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Type
  
Public

Rector
  
Pr H'maied Ben Aziza

Students
  
28,000

Headquarters
  
Tunis, Tunisia

Established
  
1960

Administrative staff
  
1,861

Total enrollment
  
28,000 (2010)

Founded
  
1960

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Former names
  
Institute of High Studies of Tunis

Notable alumni
  
Mohamed Ghannouchi, Hédi Annabi, Youssef Chahed, Abdelfattah Mourou, Habib Essid

Similar
  
Faculté des sciences de Tunis, Carthage University, University Tunis Carthage, Manouba University, University of Sousse

Tunis University (Arabic: جامعة تونس‎‎) is a university in Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1960 on the basis of earlier educational establishments.

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The University of Tunis is a member of the Mediterranean University Union (UNIMED) and of Agence universitaire de la Francophonie.

Organisation

The university is organised into the following institutions.

  • Ecole Normale Supérieure (the oldest institute of the university)
  • Higher School of Economic and Commercial Sciences
  • Higher School of Technological Sciences
  • Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
  • Preparatory Engineering Institute
  • Higher Institute of Literary Studies and Humanities
  • Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts
  • Higher Institute for Youth-Club Activities and Culture
  • Higher Institute of Fine Arts
  • Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities
  • Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities of Zaghouan
  • Higher Institute of Management
  • Higher Institute of Music
  • Higher Institute of Crafts Heritage
  • Tunis Business School
  • National Heritage Institute (Co-Supervision with the Ministry of Culture and the Safeguard of the Heritage)

    • Notable alumni and academics

  • Hédi Annabi (4 September 1943 – 12 January 2010), a Tunisian diplomat and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General
  • Noureddine Bhiri (born 10 July 1958), Tunisian politician
  • Mohamed Brahmi (15 May 1955 – 25 July 2013), Tunisian politician
  • Fadela Echebbi (born 23 January 1946), Tunisian author and poet
  • Mohamed Ghannouchi (born 18 August 1941), the former Prime Minister of Tunisia and self-proclaimed acting president of the country for a few hours starting 14 January 2011
  • Mohamed Ghozzi (born 24 February 1949 in Kairouan), Tunisian poet and critic
  • Hamadi Jebali (born 12 January 1949), Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013
  • Jeanne-Claude, (13 June 1943, Casablanca - 18 November 2009, New York City), environmental artist

    • References

    Tunis University Wikipedia
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