Abdelmalek Essaâdi University

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The Abdelmalek Essaâdi University is a Moroccan public university established in 1989 and headquartered in Tétouan. It is one of the main higher education institutions in northern Morocco. The university comprises 15 institutions, including faculties, schools, and institutes, distributed across the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region as well as in the city of Larache. It offers programs in several fields, including sciences, law, economics and management, humanities and social sciences, as well as science and technology. In 2016, the university inaugurated a Confucius Institute dedicated to the teaching of Chinese language and culture, becoming the third institute of this type in Morocco. The university was ranked 82nd in the 2016 regional ranking of Arab universities published by U.S. News & World Report.

Abdelmalek Essaâdi University was founded by virtue of Dahir no. 189-144 dated 23 Rabia Ier 1410 (23 October 1989) completed by Dahir no. 177-398 of 16 October 1975 relating to the creation of universities. The name of the university was given in honor of the Saadian Sultan Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik whose troops were victorious at the battle of Oued El-Makhazine also called Battle of the Three Kings against the King of Portugal Sebastian I and his allies and located next to Ksar El Kébir Carried out from a first nucleus installed in 1982, the creation of the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University came at an opportune moment when Morocco had undertaken, both economically and politically, a regionalization strategy, aimed at strengthening decentralization, by creating a university nucleus whose primary purpose is to adapt the potential in terms of training and research to the specific needs of the North-West region.

In addition to the Presidency, the UAE currently has 15 institutions, namely: six schools and nine faculties. In addition, 2 schools and 6 faculties will soon be opened. Present in five cities (Tetouan, Tangier, Larache, Al Hoceïma and Ksar El-Kébir), and soon in Chefchaouen and Ouezzane as well, the number of its students exceeded during the year (2020–2021) the threshold of 123,000, including 4,600 doctoral students, with a supervision of 1197 teacher-researchers and 602 administrative and technicians.

The university includes the following faculties and schools. In Tétouan:

Faculty of Sciences National School of Applied Sciences, Tétouan Campus In Martil:

Faculty of Juridical, Economic, and Social Sciences (FSJES) Higher Normal School, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Faculty of Letters and Humanities In Tangier:

National School of Applied Sciences, Tangier Campus National School of Business and Management of Tangier Faculty of Sciences and Technology The National Schools and the faculty of science and technology deliver a state engineering degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur d'État). The other faculties deliver either a bachelor's (licence) or a master's degree. In Al Hoceima:

National School of Applied Sciences, Al Hoceima Campus Faculty of Sciences and Technology

The university's initial and continuing education programs are aimed at all audiences and offer accredited training in many areas. The training at the UAE is essentially organized according to the pedagogical architecture of higher education LMD (License - Master - Doctorate) is organized in 4 disciplinary fields: Sciences and Techniques, Law, Economics and Management, Human Sciences, Letters and Arts and Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The university prepares training offers according to the Bachelor framework for accreditation and start of application from the start of the 2021–2022 academic year. The 14 types of diplomas prepared are as follows:

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