The Academic Reference Standards (ARS) of this program is based upon the Standard Criteria for Postgraduate Programs published by the National Au-thority of Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education in (2009).

Spe-cific Academic Reference Standards for M.Sc. in Botany were approved by the Council of Faculty of Science, Benha University in --/--/2015 (Appen-dices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).