Analysis of the external environment of the faculty:
It includes studying the impact of the external factors and influences that may have a role in the future in changing the external environment of the faculty. Accordingly, some of the expected variables may represent threats or create opportunities for the faculty that must be used. The external analysis of the Faculty of Computers and Information at Assiut University depends on a set of external factors that influence and can be identified in a number of 9 factors as follows:
The last 4 factors forming this group are what are known as macro-environmental variables, which are analyzed in PEST. The "SOWT" curriculum summarizes the external factors affecting the faculty in the form of opportunities and challenges, and these factors have their effect on the elements of the internal environment previously referred to in the analysis of the internal environment.