名独立，1973年改用现名，由此成为继开罗、亚历山大、艾因夏姆斯与艾斯尤特之后的埃及第五所大学。

It enrols 128,933 students and employs 6,452 academic staff, and in the 2027 rankings it sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings, the 1001-1200 band of Times Higher Education and 428th place in U.S. News for 2026-27.该校在读学生128933人，学术人员6452人；在2027年榜单中处于QS世界大学排名1401+并列区间、泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名1001至1200区间，并在2026至2027年度U.S. News全球大学排名中位列第428位。

History

Higher education reached Tanta in 1962, when a presidential decree created a Faculty of Medicine in the city as a branch of Alexandria University, giving Gharbia its first medical school, its first university-level teachers and the nucleus around which the future university would be built.高等教育于1962年进入坦塔，当年一项总统令在该市设立隶属于亚历山大大学的医学院，使西部省首次拥有医学院、首批大学层次师资，也奠定了未来大学赖以生长的核心。
A second decree in 1969 added a Faculty of Commerce built on the Higher Commercial Institute, a Faculty of Science and a Teachers College in Tanta, plus a Faculty of Agriculture in Kafr El-Sheikh, all still administered by Alexandria University.1969年的另一项总统令增设了以高等商业学院为基础的商学院、理学院和坦塔师范专科，并在卡夫尔谢赫增设农学院，这些单位当时仍由亚历山大大学管理。
In 1970 Alexandria University organised its scattered Delta units into a Tanta branch that grouped medicine, commerce, science, the teachers college and the Kafr El-Sheikh agriculture faculty under a single local administration.1970年，亚历山大大学把分散在三角洲的单位整合为坦塔分校，将医学、商学、理学、师范与卡夫尔谢赫农学置于同一地方管理层之下。
Law No. 49 of 1972 created the University of the Middle Delta with its seat in Tanta, fulfilling a long-standing demand for a university serving the central Delta rather than the distant metropolises of Cairo and Alexandria.1972年第49号法律创设以坦塔为校址的中三角洲大学，回应了当地长期以来的诉求，即建立一所服务三角洲中部、而非远赴开罗与亚历山大的大学。
Presidential Decree No. 54 of 1973 changed the name to Tanta University, and in the same year the Faculty of Commerce and the Faculty of Arts were established as the institution's first humanities units.1973年第54号总统令将校名改为坦塔大学，同年商学院与文学院成立，成为该校最早的人文学科单位。
In 1974 the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Agriculture in Shebin El-Kom were transferred from Ain Shams University to Tanta, extending the young university southward into what was then Menoufia governorate.1974年，舍宾库姆的教育学院与农学院从艾因夏姆斯大学划归坦塔，使这所年轻大学向南延伸至当时的梅努菲亚省。
The executive regulations of 1975 listed arts, commerce, science, medicine with dentistry and pharmacy as sections, education, the two agriculture faculties and the Kafr El-Sheikh teachers college among Tanta's units.1975年的实施细则把文学、商学、理学、医学（牙科与药学当时为医学下属部门）、教育、两所农学院以及卡夫尔谢赫师范系列入坦塔大学的建制。
In 1976 dentistry, pharmacy, law, engineering, veterinary medicine and education in Kafr El-Sheikh were added as full faculties, while the new Menoufia University took away the Shebin El-Kom units in the same reorganisation.1976年，牙科、药学、法学、工程、兽医以及卡夫尔谢赫教育升格为独立学院；同一轮调整中，新成立的梅努菲亚大学接收了舍宾库姆各单位。
By 1977 the faculties of science and of education in Tanta had their own separate buildings and administrations, and the Kafr El-Sheikh agriculture faculty had become the agricultural centre of the northern Delta branch.至1977年，坦塔的理学院与教育学院已拥有独立校舍和管理机构，卡夫尔谢赫农学院则成为北三角洲分部的农业中心。
