Prof. Dr. Tarek El-Gammal, President of Assiut University, announced that Assiut University is ranked fifth locally among the best Egyptian universities according to the American SU classification in the last scientific classification for 2020, after the universities of Cairo, Mansoura, Ain Shams and Alexandria as they ranked 885 globally among the best global universities. Dr. Ahmed El Minshawy, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, said that the American classification is one of the most important international rankings, which includes the evaluation of 1500 universities from 81 countries in the world. Dr. Maha Ghanem, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development and the official in charge of the university's classification file at the Ministry of Higher Education, revealed that the announcement of the American classification included the declaration of Assiut University to be number 20 in the Arab rank and 22 in the African, noting that the classification includes the evaluation of 13 factors to assess the performance of research and its reputation in terms of number of research, citations, research impact and percentage of publications.