Al-Neelain University
Al-Neelain University is a Sudanese public university based in Khartoum, and is considered one of the largest universities in the country in terms of the number of students and faculties. Its official website states that it was established on 13 March 1993 by presidential decree, and it is the academic and administrative development of Cairo University Khartoum Branch, which was established in 1955 with three faculties: Arts, Commerce and Law.
In 1974 the Department of Mathematics was established as part of the branch's path of scientific expansion, and in 1991 the departments of Zoology, Botany, Chemistry and Physics were added, then the Department of Geology was added in 1994 after the university was established in its current form. After 1993 the faculties and programmes were completed to cover wide specialisations in the humanities, medical, engineering and applied sciences.
Today the university comprises 22 faculties according to its official website, including Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nursing Sciences, Physiotherapy, Optometry Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, Arts, Commerce, Law, Economic and Social Studies, Education and Fine Arts, in addition to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and specialised research centres. It awards bachelor's degrees, higher diplomas, master's degrees and doctorates in its various specialisations.
Among its faculties are also Science and Technology, Mathematical Sciences and Statistics, Islamic Studies, Agricultural Technology, Fisheries Sciences, Community Development, Petroleum and Minerals, and Medical Physics. The university's official website presents recent figures for its size, including more than one hundred thousand male and female students, about one thousand one hundred faculty members, and more than one hundred and forty-nine thousand graduates since its establishment, figures that reflect the breadth of its admissions base and its major role in absorbing Sudanese secondary education graduates.
The university's mission, as presented on its official website, is to provide higher education with professional and academic quality, encourage research that contributes to developing knowledge and meeting the needs of the state, create a research environment that stimulates innovation, and qualify competent graduates through multidisciplinary education and research. The university bears the motto "And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge", and it is a member of the Association of Arab Universities and the Association of African Universities, and its main headquarters is located in the Al-Mogran area in Khartoum near the confluence of the two Niles, from which its name came.
(Sources: Official website of Al-Neelain University neelain.edu.sd; The free encyclopedia Wikipedia — Al-Neelain University)
— Editorial Team