Université Frères Mentouri de Constantine 1

From a simple annex to a modern and a multidisciplinary university with remarkable accomplishments. 

It was on March 29th, 1968 that was laid, by the President Houari BOUMEDIENE, the first cornerstone of the University of Constantine whose official “birth certificate” was the ordinance n°69.56 of June 17th, 1969. As a reminder, the Center of the University of Constantine was established by the Decree of 1961, which was signed by the President of the French Republic, and which acted to create two university centers in Algeria: one in Oran and the other in Constantine. 

However, it should be noted that the sector of Higher Education in Constantine started in 1958, before the creation of the university center, and simultaneously with the creation of an annex of the Faculty of Law at the University of Algiers. This structure, which was established at the Popular University (nowadays, known as Abdelhamid BENBADIS, and situated behind the Grand Post Office at the city center), granted the students of Constantine, who were registered at the University of Constantine, with theoretical education to the two first years of the Bachlor Degree in Law, as well as the preparation of the Competency Certificate in Law.