Established by presidential decree in 2013, the University of Sadat City (USC) is an Egyptian Governmental University, which was set up in Sadat City as a branch of Menoufia University.
It is made up of eight colleges and institutes, which include the faculty of physical education; the faculty of tourism and hotels; the faculty of veterinary medicine; the faculty of pharmacy; the faculty of commerce; the faculty of education and the faculty of law, as well as the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute and the Institute of Environmental Studies and Research.
Its campus is modern and provides a selection of academic and non-academic facilities and services to its 41,000 students, including a library and administrative services.
Sadat City is in the Monufia Governorate, in Egypt and was named after the late president Anwar Sadat, who was in office from 1970 to 1981. Located 94 kilometres from Cairo and 128 kilometres from Alexandria, Sadat City is a first generation new urban community and one of Egypt’s largest industrial cities. It was built as part of a new town movement in Egypt that constituted the building of three self-contained cities and around five satellite towns around the capital to ease population pressure upon Cairo and expand urban growth and land reclamation in the desert. Sadat City is surrounded by a 350-kilometre squared green belt which means it is one of the Middle East’s most environmentally friendly industrial cities. Some 79,000 people live in Sadat City.
