Dr. Mokhtar Yousef, the Vice President of Alexandria University for Graduate Studies and Research stated that the university was classified within the British index "Times Higher Education" for 2018 as the assessment of the university will be announced on 26^th of December. He added in his meeting with the Council of Graduate Studies and Research that the university is working to upgrade its classification and pointed that 22 magazines were available in the university servers and Egyptian Knowledge bank.

Dr. Mokhtar said that the university pays attention to international cooperation and joint research with international universities and education system development, teaching quality and graduates level. He pointed that the university has recently occupied advanced position compared with last year according to the Chinese Shanghai Ranking for 2018 as it came in the position 601 within the best 1000 university over the world and occupied the second position locally after Cairo University.