It is one of the biggest Egyptian universities and has contributed much to the cultural and scientific life in Mansoura and Egypt.

The faculty of medicine was founded in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University.

In 2018, the Mansourasaurus,[2] a genus of herbivorous lithostrotian sauropod dinosaur,[3] had been discovered by a team under Mansoura University paleontologist Hesham Sallam and was named after the university.

[4] According to Times Higher Education (THE) (Edition: 2020), the ranking of Mansoura University is:[9]

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