Prof. Ahmed Al-Minshawi, President of Assuit University, reviewed a report about the “Business Information Systems (BIS) Program” which was presented by Prof. Alaa Abdel-Hafiz, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, as part of the University’s media campaign to introduce its faculties, their academic programs and the distinguished services they provide.

Prof. Al-Minshawi stated that the “Business Information Systems (BIS) Program” was established in 2020, making Assuit University the third governmental university that offers this distinguished program in the Arab Republic of Egypt. This program is an English academic program of study which aims to combine information systems and technology sciences with financial and commercial sciences. He also added that the duration of study in the “Business Information Systems (BIS) Program” is no less than four years and with a maximum of eight semesters during which a student accomplishes 143 credit hours so that he/she can obtain a bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems (BIS).

This academic program aims to produce a generation qualified to work inside and outside Egypt in specialized electronic accounting, create, analyze and design accounting and management systems with its diverse activities and fields, create specialized databases, design electronic websites and digital and virtual institutions as well as to structure and design information networks for business organizations, economics of electronic knowledge for business enterprises and local and regional stock markets. This program also aims to activate the concept of software engineering to develop business enterprises in all aspects of business.

Prof. Alaa Abdel-Hafiz, Faculty Dean, pointed out that the program includes an elite group of professors from the Faculties of Commerce, Computers and Artificial Intelligence because of their skills in business applications using information and communications technology. He indicated that the BIS’s admission requirements include: a student must have a high school degree or an Arab or foreign equivalent degree in the same year of admission; he/she must be admitted at the Faculty of Commerce through the Coordination Office or admitted to a corresponding or non-corresponding faculty; he/she must meet the minimum marks required for admission to the Faculty of Commerce, Assuit University in the same year of admission; he/she must receive at least 80% of the total marks in English. Preference when admitting students must be in the light of the numbers approved by the program’s executive committee on the basis of (the total marks obtained in the General Certificate of Secondary Education + the marks obtained in English).