The Faculty of Law was established in 1981, the same year a formal Kafr El-Sheikh branch was created with the agriculture and education faculties that had grown there since 1969.法学院于1981年成立，同年学校正式设立卡夫尔谢赫分校，纳入自1969年以来在当地成长起来的农学与教育单位。
In 1982 the Higher Institute of Nursing was founded in Tanta and a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was added, two moves that completed the medical and agricultural clusters of the Delta campus.1982年，坦塔高等护理学院创立，兽医学院亦获增设，这两步补齐了三角洲校区的医学与农业集群。
The Kafr El-Sheikh branch was formally constituted in 1983 with education, agriculture, specific education, veterinary medicine, commerce, engineering and arts faculties, effectively a second university in waiting.卡夫尔谢赫分校于1983年正式组建，下设教育、农业、专门教育、兽医、商学、工程与文学院，实际上已是一所蓄势待发的第二所大学。
The Faculty of Specific Education began in 1989 under the Ministry of Education and only joined Tanta University in 1998 by Presidential Decree No. 329, a rare case of a teacher-training college transferring between ministries.专门教育学院1989年创办时隶属教育部，直至1998年才依据第329号总统令并入坦塔大学，成为教师培训学院跨部门划转的少见案例。
A Faculty of Agriculture was opened in Tanta itself in 1992, separating the Delta teaching and experimental farms from the older Kafr El-Sheikh agriculture faculty.1992年，坦塔本校设立农学院，使三角洲的教学与实验农场与历史更久的卡夫尔谢赫农学院分开。
The Faculty of Physical Education followed in 1994, giving the university a dedicated centre for sports science, teacher training and the preparation of national coaches.体育学院于1994年设立，使学校拥有体育科学、师资培养与国家教练培训的专门中心。
On 29 April 2000 the Higher Institute of Nursing, until then attached to the Faculty of Medicine, became the independent Faculty of Nursing, a change that raised nursing education to degree level.2000年4月29日，此前附属于医学院的高等护理学院成为独立的护理学院，使护理教育提升至学位层次。
In August 2006 the Kafr El-Sheikh branch was detached by Presidential Decree No. 129 and became Kafr El-Sheikh University, leaving Tanta with its Gharbia faculties and a much more compact footprint.2006年8月，卡夫尔谢赫分校依据第129号总统令脱离，成为卡夫尔谢赫大学，坦塔大学此后只保留西部省各学院，办学版图明显收缩。
The Faculty of Computer and Information was established in 2019, the newest major faculty, and it extended the university's offerings into artificial intelligence, data science and information systems.计算机与信息学院于2019年成立，是该校最新的主要学院，把专业布局延伸至人工智能、数据科学与信息系统。
On 26 March 2025 Prof. Mohamed Hussein Mahmoud, a structural engineer and former vice-president of the university, was appointed president by presidential decree, taking over from the interim leadership.2025年3月26日，结构工程学者、曾任该校副校长的穆罕默德·侯赛因·马哈茂德教授依据总统令出任校长，接替临时领导班子。
The 2006 split explains why Tanta today concentrates on Gharbia rather than the whole central Delta, and why its history is often told as a sequence of faculties added one decade at a time.2006年的分家解释了坦塔大学今日为何集中于西部省而非整个三角洲中部，也解释了其校史为何常按十年一段、逐院增设的方式来讲述。
By the 2020s Tanta had become a comprehensive university with 15 faculties, more than 128,000 students and a hospital network serving the central Delta, completing its transformation from a provincial medical branch.到2020年代，坦塔大学已成为拥有15个学院、12.8万余名学生以及服务三角洲中部医院网络的综合性大学，完成了从省属医学分支到综合院校的转变。

