National School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA)

Opened in the 2021-22 academic year, the National School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA) is one of Algeria’s newest universities. ENSIA was established in order to educate engineers specialising in the theory and practice of artificial intelligence and data sciences. It is located in the new technology centre of Sidi Abdellah, in the western suburbs of Algiers. The campus is easily accessible via a number of modes of public transport. Courses are taught in English and French, and subjects on offer include intensive English, mathematics, computer science (programming, databases, software engineering, computer security, etc); artificial intelligence and its application, entrepreneurship and project management. For the 2021-22 academic year, students were not admitted unless they had achieved a minimum of 16 out of 20 in their Baccalaureate. There were also minimum grade requirements for mathematics, depending on which courses students were planning to study. As yet, ENSIA does not offer PhD study, but there are plans to introduce doctoral schools within the next few years. ENSIA hopes that its graduates will go on to have careers as artificial-intelligence engineers, data analysts, computer scientists or software developers in fields including health, energy, agriculture and transport.