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The study aimed to know the level of media literacy skills among university students and to know the relation between the exposure media literacy and the type of education that young people receive between scientific and theoretical studies in governmental and private education. The researcher used a qualitative method, in which she applied focus group discussions on a sample of university students at Helwan University, 6th of October University, Misr University for Science and Technology, and Nile University. Moreover, the number of respondents in theoretical and practical colleges were 44 individuals, divided between private universities and governmental universities, with a total of 88 respondents. The study found that students enrolled in theoretical colleges can apply some of the media literacy skills when dealing with new media better than students enrolled in practical colleges, in both public and private universities, but in general all students of the study sample need a lot of awareness about media literacy and its skills. (Author's abstract)