D E PA RTM E N T O F M AT H E MAT I C S A N D AC T U A R I A L S C I E N C E

Facilities and Specialized Laboratories

The Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science offers its students, professors and teaching
assistants a variety of services and facilities in order to enhance their academic experience. The computer
lab is open on weekdays from 8:30 am to 7:00 pm. The computer lab provides computers with internet
access, Microsoft Office standard programs and specialized mathematics software. Students are
eligible to receive a license to install the software required for their courses on their personal computers
in order to be able to finish their assignments conveniently. In addition, lab users can have personalized
accounts for storing their documents and files and can use the printing services in the lab.

Extracurricular Activities
Mathematical Learning Center: A facility staffed by teaching assistants for students in need of additional
mathematics help.
Annual Math Competition: Open to undergraduate students at AUC and other local universities.

Why Join AUC’s Data Science Program?

AUC provides a quality, professional education that advances the ideals of American liberal arts and
lifelong learning. As freedom of academic expression is fundamental to this effort, AUC encourages the
free exchange of ideas and promotes open and ongoing interaction with scholarly institutions throughout
Egypt and other parts of the world.

The University environment is designed to advance proficient use of the tools of learning as well as
students’ thinking capabilities, language and personal skills.

Students are trained by outstanding faculty members with PhDs from leading universities in the United
States, Canada, Europe and Egypt.

AUC has one of the best English-language libraries in the Middle East, equipped with state-of-the-art
information access technologies.

The AUC campus includes up-to-date computer facilities and software, as well as well-equipped
experimental laboratories in nearly every specialty.

Students have access to a rich and diverse student life with a broad array of extracurricular activities.
www.aucegypt.edu AUC New Cairo offers world-class educational resources on a spacious, technologically advanced
and environmentally sensitive campus.

Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science UNDERGRADUATE DATA SCIENCE

AUC New Cairo
AUC Avenue • P.O. Box 74 • New Cairo, 11835, Egypt PROGRAM
tel 20.2.2615. 2763

https://sse.aucegypt.edu/programs/undergraduate/data-science Bachelor of Science in Data Science

 Academic Offerings
The Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science offers three
undergraduate programs leading to the following degrees:
• Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science*
• Bachelor of Science in Data Science
• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics*
In addition, it offers the following three minors:
The Data Science Program is administered by a council of members from several • Minor in Mathematics*
departments, including: • Minor in Applied Probability and Statistics*
Biology • Minor in Financial Mathematics*
Computer Science and Engineering
Chemistry
Mathematics and Actuarial Science
Why should you pursue the Bachelor of Science program in
data science?
The advances in communication and information technologies have given rise to • The demand for data scientists is currently notably greater than the supply. Data scientists are in
the availability of huge datasets. The datasets contain a wealth of knowledge. Data
science is the study of the generalizable extraction of knowledge from data. It is a
high demand, both locally and globally. Admission Requirements Accreditation
• You can enjoy making good use of your mathematical and problem-solving skills in a dynamic
new multidisciplinary field. A data scientist is a professional who is able to collect and business environment and be nicely rewarded for success. Students are admitted to the data science AUC is accredited in the United States by the
analyze the current and future types and sizes of data and solve the kind of problems major either upon admission to AUC or after Middle States Commission on Higher Education
“The Bachelor of Science in Data Science associated with them.
• The Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science prepares you for four of the 10 best jobs as
ranked in 2018 by CareerCast.com: successful completion of criteria courses. (MSCHE).
High-school students with a mathematics or
at AUC is – to our knowledge – the first Being a data scientist requires an integrated skill set spanning mathematics, probability,
• Mathematician (No. 2)
• Statistician (No. 5) science background are accepted based on
A wide spectrum of programs are ABET
accredited and approved by the Supreme
statistics, machine learning, computational science and programming languages (such
undergraduate program of its kind in Egypt as R and Python), as well as a good understanding of real-world problem formulation
• Data Scientist (No. 7)
• Actuary (No.10)
their competitive high-school grades and the
capacity of the program.
Council for Egyptian Universities.

and the region to cater to the highly increasing and effective solutions. These areas are most relevant and needed for a very strong Research
program in data science. Prospective Job Fields and Employers • Only 20 students are admitted every
Research activities in the Department of
regional and global market demand for data The data science field is currently experiencing rapid growth due to the availability of • Business analytics, machine learning and business intelligence
year. The total enrollments in four years
is expected to be between 75 and 80
Mathematics and Actuarial Science cover
a wide range of areas in pure and applied
scientists. This multidisciplinary program is huge and complex real-world data. The demand for data science education has also
been increasing exponentially. Accordingly, we need to move away from the traditional
•
•
National and multinational CIT (communication and information technology) companies
Banks, investment and other financial institutions
students.
mathematics, actuarial science, statistics, data
• Students can declare the major at the gate
hosted by the Department of Mathematics way of teaching statistics to meeting the needs of the modern world for data scientists
who can use modern analytic techniques and tools for analyzing data, especially big
•
•
Consulting firms
Statistical and mathematical research centers
or within their first three semesters at AUC.
science and other related fields.
Details concerning individual research interests
• The minimum requirements for declaration
and Actuarial Science, but brings together data. of a major in data science are the same
and recent activities are found on the personal
webpages of faculty members. Areas of active
as those for actuarial science (A minimum
the expertise of a wide spectrum of faculty “The demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by GPA of 3.3 and criteria courses).
research include mathematical programming
and optimization, queuing and reliability
statistics departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training.” (Hicks and
members from various departments in the Irizarry, 2017). Graduation Requirements models,

School of Sciences and Engineering.” A total of 130 credits are required for the
Bachelor of Science in data science as follows:
history of mathematics, computation of graphical
models, topology, category theory, logic,
Requirements: Credits model theory, robust statistics, computational
Ali Hadi Core 40 statistics, visualization of high dimensional
Founder of AUC’s Data Science Program Concentration: data, survival analysis, Bayesian inference
Mathematics 21 in reliability, regression analysis, time series,
Data Science: 48 multivariate analysis, fatigue and lifetime data
Electives: 21 analysis, extreme value distributions, machine
learning, artificial intelligence, algorithm
analysis, simulation and Bayesian neural and
*For more information about these programs as well as the opportunities to double major in Mathematics and other engineering disciplines,
functional networks.
please see the Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Brochure.