Thanaweya Amma Coordination Percentages for Medicine and Engineering in Egypt

What Tansik (Coordination) Does

Egypt's higher education system does not let you apply directly to a specific faculty. Instead, the Ministry of Higher Education's coordination office, known as Tansik, ranks every Thanaweya Amma graduate nationally by total percentage within their branch, scientific or literary, and places students into faculties starting from the highest percentage down until every seat fills.

Because placement runs on ranking rather than a fixed pass mark, the minimum percentage a faculty ends up requiring changes every year. A percentage that got you into a top faculty one cycle might fall short the next, depending on how many students scored above you.

How the Minimum Percentage Is Set

Each public faculty publishes how many places it has. Tansik fills those places with the highest-ranked applicants from the relevant branch who list that faculty as a choice, then the percentage scored by the last student admitted becomes the faculty's minimum for the cycle. Faculties with more applicants than places, such as medicine, end up with minimums close to the top possible scores.

Medicine Cut-Offs

For the 2024/2025 cycle, Egypt's Minister of Higher Education said minimum grades for the country's top public faculties ranged from 85 to 93 percent, with medicine among the highest, requiring a science-branch percentage near 93 percent, according to Ahram Online . Medicine faculties at Cairo, Ain Shams and Alexandria universities typically sit at or near the top of that range in any given cycle.

Engineering Cut-Offs

Engineering faculties fall inside the same 85 to 93 percent band for top public faculties but generally sit below medicine, since engineering offers more total seats across more universities. The exact minimum still differs by university and by year, so a percentage that secured a place at one engineering faculty does not guarantee a place at a more sought-after one like Cairo University or Ain Shams University.

Why Percentages Differ by University and Branch

Scientific-branch students, who take advanced math, physics, chemistry and biology, compete for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and engineering seats. Applicants following the mathematics track inside the scientific branch compete separately for engineering-heavy faculties from those following the biology track toward medicine and pharmacy, so the same overall percentage can clear one faculty and fall short of another depending on which track it was built from.

Planning Your Faculty Choices

Because Tansik ranks rather than sets a fixed pass mark, list your faculty choices in a realistic order rather than only naming your top pick. Students who list medicine or a top engineering faculty as their only choice risk missing every faculty they applied for if their percentage lands just under that cycle's cut-off, while a ranked list with more attainable faculties further down still places you somewhere in the system.

Where to Check Current Numbers

Tansik publishes each cycle's minimum percentages on its official coordination portal once placement closes. Because the numbers move every year with applicant volume and available seats, treat any percentage you read, including the figures here, as a reference point from that specific cycle rather than a target to plan years ahead against.