At the start, AUC was meant to exist as each the preparatory school & the university. A preparatory school opened in October 5 1920, with 142 students around 2 classes that were same to the go ii years of an American high school. A 1st sheepskaround issued were junior college-level certificates given to Twenty students in 1923. At a start an institution lone for males, the university enrolled its 1st female student around 1928, a equivalent month where the 1st university class graduated by having ii B.The.'s & 1 B.S. degrees awarded. Master's degrees were 1st offered around 1950. AUC's high school section, referred to as a Lincoln School, was discontinued inside 1951.

Inside 1960, AUC enrolled approximately 400 academic students. By 1969 a university experienced supplementary than tripled its degree enrollments to all over 1,300 students, 450 of whom were pursuing postgraduate studies. Since so academician program enrollments keep close at hand grown to 5,022 students (Fall 2001), by using 749 students at the master's degree level. Adult education expanded at the same time & okay, serves some 30,000 souls both month within non-credit courses & contracted expert training videos computer software.

A University's Board of Trustees is located in New York City where the university maintains administrative agents. The freshly campus is presently under construction in the wild east of Cairo, & is required to open in the Fall Semester of 2007.

Mission

When declared on the Our contries University inside Cairo's official site, a University's mission is "to provide high quality educational opportunities to students from all segments of Egyptian society as well as from other countries, and to contribute to Egypt's cultural and intellectual life."

Mission Impossible

When declared in a mission the University's aim is to "to provide high quality educational opportunities to students from all segments of Egyptian society". A Undergraduate Students' Tuition is: [http://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/ug_tuition.html LE 64,000 or $13,000 per year ] while a GNI per capita is: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/737642.stm US $1,390 (World Bank, 2005)]. Existence that a annually tuition is a same of 10 days the every year GNI (Gross National Income) of Egyptians, such mission is unachievable.