page_title: German University in Cairo
hierarchical_section_title: German University in Cairo
caption_attribution_description: English: German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder &amp; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the opening, October 2003
context_page_description: The German University in Cairo is a private non-profit university in New Cairo City, Egypt. GUC was founded in 2002 by the presidential decree 27/2002 and according to the Egyptian law number 101/1992. The University of Stuttgart, the University of Ulm, the University of Tübingen, the University of Mannheim, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the German Academic Exchange Service, the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, are among the main academic supporters of the GUC.
  GUC offers more than 70 study programs leading to the degrees of B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. according to the Bologna Process. The language of instruction is English. The study programs are designed according to German standards and are accredited in Egypt and Germany. Far more than 10,000 students are enrolled at GUC, which has become the largest transnational education institute from the German perspective.
  GUC is located in the Southeast of Cairo. The campus of 577.000 m² includes various sports facilities, an industry park, a solar park as well as state-of-the-art laboratories for the integration of education, research and application.
context_section_description: The German University in Cairo (abbreviated to GUC; Arabic: الجامعة الألمانية بالقاهرة‎ El Gam‘a El Almāniya Bel Qāhira) is a private non-profit university in New Cairo City, Egypt. GUC was founded in 2002 by the presidential decree 27/2002 and according to the Egyptian law number 101/1992. The University of Stuttgart, the University of Ulm, the University of Tübingen, the University of Mannheim, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, are among the main academic supporters of the GUC.
  GUC offers more than 70 study programs leading to the degrees of B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. according to the Bologna Process. The language of instruction is English. The study programs are designed according to German standards and are accredited in Egypt and Germany (by ACQUIN). Far more than 10,000 students are enrolled at GUC, which has become the largest transnational education institute from the German perspective.
  GUC is located in the Southeast of Cairo. The campus of 577.000 m² includes various sports facilities, an industry park, a solar park  as well as state-of-the-art laboratories for the integration of education, research and application. GUC also operates a guesthouse in Ulm and a campus in Berlin as well as multiple student support offices in Germany with the aim of fostering the mobility of students, researchers and instructors to Germany.
caption: The inauguration ceremony of the GUC in 2003, attended by then-president Hosni Mubarak and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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