Academics

Tanta University is organised into fifteen faculties, grouped by the university into medical, scientific, educational and administrative-human sectors, plus two specialised institutes.坦塔大学下设十五个学院，校方将其归为医学、科学、教育、行政与人文四大板块，另设两个专门学院。
The medical sector comprises the faculties of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing, and it is the oldest and most selective cluster, tracing its origin to the 1962 medical school.医学板块包括医学、药学、牙科与护理四个学院，是历史最久、选拔最严的集群，其源头可追溯至1962年的医学院。
The scientific sector covers science, engineering, agriculture, computers and information, and applied arts, with laboratory and studio teaching concentrated on the Tanta and Sierbay sites.科学板块包括理学、工程、农业、计算机与信息以及应用艺术，实验与工作室教学集中在坦塔与谢尔拜校区。
The educational sector consists of education, sports science and specific education, the last of which trains art, music and home-economics teachers for Egyptian schools.教育板块由教育、体育科学与专门教育组成，其中专门教育为埃及中小学培养美术、音乐与家政教师。
The administrative and human sector brings together business, arts and law, and it accounts for a large share of the university's undergraduate enrolment in commerce and arts.行政与人文板块由商学、文学与法学组成，其中商学与文学承担了该校本科招生的很大一部分。
In its 2008 self-reported statistics the university counted 131 scientific departments and 2,686 courses, a scale that reflects the breadth of a comprehensive Delta university rather than a specialist institute.该校2008年自报统计显示有131个教研室与2686门课程，这一规模体现的是三角洲综合性大学的广度，而非专科院校的窄口径。
The 2026-27 U.S. News profile records 128,933 students, including 1,408 international students, and 6,452 academic staff, a student-staff ratio of roughly twenty to one.2026至2027年度U.S. News资料显示，该校有学生128933人，其中留学生1408人，学术人员6452人，生师比约为二十比一。
In the same reporting year the university awarded 26,891 bachelor's degrees, 1,504 master's degrees and 699 doctorates, one of the largest degree outputs in the Egyptian public system.同一统计年度，该校授予学士学位26891个、硕士学位1504个、博士学位699个，学位产出在埃及公立高校中位居前列。
The Faculty of Medicine is the founding faculty and teaches through basic, internal and surgical divisions, with clinical training delivered in the Tanta University Hospitals complex.医学院是创校学院，按基础、内科与外科三大门类教学，临床训练在坦塔大学医院综合体内完成。
Tanta University Hospitals include the New Surgical Hospital, the 900900 Hospital and the Children's Cancer Hospital, which together form one of the Delta's main referral networks.坦塔大学医院包括新外科医院、900900医院与儿童肿瘤医院，三者共同构成三角洲主要的转诊网络之一。
The Faculty of Engineering, established in the 1970s, teaches civil, electrical, mechanical and architectural engineering and supplies much of the technical workforce of Gharbia's manufacturing towns.工学院建于1970年代，开设土木、电气、机械与建筑工程专业，为西部省各制造业城镇输送了大量技术人才。
The Faculty of Agriculture in Tanta runs experimental fields in the Nile Delta and works on field crops, horticulture, dairy science and plant protection, applied to the most intensively farmed land in Egypt.坦塔农学院在尼罗河三角洲经营试验田，从事大田作物、园艺、乳品科学与植物保护研究，直接服务于埃及耕作强度最高的土地。
The Faculty of Computer and Information, founded in 2019, offers programmes in computer science, information systems and artificial intelligence and collaborates with the university's electronic exam centre.计算机与信息学院建于2019年，开设计算机科学、信息系统与人工智能专业，并与学校的电子考试中心合作。
The Nursing Technical Institute and the Higher Institute of Computers and Information provide two-year and applied training that sits alongside the degree faculties.护理技术学院与高等计算机与信息学院提供两年制及应用型培训，与学位学院并行。
The central library and its faculty branches held, by the university's 2008 count, 172,594 purchased Arabic books, 112,543 purchased foreign books, 10,718 periodicals and 20,307 theses.按该校2008年统计，中央图书馆及各学院分馆藏有采购阿拉伯文图书172594册、采购外文图书112543册、期刊10718种、学位论文20307篇。
An international students' affairs centre coordinates admission, housing advice and Arabic-language support for the 1,408 foreign students recorded in the 2026-27 profile.国际学生事务中心为2026至2027年度资料所记的1408名留学生协调招生、住宿咨询与阿拉伯语支持。

Campus

The university's main address is Al-Geish Street in Tanta, a street known in older records as El-Bahr Street, in the heart of the Gharbia capital.该校主地址为坦塔市阿尔盖什街，旧档案中称滨海街，位于西部省省会中心地带。
Tanta lies about 90 kilometres north of Cairo and 120 kilometres south-east of Alexandria, and its railway station is one of the busiest junctions on the Cairo-Alexandria line.坦塔位于开罗以北约90公里、亚历山大东南约120公里，其火车站是开罗至亚历山大铁路线上最繁忙的枢纽之一。
The Medical Complex gathers the Faculty of Medicine, the university hospitals and the health-science institutes into a single clinical quarter on the edge of the city centre.医学综合体把医学院、大学医院与健康科学各研究所集中在市中心边缘，形成单一临床街区。
The Sierbay complex houses the science and engineering faculties, their laboratories and several student facilities, and it is the largest single teaching site outside the medical quarter.谢尔拜综合体容纳理学与工程学院、其实验室及若干学生设施，是医学街区之外最大的单一教学场地。
A community-service and environmental-development building, the commerce faculty, the education faculty and the specific-education faculty occupy separate sites in the city rather than a walled campus.社区服务与环境发展大楼、商学院、教育学院与专门教育学院各自占据城中独立场地，而非共处一个有围墙的校园。
The university's three teaching hospitals, including the Children's Cancer Hospital, are clustered with the medical faculty and function as a regional tertiary-care destination.该校三所教学医院（含儿童肿瘤医院）与医学院相邻聚集，成为区域三级医疗的目的地。
The central library sits among the older faculty buildings and serves both students and the wider Tanta public, with reading rooms and a thesis collection of more than 20,000 items.中央图书馆位于较老的学院建筑群中，既服务学生也向坦塔公众开放，设有阅览室与两万余篇学位论文的特藏。
Because the faculties are spread across Tanta, student life spills into the city's commercial streets, tea houses and the riverside roads rather than staying inside a single campus gate.由于各学院散布全城，学生生活延伸到城市的商业街、茶馆与河畔道路，而不局限于一扇校园大门之内。

