sentences:  It caters for some 26000 students and has some 1400 employees, 300 of whom are lecturers and professors.The 8 faculties offer bachelor's degrees with postgraduate studies on a joint program, established in 1994, between ِAlaqsa University and Ain Shams University, Egypt.The program is on hold now, but there are master's degree programs in a number of faculties in the University.