Red Sea University (Arabic: جامعة البحر الأحمر, Jām'ah al-Baḥr al-aḥmar) is located in the city of Port Sudan, in the state of The Red Sea in eastern Sudan.

The university witnessed a leap in the number of colleges in 1998, when the College of Medicine and Health Sciences was established for the purpose of providing qualified doctors and medical staff, and the same year witnessed the establishment of the College of Applied Sciences, and the aim of its establishment was dictated by the presence of a number of colleges of a scientific nature in addition to the accompanying expansion in structures This is in addition to rehabilitating human cadres and manpower, attracting faculty members and teaching assistants, and sending them for training.

This educational service included other sectors of society with different conditions and needs that were achieved by conducting additional and continuing studies in 1995.

Large numbers of students have graduated from these diplomas, in addition to studying by affiliation to obtain a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Economics.

The university established a unit for postgraduate studies in the year 1996 AD, and the first batch of higher education diplomas was registered, followed by registration for a master's degree in the faculties of education, marine sciences, economics and applied sciences, with the research system only.