Reputation

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Tanta University is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group that QS reports as a tie rather than a single position. Because QS publishes the tail of its table as an open band, the label is best read as a placement tier shared with many institutions rather than an exact rank.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，坦塔大学处于1401+并列区间，这是QS以并列方式发布的开放式末段，而非单一具体名次。由于QS把榜单尾段作为开放区间发布，这一标签应理解为多校共享的层级而非精确排名。
Times Higher Education places the university in the 1001-1200 band of its 2027 world ranking, a position it has held in the four-digit range for several editions.泰晤士高等教育将其列入2027年世界大学排名1001至1200区间，该校已连续多个版本停留在四位数区间。
U.S. News ranks Tanta 428th globally in its 2026-27 Best Global Universities list, the strongest of the university's four main ranking results. The U.S. News methodology emphasises research reputation and bibliometric indicators rather than undergraduate admissions or teaching surveys.U.S. News在2026至2027年度全球最佳大学榜单中把坦塔大学列为全球第428位，这是该校四项主榜成绩中最好的一项。该榜单的方法侧重科研声誉与文献计量指标，而非本科招生或教学调查。
The university does not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, although its own ranking page still displays an older Shanghai band of 901-1000.该校未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，尽管其自设排名页面仍展示着较早版本的软科901至1000区间。
In the 2023 QS edition Tanta rose 54 places to 1,328th globally and to eighth among the twenty Egyptian universities then ranked, a trajectory its international office still cites.在2023年QS版本中，坦塔大学全球排名上升54位至第1328位，并在当时上榜的20所埃及大学中位列第八，这一轨迹仍被其国际处引用。
Within Egypt the university is one of the principal public universities of the Delta, alongside Mansoura and Zagazig, and it is the only public university headquartered in Gharbia.在埃及国内，坦塔大学与曼苏拉、扎加齐格并列为三角洲主要公立大学，也是唯一以西部省为总部的公立大学。
Its 1,408 international students, drawn mainly from other Arab states and African countries, make it a significant destination for Arabic-medium medical and engineering study.该校1408名留学生主要来自其他阿拉伯国家与非洲国家，使其成为阿拉伯语授课医学与工程教育的重要目的地。
The Tanta University Hospitals network gives the institution a clinical reputation that outruns its research ranking, particularly in oncology, surgery and paediatric care for the central Delta.坦塔大学医院网络赋予该校超越其科研排名的临床声誉，尤其在肿瘤、外科与三角洲中部儿科医疗方面。
Tanta's ranking profile is typical of large Egyptian public universities: very high undergraduate enrolment and strong national service, but limited citation impact in global research indices.坦塔的排名画像符合埃及大型公立大学的典型特征：本科生规模极大、国家服务职能突出，但在全球科研指标中的引用影响有限。

