University of Blida 2 is located in El Affroun, Algeria. It was spun off from the original University of Bilda in 2014 as a means of easing pressure on a fast-growing institution.
It has faculties of economics, business and management science, law and political science, humanities and social science, and arts and languages.
Italian language and literature is among the most active disciplines, with two new laboratories bult in 2023 and plans for a symposium to celebrate the centenary of novelist Italo Calvino¡¯s birth.