ITS Research Intelligence

Egypt University Research Rankings

Compare Egypt universities using recent research output, citation impact, growth and a transparent research-performance score.

Research landscape

The current ITS Research Intelligence dataset contains 81 index-ready universities in Egypt. Across those institutions, the average five-year research output is approximately 5,852 works and the average five-year citation count is approximately 53,733. The average publication-growth signal is 43.8%. These figures describe the institutions that pass the public quality gate; they are not intended to represent every tertiary institution in the country.

Country rankings are useful for benchmarking because they reduce some of the structural differences that make global comparisons difficult. They still should not be treated as a complete assessment of institutional quality: teaching, student outcomes, funding levels, research field mix and institutional mission are outside this research-performance score. The value of the page is in seeing who is producing research, how that activity is changing, and where citation visibility is concentrated.

Top research universities in Egypt

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Cairo University	Egypt	77.8	54,552	430,865	6.6%
#2	Mansoura University	Egypt	76.0	31,701	290,662	-4.4%
#3	Al-Azhar University	Egypt	75.7	24,246	256,891	3.2%
#4	Alexandria University	Egypt	75.3	30,990	257,263	11.0%
#5	Zagazig University	Egypt	75.1	23,467	238,916	-9.7%
#6	Tanta University	Egypt	74.3	19,906	194,331	15.4%
#7	Kafrelsheikh University	Egypt	74.1	10,501	155,040	-0.4%
#8	Assiut University	Egypt	73.5	19,126	172,713	-1.0%
#9	Ain Shams University	Egypt	72.9	39,126	255,553	8.0%
#10	Minia University	Egypt	72.6	12,018	130,601	-2.4%
#11	Menoufia University	Egypt	71.8	15,817	142,438	-9.7%
#12	Beni-Suef University	Egypt	71.8	12,082	116,115	8.4%
#13	Suez Canal University	Egypt	71.4	12,121	110,867	6.8%
#14	South Valley University	Egypt	70.9	9,343	100,232	-6.7%
#15	Benha University	Egypt	70.8	17,831	142,384	-1.9%
#16	Suez University	Egypt	70.1	5,183	67,068	40.3%
#17	Future University in Egypt	Egypt	69.8	5,798	86,194	-34.7%
#18	Fayoum University	Egypt	69.8	7,618	77,334	15.2%
#19	Helwan University	Egypt	69.3	12,971	103,475	15.2%
#20	Aswan University	Egypt	69.2	6,798	70,183	-5.4%
#21	Higher Institute of Engineering	Egypt	68.3	5,230	55,192	57.3%
#22	Sohag University	Egypt	68.3	8,064	68,266	9.5%
#23	Damanhour University	Egypt	68.0	5,735	59,781	0.6%
#24	American University in Cairo	Egypt	67.7	4,369	47,066	6.8%
#25	Port Said University	Egypt	67.4	5,708	56,174	12.9%
#26	University of Sadat City	Egypt	67.3	3,569	42,299	14.8%
#27	Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology	Egypt	67.2	3,039	33,716	62.9%
#28	Delta University for Science and Technology	Egypt	66.7	2,982	40,997	29.3%
#29	Damietta University	Egypt	66.4	4,878	46,992	13.6%
#30	October 6 University	Egypt	65.8	3,447	24,503	43.7%
#31	British University in Egypt	Egypt	65.6	4,136	40,395	32.4%
#32	Horus University – Egypt	Egypt	65.6	1,517	24,775	105.0%
#33	Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport	Egypt	65.3	4,690	43,271	-10.6%
#34	Badr University in Cairo	Egypt	65.1	2,606	26,570	92.1%
#35	Egyptian Russian University	Egypt	64.2	2,518	22,225	136.1%
#36	Sinai University	Egypt	64.1	1,822	19,701	97.5%
#37	Zewail City of Science and Technology	Egypt	64.1	1,606	19,810	14.5%
#38	Nile University	Egypt	62.8	1,761	18,853	18.4%
#39	German University in Cairo	Egypt	62.3	2,562	21,351	22.5%
#40	Pharos University in Alexandria	Egypt	61.7	2,053	16,949	94.3%
#41	Misr University for Science and Technology	Egypt	61.6	3,124	22,075	57.0%
#42	Nahda University	Egypt	61.0	1,174	12,622	22.5%
#43	El Shorouk Academy	Egypt	60.9	1,037	10,774	103.5%
#44	Heliopolis University	Egypt	60.5	1,115	11,549	41.7%
#45	October University of Modern Sciences and Arts	Egypt	60.4	2,531	19,063	39.3%
#46	Higher Technological Institute	Egypt	60.2	1,231	11,648	33.6%
#47	Ahram Canadian University	Egypt	59.9	1,519	12,926	72.2%
#48	Arish University	Egypt	59.5	1,869	12,828	80.6%
#49	Military Technical College	Egypt	57.9	1,818	12,779	22.3%
#50	Obour Institutes	Egypt	57.5	607	7,392	-27.4%
#51	Misr International University	Egypt	57.5	1,513	10,497	31.6%
#52	Modern University for Information and Technology	Egypt	57.4	1,270	9,800	40.6%
#53	New Giza University	Egypt	56.3	922	6,113	131.4%
#54	Matrouh University	Egypt	55.3	821	7,291	1.3%
#55	Alexandria Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology	Egypt	54.3	587	4,791	15.1%
#56	Assiut University Hospitals	Egypt	52.4	839	4,460	-0.6%
#57	Modern Academy	Egypt	52.3	772	4,068	71.1%
#58	Canadian International College	Egypt	51.7	512	3,851	40.3%
#59	Luxor University	Egypt	51.4	721	4,241	32.2%
#60	Cairo Higher Institute	Egypt	49.7	455	2,856	58.1%
#61	Armed Forces College of Medicine	Egypt	49.6	844	3,549	39.9%
#62	AlAlamein International University	Egypt	49.1	334	2,730	127.4%
#63	Higher Institute for Tourism, Hotels and Computer	Egypt	48.5	456	2,413	59.2%
#64	High Institute for Management Sciences	Egypt	47.7	318	1,716	304.1%
#65	Egyptian Universities Network	Egypt	46.6	125	1,285	27.7%
#66	Sphinx University	Egypt	45.7	248	3,085	-1.2%
#67	Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology	Egypt	45.7	299	2,937	-16.5%
#68	October High Institute For Enginnering and Technology	Egypt	45.2	208	2,043	114.0%
#69	Sadat Academy for Management Sciences	Egypt	44.8	437	2,020	8.8%
#70	National Telecommunications Institute	Egypt	44.2	245	2,112	-11.7%
#71	Arab Studies and Research Institute	Egypt	44.0	184	376	563.6%
#72	French University of Egypt	Egypt	42.7	258	1,396	54.9%
#73	Egyptian e-Learning University	Egypt	39.6	138	1,412	17.9%
#74	Higher Institute of Applied Arts	Egypt	39.6	360	767	91.4%
#75	Arab Open University	Egypt	39.0	133	646	156.3%
#76	Thebes Academy	Egypt	38.9	154	1,515	10.2%
#77	International Islamic Center for Population Studies and Research	Egypt	38.2	134	643	128.1%
#78	Academy of Arts	Egypt	38.2	673	724	-9.7%
#79	International Academy for Engineering and Media Science	Egypt	37.8	242	867	50.0%
#80	Higher Institute for Qualitative Studies	Egypt	35.4	170	390	-27.2%
#81	Senghor University	Egypt	31.2	104	114	88.0%

