This university is made up of 15 institutions, including schools and establishments spread across the Tanger-Tétouan-AL Hoceima region and in the city of Larache.

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.

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.

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'État).

In Al Hoceima: The university's initial and continuing education programs are aimed at all audiences and offer accredited training in many areas.

The result of a partnership between UAE, Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology (China), HANBAN and the General Directorate of Confucius Institutes.

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.

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.