Mohammed V University of Rabat

Mohammed V University (Arabic: جامعة محمد الخامس, French: Université Mohammed-V) is a public university in Rabat, Morocco. It was founded in 1957 under a royal decree (Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the Uni e first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. It is named after Mohammed V of Morocco. The history of higher education in Morocco dates back to the creation of the first higher research institute during the protectorate in 1920: the Cherifian Scientific Institute, which later became the Scientific Institute. Paradoxically, the first research carried out in Morocco within the framework of this Institute, well before the Human and Social Sciences, focused mainly on scientific disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, oceanography and anthropology… The same year saw the establishment of the Institute of Higher Moroccan Studies (IHEM), whose mission was to promote and propagate knowledge of the Arabic and Berber languages, geography, history, ethnography and Moroccan civilization. The ancestor of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences was born. Much later, in 1953, the Center for Higher Scientific Studies was inaugurated, which would become the first Faculty of Sciences in Morocco. These three institutions therefore constituted the breeding ground and the cradle at the base of the construction of the first modern university in Morocco. Thus, in 1957, at the dawn of the country's independence, and in a spirit of modernization and emancipation of the nation, Mohammed V University was born. From then on, it would take on the challenge of training the first executives of independent Morocco and of propelling the economic and social development of the country. This institution has today largely justified its reputation by accumulating more than half a century of experience during which high-ranking state figures have been trained in all major disciplinary fields: Letters and Human Sciences, Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, Exact Sciences, Engineering Sciences and Medical Sciences. Furthermore, as dean of modern Moroccan universities and within the framework of the national policy of regionalization and decentralization of higher education establishments, she initiated the creation and supervision of many other universities in different regions of Morocco by creating several centers, first in Casablanca and Fez, which later became independent universities. Over the years, the university has gradually enriched its faculty and seen the number of its students increase considerably. This ever-increasing influx of high school graduates required the university to be split into two in 1992: Mohammed V-Agdal University and Mohammed V-Souissi University. This long-contested and decried split generated two incomplete universities in disciplinary terms which, since then, have operated by turning their backs on each other. This state of affairs put an end to the harmony that reigned within the single university and disrupted the synergy that united the teachers of the different establishments by isolating the medical sciences within Mohammed V-Souissi University which, in fact, found itself amputated from the disciplines of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, Exact Sciences and Engineering Sciences. Faced with such a dislocated university landscape, and to meet the growing demand of students, Mohammed V-Souissi University subsequently reacted by creating an engineering school and two Faculties of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, one in Rabat and the other in Salé. Other establishments then emerged on both sides within the two universities, the most recent of which are the IEHL which dates back to 2002 and the annex of the UM5A in Abu Dhabi. The ENS and the ENSET, which had already existed since the 1980s, respectively integrated the Mohammed V Souissi and Agdal Universities in 2010 and 2011. Twelve years later, due to international competitiveness, the two universities finally reconnected with their common past by establishing the merger.