Universities in Saudi Arabia

KFUPM in Dhahran is a public university founded in 1963, specialising in engineering, sciences, computing and business with a strong link to Saudi Arabia's energy industry; instruction is in English.

King Saud University in Riyadh, founded in 1957, is Saudi Arabia's first university, a large public research university with colleges in medicine, engineering, sciences, business and humanities.

KAUST is a graduate-only research university on the Red Sea coast at Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, opened in 2009, offering fully funded master's and PhD programmes in science and engineering.