AU President Essam El Kurdi announced for initiating new programs in the academic year 2018/2019 for under graduate level. The Faculty of Arts will start the program "Juridical phonetics and linguistics" as the first one in Egypt and Arab countries as a collaboration between the Faculty of Arts and Law.

He added that the study of Chinese language will start during the current year to provide the labor market with qualified personals to work in translation, education and media. The study in "industrial engineering" program will also start in the Faculty of engineering.