Université de Jijel

The University Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia (Université de Jijel)  is a university located in Jijel in Algeria . It is named in honor of politician Mohamed Seddik Benyahia . It is ranked by US News & World Report in 106th  place ranking in 2016 from regional Arab universities.

In its evolution, the University of Jijel has gone through several stages of restructuring. Early in its history back in 1986 opening date of an annex to the University of Constantine in accordance with decision No. 72 of 21/03/1986 of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. By Executive Decree No. 62/88 of 22 March 1988, the annex was converted into Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) whose primary mission is the training of trainers in basic sciences, in Mathematics, physics and chemistry. In 1993 and before the continuous evolution of staffing students enrolled in the school, it was decided to integrate the latter, the institute of higher technicians in public works a capacity of 400 training places and 250 beds.

In July 1998, after the enlargement of the spectrum of areas of training, receiving educational facilities such as the Institute of Metallurgy and the acquisition of new scientific equipment, ENS was dissolved and in its place created a center university under Executive order No. 221/98 of 27/07/1998 bringing together four institutes: the Institute of technology, Computer science, biology and exact sciences. The university center is erected in University of Jijel by Presidential Decree No. 03-258 dated 22 July 2003 as a public administrative institution with legal personality and financial autonomy, with four faculties : faculty of science, faculty of engineering sciences, the faculty of law and the faculty of management sciences.