The City University of Cairo (CUC) is an Egyptian private university established and operated according to the provisions of law no. 12 of 2009 of the private and national universities in Egypt and the executive regulations that were issued under the Presidential Decree no. 302 of the year 2010. The CUC will be constructed on Egyptian land in the framework of the State tendency to expand the establishment of private universities in order to be a tributary of higher education in Egypt, and contribute to increasing its capacity. Based upon that, the Council of Private and Public Universities issued decree no. 29 dated 3/ 3/2014 recommending the approval of the request for the establishment of this university according to the results of the reports of the technical committees. Among the provisions governing this university is that it has an independent legal personality

has been approved by The Minister of Higher Education Prof. Dr./ Weal El-Degwy and sent its sovereignty book accompanied by a draft of the Republican resolution to his Excellency Mr. Prime Minister / Ibrahim Mahlab on the 17thof March 2014 for issuing a final republican decree before starting the establishment process. After that, it got the approval of the Egyptian Cabinet in its session no. 5 which was held on the 27th of March 2014, and these approvals were announced in the visual media and the official newspapers of the same date. Finally.