Lately I have noticed something from my conservations with my co-workers and friends who are graduated from Ain Shams University; I noticed some how they underestimate the Cairo University graduates believing that their university is much more better in knowledge than Cairo University.
I am a Cairo University graduate and I am very proud of my university and this sort of talk makes me sad for two reason :
1- I feel that they are saying to me indirectly that I am not good as they are because they are Ain Shams graduates where as I am from the losers University aka Cairo University where the education system is not tough , for instance they take more courses in their faculties in the semester than most of the faculties in Cairo University.
2- I think that is not acceptable to have this sort of rivalry “My university is better than yours” , we are all university graduates from national universities and we should be proud of this .
Already instead of having this Harvard Vs. Yale thing , why not to try improve both universities. Both universities suffer a lot whether from the security intervention in the campus or the administrative corruption.
I have been subjected the University descriminations as you are right now and I'd agree with you it's not good for both parties/universities. Nice topic to touch.
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both universities sucks.
ReplyDeletesqueeze me!!!? Ain what university ?
ReplyDeleteI'm doing my masters now in Germany in computational engineering, and I think all my professors know Cairo university, but Ain Shams, I'm not that sure, at least my supervisor was asking me if i know _that_ university when he received an admission application from one if its students
Proud Cairo university former student
جامعة اسكندرية أحلي منهم هما الاتنين :p
ReplyDeleteيا عم بسطاويسي متروح تنتحر احسن طالما انت قرفان من كل حاجة كده
ReplyDeleteNot trying to belittle Ain Shams students, but how could you possibly mention the name of that institution and Cairo University in the same sentence? I don't think there's even a comparison between the two, but then again, my father is a Cairo school of medicine graduate so I am biased ;)
ReplyDeleteThere´s also the possibility that neither are up to standard. (Cairo U was of course the best in africa and par with the european universities, but that was in the early sixties)
ReplyDeletewithout being bias to Cairo uni as am a medical student there, just check that:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=aw
That's the top 100 uni in Arab world!
Cairo uni is the 6th, MANSOURA uni is the 18th and guess what? Ain shams uni is the 22nd! =P
And also I don't have to mention that being a Cairo uni graduate is WAY more prestigious when u want to do ur masters or work abroad! ;)
ReplyDelete@Mikes, it is so bad and sad to be a subject of university or even school discrimination
ReplyDelete@Bastawisi , so what university did you graduate from ??
@Muslim human , of course everyone knows Cairo university still they do not like to admit it
@mido, lol
@Banoota, My mom told me the same thing when I told her
@Abu Hamza, unfortunately you are right both universities are suffering enough , but no one is paying attention to the fact that we are no longer recognized abroad like other universities in the region for instance like in Israel
@Ice queer,despite the fact that we are the sixth according to this ranking ,it still sad because other than AUC and AUB Cairo university is much older than those Saudi universities with my all respect to them , Cairo university without any overestimation graduated great minds that changed the Arab world
and yes it is much more prestigious to a Cairo Uni graduate abroad
I was also surprised that the Saudi unis made it into the world's top 500!!
ReplyDeleteCan u guy c that Cairo uni ranked 1000+ something while Ain Shams ranked 3000+!
ابو حمزة ادريس السولناوي said...
ReplyDeleteThere´s also the possibility that neither are up to standard. (Cairo U was of course the best in africa and par with the european universities, but that was in the early sixties)
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100% agreed! Most Uni. in Egypt the standard is decreasing, over crowded classes, malnutrition students that cannot focus on studies, personal problems and etc!
Cairo University is much better than any other university here in Egypt. And you co-workers 3andohom 3o2det na2s mesh aktar
ReplyDeletehiahia, I am going to Ain Shams to study Arabic,guess what, Cairo university doesn't have such a program
ReplyDeleteas a whole egypt is gowing down the drain ,...the west couldve helped us if we let them stay..all we can do is pray allah for guidance and showing us the light from the pit we are in...from carelessness in causing fires in historical buildings to killing of a pop beauty to killing animals (swine flu).it cant get worse..thx god i left egypt to study in oxford,ahmed zuheil and magdi yacoub would have been nothing if they stayed in egypt.
ReplyDeleteain shams has an odor
ReplyDeletewow so u think Egypt is going down the drain and so you did the right thing by leaving real patriotic right? if it's going down the drain what are you're efforts to improve it lets see oh yea going to different country changes you're country is on you're shoulder's if it's going down the drain then it's you're fault for letting it
ReplyDeletewhenever I meet a guy from Cairo univ."specially Engineering", he says: "you know we are much better than you and also we have higher ranking than you", So they force me to check strength of their studied courses, and get the weakness of materials studied.
ReplyDeleteI don't like such conversations but you always begin to talk trash on us.
I have read the post and comments but i still can't decide which of them i should apply to lol
ReplyDeleteSame haha
Deletesame lol
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