King Saud University

Continente:: Asia
Country:: Saudi Arabia
Address:: King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Web Site:: www.ksu.edu.sa

About King Saud University:

King Saud University is a public university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in 1957 by King Saud bin Abdulaziz as Riyadh University, as the first university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The university was created to meet the shortage of skilled workers in Saudi Arabia. It was renamed King Saud University in 1982. The student body of KSU today consists of 40,000 male and female students, 7% of which are international. The female students have their own disciplinary panel, and there is a center supervising the progress of female students, either personally by female faculty members or by male faculty members via a closed television network. The university offers courses in the natural sciences, the humanities, and professional studies, and many courses are tuition-free. The medium of instruction in undergraduate programs is English and Arabic depending on the chosen major. Among Arab universities, its medical programs are highly regarded.

World University Rankings

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
World University Rankings	-	-	-	-	-	-	421	453	414	370	318	296	284	289	220	180	146

By Fields

Field	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Agriculture	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	235	166	157	160	159	99	51	33
Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	151	150	147	132	110	75	98
Life Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	269	246	261	256	176	161	137
Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	351-400	301-350	351-400	351-400	351-400	301-350
Natural Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	301-350	301-350	301-350	301-350	227	195	131
Social Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	351-400	269	201

By Subjects

Subject	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Agricultural Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	222	160	160	148	134	88	54	39
Biology & Biochemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	204	209	-	125	104
Chemistry	-	-	-	-	-	185	130	132	150	125	89	64	80
Chemical Engineering	-	-	-	226	191	138	81	86	88	105	70	34	23
Civil Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	124	117	99	88	215	134	112
Clinical Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	301-350	301-350	301-350	301-350	296
Computer Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	106	82	54	54	49	31	41
Economics & Business	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Electrical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	190	153	129	111	88	59	82
Environment / Ecology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	73
Geosciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Immunology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	294	262	-	209	208
Materials Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	168	156	193	153	122	104	102
Mathematics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	77	124	67	43	41	47
Mechanical Engineering	-	-	127	203	234	215	164	157	187	188	170	194	226
Microbiology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	216	252	-	-	121
Molecular Biology & Genetics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	234	240	-	185	155
Neuroscience & Behavior	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	351-400	-
Pharmacology & Toxicolog	-	182	144	186	161	139	106	97	97	85	57	35	27
Physics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	207
Plant & Animal Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	104	99	96	102	61	31	22
Psychiatry / Psychology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Social Sciences, General	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	301-350	232	160
Space Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Energy Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	173	124	93
Environmental Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	112	62	40
Biomedical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-