(According to the official page of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.)

The Higher Education Minister chairs a meeting of private and national university councils.

* Announcing the minimum application limits for private and national universities for the academic year 2025/2026.

* The minimums include the faculties of 66 private and national universities.

On Thursday, Dr. Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, chaired the joint meeting of the councils of private and national universities, in the presence of Dr. Abdel Wahab Ezzat, Secretary of the Private Universities Council, Dr. Maher Mesbah, Secretary of the National Universities Council, and members of the two councils, at the headquarters of the German University in Cairo (GUC).

The minister thanked Dr. Ashraf Mansour, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German University in Cairo, and Dr. Yasser Hegazy, President of the university, for hosting the joint meeting of the councils of private and national universities.

Dr. Ayman Ashour stressed the importance of educating students during the stages of applying to universities, to learn about the expansion and diversification of the higher education system and the addition of new scientific specializations during the current period, within the framework of the directives of the political leadership to expand the availability of higher education opportunities in all its paths in Egypt.

The minister pointed out the ministry's keenness to achieve integration between the tributaries of the higher education system, including public, private, national, and technological universities and branches of foreign universities, and to ensure quality in providing educational services that contribute to providing qualified graduates with the necessary skills for the labor market, in line with achieving the goals of the National Strategy for Higher Education and Scientific Research and Egypt's Vision 2030.

Dr. Adel Abdel Ghaffar, media advisor and official spokesperson for the ministry, said that the application of Egyptian and Azhar high school students as well as Arab and foreign equivalent certificates to enroll in private and national universities is done through direct application on the websites of these universities, which include 34 private universities and 32 national universities, according to Dr. Adel Abdel Ghaffar, the ministry's media advisor and spokesperson.

The spokesperson added that the joint meeting of the councils of private and national universities concluded to determine the minimum limits for applying to faculties in private and national universities, for students with high school diplomas and equivalent Arab and foreign certificates for the academic year 2025/2026.

- For students at Nile schools, the percentage of the general secondary school minimums also applies to these students.

- STEM school students are also subject to the minimum high school percentages, after equalizing their total by using the STEM coefficient of 1.25, multiplying by the students’ total, and the result is divided by the total number of grades (700).