Research fields where Egypt universities rank

Number of Egypt universities in the top 100 of each ITS research-field ranking.

Chemistry (7)Dentistry (6)Mathematics (3)Chemical Engineering (2)Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (2)Energy (1)

Transparent methodology

How ITS Research Score v3 is constructed

One formula applies to every index-ready institution, using the five most recent complete calendar years: 25% research output, 25% citations, 20% h-index and 5% i10-index (log-normalized so the largest universities do not dominate linearly), 15% citation impact (the institution’s percentile on citations per work, reduced below 500 works so small samples cannot win by chance), 5% publication growth and 5% international-collaboration share. When collaboration data is not yet available, the other weights are rescaled.

Data-quality controls: the unfinished current year is never counted, and a year in which recorded output jumps to more than three times the institution’s usual level while being at least 90% open access is treated as a bulk dataset or repository deposit and scored at the usual level. An affiliation check also removes institutions whose papers mostly do not name them in the author address (OpenAlex sometimes assigns a large university’s papers to a namesake school or college). Raw data are kept and every adjustment is logged. Open-access share and topic diversity are published as separate rankings and do not affect the main score. Citation impact is not field-normalized.

These indicators assess research activity only. They do not measure teaching quality, student experience, employability, reputation, finances or accreditation. Missing data are left missing rather than fabricated.