Thanks to the (late) Doctor Souad Kafafi, we now have the university as she is the main founder and she established the first Board of Trustees in 1996 till 2004. Currently, Mr. Khaled El-Toukhy is the chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Mr. Khaled Altoukhy
Chancellor, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.Misr University for Science and Technology has been founded by virtue of the presidential Decree NO.245/1996. Then university was founded by a group led by the late prof. Dr. Souad Kafafi. The founders believed in the importance of private higher education. They were focused on human development which they understood to be the route to achieving development in all other fields in Egypt as well as the rest of the region. The university uses the credit hour system to allow the students to develop independent personalities as done in internationally renowned institutes. The students are free to choose programs and specializations to suit their own aptitude and talents for the good. This system helps stimulate thinking and self study in students that paves way for creativity and self development by the means of modern technology and exploiting it to develop much needed skills The university realizes that scientific research is imperative for success in any sector and has gathered several outstanding researchers as well as modern equipment that are able to carry through the type of research that is needed to benefit the society the most. The university maintains a group of service centers to include the society in its progress and activities by providing services to the general public in all fields. The value that this institution places in knowledge is because of the belief that knowledge not only liberates the mind but also paves way to innovation in every sector, therefore, creating the new generations’ capability of self progress and prosperity.
Professor Dr. Souad Kafafi
FounderMisr University for Science and Technology (MUST) is one of the major private universities in Egypt. The university is a major educational institution and a national resource of the country. The university serves through its central campus in the six of October city. The university was founded with the core purpose of high-quality academic teaching, research, and public service in order to build the capacity of individual students and help them develop enlightened and critical thinking, understanding, and the capacity to act on these values. The university was founded to shape society as well as individuals via the dissemination of knowledge. The university offers various degree programs in undergraduate as well as post-graduate levels in both liberal arts as well as science. University’s activities are mainly focused on research to participate in the generation’s advancement of knowledge and to prepare mature scholars. Able students are offered the opportunity to select from a wide spectrum of lifelong learning needs via the university’s programs and find multiple new approaches & solutions to contemporary problems. The university is a representative of the human commitment to the betterment of the world at an international scale and this objective is delivered through its exploration of new ideas and preparation of its students as quality citizens.