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Tuition-free by design
Not discounted, not deferred — free. A lean institution funded by people who believe in this work, so students never carry the cost.
Saint Cyril · the light of Alexandria
An American education, for the Middle East.
Saint Cyril University is a tuition-free, fully online university serving the Christians of the Middle East and open to all — American-style degrees taught in cohorts, led by facilitators, designed by credentialed professors.
$0 tuition — forever, by design
3 schools · 13 degrees · 2 required cores
English-taught with Arabic support throughout
Built for 2G — study survives bad connections
Why Saint Cyril
A serious education, freed from every barrier we could remove.
Cost, geography, paperwork, unstable electricity, a lost passport — none of these measures a mind. We built the university around the barriers our students actually face, and removed every one we could.
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Professors design, facilitators lead
Every course is built by credentialed professors — content, exercises, assessments. Trained facilitators then lead your cohort through it, week by week.
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Cohort community
You move through your degree with a class that knows your name — discussion, shared work, and people who expect you to show up.
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Honest to a fault
We are not accredited yet and we say so on every page. What our degree is — and is not — is disclosed before you invest a single hour.
Programs
Three schools. Thirteen degrees.
Bachelor's · Computing
B.S. Computer Science
The foundational computing degree — programming, systems, and the mathematics beneath them — taught the American way, in cohorts.
Learn more →Bachelor's · Computing
B.S. Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
Working with data and building with AI — the fastest-growing capability in the global job market, taught from foundations up.
Learn more →Bachelor's · Business
B.S. Business Administration — Entrepreneurship Emphasis
The core American business degree, with an emphasis on building ventures rather than only managing them.
Learn more →Bachelor's · Computing
B.S. Cybersecurity
Defending systems, networks and people — a security-first computing degree for a field with a documented global shortage.
Learn more →Master's · Business
M.B.A. — Entrepreneurship Emphasis
An M.B.A. for people who intend to build — startup strategy, venture finance and a capstone that launches a real plan.
Learn more →Master's · Computing
M.S. Data Science & AI
A graduate degree in the field defining the decade — advanced machine learning, engineering and judgement.
Learn more →The academic model
Designed by professors.
Led by facilitators.
Credentialed professors build every course — the content, the exercises, the assessments, the rubrics. Trained facilitators then run each cohort on a structured weekly rhythm. You get an American curriculum and a class that carries you through it.
News
Building a university, in the open.
The university takes its name: Saint Cyril of Alexandria.
A Church Father venerated by every Christian family of the region — and the Pharos of his city now lights our crest.
Read more →The learning platform is live.
Learning management, student records and single sign-on are deployed and running — built for low bandwidth from the first line.
Read more →Thirteen degrees across three schools, published.
Computing & Technology, Business & Economics, and Behavioral & Health Sciences — with an AI fluency minor required in every degree.
Read more →The lighthouse is lit.
Founding applications are open. Programs are in development and the university is not yet accredited — we will tell you exactly where things stand, and there is never a fee.