HICIT in Shorouk Academy

The Higher Institute Of Computer Science & Information Technology (المعهد العالي للحاسبات و تكنولوجيه المعلومات بلشروق) in El Shorouk City is officially licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The Higher Institute of Computer & Information Technology in El Shorouk was granted its original accreditation according to the decree of the Supreme Council of Universities No. 79 on June 5, 2004.

Academic fields

 * Data analytics
 * Data warehousing
 * Data mining
 * Software engineering
 * Cloud computing
 * System analysis
 * System design
 * Management information systems
 * Programming and SE development

Academic degrees
The Higher Institute of Computer Science provide the Egyptian Bachelors in computer science that is equal to the Egyptian Bachelors in computer science provided by Egyptian universities.

Prometic testing center
In March 2008 an agreement between the Institute and Prometric company was signed, these agreement give the institute the right to start his own testing center that provides all Microsoft exams as well as sun and Apple.

ICDL testing center
In January 2010 another agreement between the Institute and UNESCO, was signed, these agreement give the institute the right to start his own testing center that provide the International ICDL and the Egyptian version of ICDL.

GDG Shorouk
Formerly known as Shorouk GTUG (Google Technology User Group) is the Google Developers Group in shorouk academy, founded in 2011 by the following students of HICIT:


 * 1) Ahmed Mahmoud
 * 2) Ahmed Farid
 * 3) Ashraf Hesham
 * 4) Nasser Ali