October 6 University


October 6 University is a private university located in Giza, 6th of October City, Egypt. It was established by the Republican Decree no. 243 in 1996.
O6U is in the 6th of October City, 32 km from downtown Cairo. The campus consists of four education buildings, the teaching hospital, and the hostel for female students, while the central library and male students hostel are 150 meters from the campus.
All the awarded degrees are accredited and validated by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities.
O6U is a member of the Association of Arab Universities since 1997 and the Association of African Universities.

Faculties

  1. Medicine
  2. Pharmacy
  3. Dentistry
  4. Applied Medical Sciences
  5. Engineering
  6. Physical Therapy
  7. Information Systems & Computer Science
  8. Applied Arts
  9. Media & Mass Communication
  10. Economics & Management
  11. Languages & Translation
  12. Education
  13. Social Science
  14. Tourism & Hotel Management
  15. Nursing

    Postgraduate studies

An academic cooperation agreement was signed between many government universities and October 6 University. It was endorsed by the supreme council of national and private universities on June 4, 2011, by which O6U is allowed to offer postgraduate programs in collaboration with Theses Universities and degrees will be granted by them.

October 6 University Hospital

The hospital is built on a surface area of 45,000 square meters. It has a capacity of 360 beds, 20% out of them offer free-of-charge service for education purposes.
Most of the hospital's capacity is made for its dental students, It serves the public community with totally free services done by their dental students and under the supervision of its facilities.

Institutes

The university has many institutes of higher education under the name Culture & Science City.
The Culture and Science City has two campuses: the first is in 6 October City and the second is in Sheraton and distributed per the following locations:
6 October Campus
Sheraton Campus
  • Higher Institute for Optics Technology
  • Egyptian Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotels
  • Higher Institute for Languages

    Library

Six October University Library is considered one of the largest, well–stocked university libraries in Egypt. SOUL is outside the university campus and is designed to be an integrated and all–embracing cultural complex to support the instructional and research needs of university community and beyond. SOUL learning technology consists of the libraries, academic computing services, center for learning and teaching.
SOUL offers online and offline access to databases, e-books and imprint. It houses thousands of volumes, microfilms, digital collection, multimedia materials, and serial titles.

Notable alumni

  • Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer and actor
  • Karim Zulfikar, Egyptian businessman
  • Dina El-Sherbeeny, Egyptian actress
  • Amr Yassin, Egyptian screenwriter
  • Mohamed M. Farid, politician