Benha University (BU) is one of the five largest governmental Universities in Egypt, with about 5200 academic staff, and more than 100,000 undergraduate and 3500 International students. BU has 16 faculties, and more than 40 centres of excellence to serve up the surrounded society in different tracks.

BU is a non-profit university, which is seeking for achieving the standard quality of the educational process with solid partnerships with esteemed foreign universities and constant care to develop facilities and services locally, regionally and internationally.

Benha University (BU) is introducing new scientific research modality that is based on multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches to strengthening the capacity of the university to play a vital role in society.

BU is directly involved in several community-based development projects, where it is expanding our collaboration with the local authorities to bridge the gap between scientific research and market needs according to the goals of Egypt Vision 2030.

Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra (FES), Benha University, Egypt founded at 1961 and it represents one of the major faculties of Benha University, with 6 main departments with 15 scientific programs, more than 60 technical labs and engineering workshops.

According to the distinguished reputation of the college and its professors “specially in field of geoinformatics”, FES has signed several memorandums of understanding (MOU) with the governmental entities (Egyptian Surveying Authority, Military Surveying Department, The National Centre for State Land Use Planning etc.).

This cooperation expands to the international spatial information technology companies that support it in this field (ESRI, HEXAGON, Bently etc..).

Accordingly, Geomatics Engineering Department “GED” (The former name is the Surveying Engineering Department – SED) represents a unique specialized department for Engineering Surveying and mapping. Over the last 60 years, GED is the leading department within the surveying, mapping and GIS areas in Egypt and has a special focus on improving this track to keep pace with international trends by developing study programs, curriculums, and practical training processes.

GED is focusing on the creation the qualified graduates to fulfil the newly arising requirements of labour market. GED has participated in developing Geomatics studies in the national level. This is supporting in both the governmental and private calibres in the fields of “Modern data capture techniques and spatial data analysis”.

Meanwhile, the department is playing a significant role of coordinating, developing and strengthening the Egyptian geospatial infrastructure.