Student life

The university has no widely publicised Latin motto, and its ceremonial identity rests instead on its 1972 foundation as the Middle Delta's own university and on the Arabic name جامعة طنطا.该校没有广为宣传的拉丁文校训，其礼仪性认同更多建立在1972年作为中三角洲自办大学而创立这一节点，以及阿拉伯语校名「جامعة طنطا」之上。
Tanta's annual mulid of El Sayed El Badawi, held around October, draws pilgrims from across Egypt and briefly transforms the streets around the university into a fairground of lights and food stalls.坦塔每年10月前后举行赛义德·巴达维圣纪，吸引全埃及的信众，短短数日便把大学周边街道变成灯火与食摊的集市。
The city is famous for its sweets, especially the layered pastry sold as Tanta sweets, and students treat the shops near Al-Geish Street as a standard part of campus routine.坦塔以甜点闻名，尤其是被称为「坦塔甜点」的层叠酥点，阿尔盖什街附近的店铺已成学生日常的一部分。
Because Tanta is a railway junction, many students commute daily from nearby Delta towns rather than living in halls, and the station fills with students before the morning lectures.由于坦塔是铁路枢纽，许多学生每天从三角洲周边城镇通勤而非住校，早课前火车站里挤满学生。
The Faculty of Physical Education, founded in 1994, runs the university's main sports programmes and prepares teachers and coaches for schools across Gharbia.1994年成立的体育学院承担学校主要体育项目，并为西部省各学校培养体育教师与教练。
Student unions and faculty clubs organise the annual university sports tournament, cultural weeks and volunteer campaigns that are coordinated through the education and student sector.学生会与各学院社团组织年度校运会、文化周与志愿活动，由教育与学生事务板块统一协调。
The university's location in the Delta means that its student body is overwhelmingly local, with family networks, hometown loyalties and Ramadan and Eid rhythms shaping the academic calendar.地处三角洲使该校生源以本地为主，家庭网络、乡土认同以及斋月与开斋节的节奏共同塑造着校历。
For international students, the Arabic-language support centre and the international students' welfare unit organise orientation, city tours and holiday gatherings that connect them with Egyptian peers.对留学生而言，阿拉伯语支持中心与国际学生福利单位组织迎新、城市参观与节日聚会，帮助他们与埃及同学建立联系。

Notable people

Mohamed Hussein Mahmoud, a professor of structural engineering and former vice-president, became president of the university on 26 March 2025 and has emphasised hospital expansion, international partnerships and digital teaching.穆罕默德·侯赛因·马哈茂德是结构工程教授、曾任副校长，2025年3月26日出任校长，主张扩建医院、拓展国际合作并推进数字化教学。
Eman Ghoneim, a geomorphologist and professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, led the 2024 study that identified the long-lost Ahramat branch of the Nile near the Giza pyramids.伊曼·戈奈姆是地貌学家、北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校教授，2024年领导研究识别出吉萨金字塔附近久已消失的尼罗河「阿赫拉马特」支流。
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962-2018), a physician and novelist, created the Paranormal series and is credited with popularising horror and science fiction for a mass Egyptian readership, with more than 200 titles to his name.艾哈迈德·哈立德·陶菲克（1962至2018）是医生与小说家，创作《超自然》系列，被视为把恐怖与科幻小说推向埃及大众读者的代表人物，一生著述逾200种。
Nabil Farouk (1956-2020), a prolific writer of police and science-fiction novels, graduated from the university's medical faculty and created the long-running Ragol Al-Mostahil series.纳比勒·法鲁克（1956至2020）是高产的警探与科幻小说作家，毕业于该校医学院，创作了长销系列《不可能的人》。
Bassem Amin, a chess grandmaster and multiple African champion, is counted among the university's alumni and has represented Egypt at successive Chess Olympiads.巴西姆·阿明是国际象棋特级大师、多次非洲冠军，被列为该校校友，并连续代表埃及参加国际象棋奥林匹克团体赛。
Ghada Abdel Aal, a pharmacist and writer, is best known for her blog-turned-novel I Want to Get Married, which satirised the marriage market of young Egyptian professionals.加达·阿卜杜勒·阿尔是药剂师与作家，以博客结集小说《我想结婚》闻名，作品讽刺了埃及年轻职业群体的婚姻市场。
Bishop Epiphanius (1954-2018), abbot of the Monastery of Saint Macarius and a graduate in medicine, was one of the Coptic Church's most influential monastic leaders.主教埃皮法尼乌斯（1954至2018）是圣马卡里乌斯修道院院长、医学专业毕业生，也是科普特教会最具影响力的修道领袖之一。
Amr Sobhy, a writer, poet and technology entrepreneur, studied at Tanta and has worked at the intersection of Arabic literature and digital publishing.阿姆鲁·苏卜希是作家、诗人与科技创业者，曾就读于坦塔大学，长期从事阿拉伯文学与数字出版的交叉实践。
Bassem Adel, a cardiologist and writer, combines medical practice with essays and fiction and is regularly listed among the university's literary alumni.巴西姆·阿德尔是心脏病科医生与作家，在行医之余写作随笔与小说，常被列为该校文学界校友。
Ayman Ashour, Egypt's minister of higher education and scientific research, announced the 2025 presidential appointment of the university's president, placing the institution within the national reform of public universities.艾曼·阿舒尔是埃及高等教育与科学研究部长，2025年宣布了该校校长的总统任命，把学校纳入全国公立大学改革进程。