More than 5,500 full-time students and 1,500 faculty and staff will begin occupying AUC's $400 million, 260-acre new campus in September 2008.

Technologically advanced and environmentally sensitive, the campus will offer state-of-the-art resources and facilities to faculty and students from Egypt, the region and around the world.

Classes will be held in the academic area of the new campus, which consists of the following buildings:

Library

The Main Library will be the most highly-used space on the new campus. Occupying a total of 20,550 square meters, its five floors will house AUC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library, computer laboratories, distance learning rooms, reading rooms, and space for more than 600,000 volumes of books and periodicals. All members of the AUC community will be able to access the Main Library’s wealth of resources, online databases, vast literature collections and archives.

Mostafa Core Academic Center 

This four-story building in the heart of the new campus occupies a total area of 5,044 square meters. Situated near the Main Library and overlooking the plaza from one side and the University Garden from the other, the center houses the university’s Core Curriculum office, classrooms and computer centers, designed to provide a broad liberal arts base for each student’s education at AUC. The center also houses the 225-seat Mansour Group Lecture Hall and includes conference and meeting rooms, and the Café Theater.

Research Centers Building 

The Research Centers Building stands adjacent to the AUC Portal, overlooking the main walkway and University Garden. This three-story complex occupies an area of 2,750 square meters and houses AUC’s academic and research centers and institutes, including the Social Research Center and the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement. This building also offers conferences, research and training facilities, and administrative offices, as well as provides visiting scholars with offices in which to conduct their projects and collaborative initiatives.

Abdul Latif Jameel Hall

The Abdul Latif Jameel Hall houses the School of Business, Economics and Communication and offers one of AUC’s most rigorous academic programs. Today, the school has 1,200 students enrolled at the undergraduate level and 300 at the graduate level within the school’s departments of management, economics, and journalism and mass communication. This three-story building occupies a total area of 16,750 square meters and houses conference rooms, faculty offices, teaching laboratories and training rooms.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall houses the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and its departments of Arab and Islamic civilizations; English and comparative literature; history; philosophy; political science; sociology, anthropology, psychology and Egyptology; as well as the Arabic and English language institutes and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research. This 20,770-square-meter building occupies a prime location on campus near the AUC Portal and the Performing and Visual Arts Building, where various cultural events and performances will be held.

School of Sciences and Engineering 

The School of Sciences and Engineering will house AUC’s departments of biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics, as well as its engineering departments, conference and meeting rooms, offices and laboratories. It will also be supplied with state-of-the-art equipment to support its various academic initiatives, as well as research by regional and international faculty.