Assiut University President, Prof. Tarek Al-Gammal, announced the success of Assiut University in winning the second rank in the presidential competition launched by President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi and supervised by Prof. Khaled Abdul-Ghaffar Minister of Higher Education and Academic Research. Prof. Gammal stated that the university's rank was officially declared to be second after Kafr El-Sheikh University whereas the University of Mansoura came third.