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 (2020âÂÂ2021) 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:
In Martil:
In Tangier:
The National Schools and the faculty of science and technology deliver a state engineering degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur d'ÃÂtat). The other faculties deliver either a bachelor's (licence) or a master's degree.
In Al Hoceima:
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 2021âÂÂ2022 academic year.
The 14 types of diplomas prepared are as follows:
The UAE has been able to develop interesting and promising research potential. Better structuring has enabled the development of research oriented towards regional and national themes and many efforts have been made to lead to the new organization of research characterized by a general overhaul of laboratories, teams and research groups and the regrouping existing Doctoral Training in Doctoral Studies Centers (CED).
Research at UAE is now structured within 5 CEDs, 38 laboratories, 20 groups and 52 research teams accredited by the University Council (CU). For its part, research and international cooperation have been defined in the university's development strategy as priorities. It is the guarantor of training and research with an international dimension allowing the university to welcome and train foreign students and to offer its students and staff the opportunity of a departure towards other cultures, with a very present African dimension.
The university provides students with a web platform providing resources (PDF courses, videos, etc.) for all branches of study.
A messaging system is also available.
The Confucius Institute inaugurated in 2016, is the 3rd Confucius Institute in Morocco with the objective of learning the Chinese language. The result of a partnership between UAE, Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology (China), HANBAN and the General Directorate of Confucius Institutes. Since its inception, 2,308 students have registered for Chinese language and culture courses, including 308 ISITT students.
The Career Center was created in 2016 with the aim of offering UAE students training in "Soft-Skills" non-technical skills and facilitating their access to employability after their university studies. More than 15,000 students have benefited from its physical services and nearly 200,000 virtual users have registered on the careercenter.ma platform, which has received more than 1,915,000 visits.
The center uses computer-aided design, engineering, manufacturing and materials science technologies to transform a 3D model into a physical object.
The objective is to develop applied research meeting the needs to support regional and national socio-economic development.
A center created to support all components of the university and instill a spirit of tolerance, multiculturalism, law and duty.
Several associations and clubs active in sport, charity work, art, journalism, innovation and entrepreneurship are present in the various schools and institutions of the university. In particular, the branches of:
There is also a Student Office in all components of the UAE, which oversees the protection of student rights and the transmission of information to the administrative body.
The university is administered by:
Mohamed Errami, former president who put the interest of the university before his own health during the COVID-19 period
Mohamed Mechbal, research professor who won the King Faisal International Prize for Arabic Language and Literature in February 2021
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University has signed agreements with its international counterparts. It is an effective partner of more than 32 universities around the world, and foresees a number of 50 in 2023. The partnership with the socioeconomic fabric on a multidimensional scale is very present.
The university appears in several international rankings: