The history of the Sadat Academy dates back to 1954 when the Institute of Public Administration was established on the recommendation of the English expert "Snicker" who was invited by the Egyptian government to study how to advance the Egyptian civil administration. He recommended the establishment of the Institute of Public Administration to take charge of preparing, training and honing the skills of government employees.

In 1961 the companies (business organizations) operating in Egypt were nationalized and infringed, which necessitated the use of Egyptian cadres to manage them, which necessitated the establishment of the National Institute for Higher Management to prepare and train the cadres and levels of senior management in these companies and public institutions.

In 1967 the Institute of Local Administration was established to train leaders And local government cadres, and from here it became three government institutes in Egypt, each in charge of administrative development activity, in 1970 it was necessary - and from the experience - to achieve integration, homogeneity and effectiveness in providing training service, merging the three institutes into one training institution, the National Institute for Administrative Development To become the first institution of its kind in the Arab world, which has become responsible for the areas of administrative development in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and to extend its activities to the entire Arab region.

The experience showed the extent of the close association of the educational process with the training activity necessary to create and develop the administrative cadres, which necessitated the necessity of adding the distinguished educational educational activity as the basis for a specialized training activity, which necessitated the development of the institute, and then the Sadat Academy for Administrative Sciences was established.

Which was established in March 1981 by Republican Decree No. 172 of 1981 as an independent scientific body aimed at developing management in all fields at the national level …., which focuses on the areas of training, education, consulting, research, and information, then Republican Decision No. (30) was issued For the year 2004 regarding the reorganization of the Academy.

The Academy consists of: Faculty of Administrative Sciences (Cairo / Port Said / Mansoura / Alexandria), which awards bachelors degrees in management sciences, diplomas, master's and doctoral degrees.