Top 10 reasons to love AUC’s Kamal Adham Center

?????? ???From inspiring Tutors and helpful advisors to its supportive and inclusive student communities, Kamal Adham centre forms an enthusiastic community aiming to change the media landscape in the MENA region. By providing an exceptional, engaging, rich and unconventional educational experience and utilizing the built connections with MENA region leading creative and cultural organizations, giving their students access to encouraging opportunities that help them thrive professionally after graduation.

Also, you can't talk about reasons to love Kamal Adham centre without at least briefly paying homage to the legendary University. Founded in 1919, it's been ranked among the top universities in the Middle East and Africa for years. Alumni include prominent political figures, Artists, Businessmen, Economists, Journalists, Filmmakers and Authors.

This article will explain what makes Kamal Adham centre one of the best places to study Media in Egypt and the MENA Region and what makes those studies so valuable for success in later life.

1. A Great Fellowship Program

??Kamal Adham centre offers an outstanding fellowship program for qualified graduates and professional journalists. The fellowship is designed to attract Egyptian professionals with a proven track record and accomplishments in the Egyptian Media landscape. The fellowship covers partial tuition fees for a maximum of eight credits per semester, prerequisite courses, student services, and activities fees.

???? ???Kamal Adham Fellows are required to participate in the Teaching assistantship training, allowing them to interact with the faculty and administration, leading to potential career opportunities in the centre.

2. Supportive and inclusive college community :

The?Kamal Adham?Center?attracts many people and personalities, and students from different backgrounds?love to study there. The?abundance?of events and activities?offered proves?the dynamic and vibrant nature of the?Student Organization. Students are brought together by their?talents?and?passions?for their subject. By being around other interested?students, you?can?develop?your strengths and skills as much as?your studies.?AUC offers an opportunity to explore your interests beyond your study, from vacation tours to a fantastic choice of extracurricular activities. AUC is an excellent place to work and live, whether you wish to write for a student newspaper, perform at college open mic evenings or participate in endless activities. Whatever your interests, you will find like-minded people.

3. Events (Activities)

The Adham centre encourages its graduate students to attend events and activities and engage them with the professional world by organizing seminars and conferences. They invite top executives from the most prominent media organizations in the MENA region, covering topics that will help their graduates thrive in the media community.

Also, the centre encourages its students to participate in acclaimed film festivals and introduce their documentary projects, opening a variety of opportunities for them to engage, harvest the skills acquired in the master's program and improve their marketing and outreach skills.

4. Inspiring Teaching methods

At the Adham Center, education is at the core of everything. They constantly strive to help their students learn as much as possible while increasing their passion and interest in their chosen subjects. The educational environment at the centre is interactive.

????? Not only Each student can express their own opinion, but each student can also ask and discuss the views of other students. This allows students to develop ideas and learn from peers and teachers. Students will learn more about the subjects they choose and acquire valuable learning skills such as working on their projects, giving effective presentations, and getting the most out of their group work. At Kamal Adham centre, they know exactly what environment they want to create where students can grow.

5. Experts and inspiring Professors

Kamal Adham Center focuses on providing a rich educational experience to its students; to do that, Adham centre handpicks top professionals in the fields of production, TV journalism, and social media marketing to teach the masters courses. Not just that, the centre makes sure that the selected faculty comply with the interactive teaching philosophy of the centre, presents the students with up-to-date cases and focuses mainly on assignments and projects.

6. Networking and Support system

Life after University probably is a long way off, but it's worth considering how invaluable an AUC degree can be in the job market. Studying at AUC sharpens critical thinking and practical skills and equips students with many employment opportunities. Employers actively seek AUC students through recruitment fairs and events, and the University's careers service helps students find graduate jobs and internships in many different fields. The one-on-one advice offered by the Careers Service provides an opportunity to talk about the jobs that might suit you.

?????Studying at the Kamal Adham centre attracts a lifetime of opportunities, and you will have many options of exciting careers or further study options when you finish. Even whilst studying, you will have many opportunities to build your employability skills, get work experience and develop entrepreneurial ideas.

7. Career Advising and coaching

With the guidance of the AUC career centre, the Adham Center provides a dynamic, ongoing career advising throughout the graduate program, relying on the professional faculty well, trained staff and career consultants.

The centre integrates career advising in its educational experience, utilizing the expert professional faculty and ensuring that the course material is filled with up-to-date case studies and assignments and projects that can help the students' career advancement.

Moreover, encouraging the students to attend the centre seminars and media conferences and participate in documentary film festivals increased their exposure and visibility, leading to more career opportunities.

8. State of the art equipment and facilities.

?To provide an inspiring and unconventional educational experience to its students. Kamal Adham Center have an extensive list of facilities, from studios, video editing suites, a sound booth and broadcasting equipment to its unique fully automated news production workflow system, virtual studios and a 36 years old library of tapes.

The centre's state-of-the-art facilities include:

9. Adaptive to Covid-19 challenges (Giving back to the Media Community)?????

Kamal Adham centre started many changes to cope with the pandemic and its social distancing regulations: Such as switching all its classes to be online. Besides, collaborating with Facebook Journalism Project to offer a comprehensive one-year Media Relief program to support Egyptian media organizations and individuals.

The Program is divided into tracks. The first track is a media production kit for 350 selected Journalists; this kit is designed to equip the chosen with the necessary tools to produce multimedia remotely or from home.

The second track is designed to equip journalists with the necessary tools to adapt to these severe circumstances by providing four mini diplomas in mobile journalism, fact-checking, audience development and media ethics.

Finally, the last track is designed for local publishers and content creators, where the Program will select ten publishers/content creators to provide them with an intensive three-week digital transformation and media mentorship consultancy.

10.?Award of Excellence (Kamal Adham's Student's Achievements):

In the Past Five Years, Graduate students of the Kamal Adham Center Have been participating in various international film festivals like the World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC),?Zayed University Middle East Film Festival (ZUMEFF), FLORENCE Film awards and?The Broadcast Education Association – the Festival of media arts ( BEA). They have had remarkable results in these festivals. Most notably in the BEA- Festival of Media Arts.

The prestigious BEA is one of the top three international conferences in media and communication. The Festival is held in April every year in Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States. More than 1,700 submissions from all around the world are submitted in the different festival categories.

Over the past five years of the BEA's Festival of Media Arts, AUC ranks 15th in overall top winning programs, 1st in documentary programs (Adham Center submissions), and 4th in audio programs (JRMC submissions).

16 Adham Center graduates have won 14 awards in the Film and video, Micro Documentary and Short Film Documentary Categories.