More to Know

KFUPM’s track record of strong academic performance and meaningful achievements goes even further. Here are additional highlights that reflect our continued progress:

• Any student can join a PhD program at KFUPM directly after graduating with their bachelor’s degree.
• Through the AI+X platform, every student at KFUPM first learns Artificial Intelligence then builds their major on it.
• Students can receive joint admission to graduate as an engineer and a doctor through the KFUPM bioengineering program - Premed Track.
• Our students adopt the 7 habits of KFUPM students; high aspiration, self-reliance, global exposure, multidisciplinary thinking, research, entrepreneurship, and positivity.
• KFUPM students organized the world’s largest fully student-led international research conference (GSR Conference) and the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia.
• 97 new academic programs were launched at KFUPM, in futristic fields such as Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy.
• Our students come from over 75 countries, from China and Indonesia in the East all the way to the U.S and Chile in the West.
• The percentage of graduate students at KFUPM has grown over the last few years, from 14% to 39% of the total student body.
• KFUPM students won 1st place in the International Drone Competition in the USA, outperforming 70 top teams such as Berkeley, Cornell, and others.
• Courses at KFUPM use the "flipped classroom" strategy, where students try their hand at teaching, ensuring 100% student comprehension.
• KFUPM has the highest percentage of female students enrolled in engineering programs, worldwide.
• High school students who conducted their research at KFUPM won most Scientific Olympiad awards.
• At KFUPM you can take undergraduate courses while still in high school, through the Precollege Program.
• The university ranks 5th globally in the number of US granted patents.
• KFUPM master’s degrees enable students to shift specializations (i.e. from a Mechanical Eng. to a Nuclear Eng.).
• At KFUPM, departments are encouraged to hire faculty members from diverse areas of expertise to enhance our programs and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Research at KFUPM contributed to the development of a Unicorn startup.
• KFUPM is ranked #1 in the Middle East & Africa according to Times Higher Education Ranking.
• Through the BS-X program at KFUPM, you can design your own undergraduate major—tailored to your goals and unlike any program offered elsewhere in the world.
• The university's research citations have increased fourfold in recent years.
• At KFUPM, every student engages in scientific research even at the undergraduate level.
• Every undergraduate applicant must write an essay on how they will make the world a better place.
• KFUPM’s alumni hold top positions, such as ministers of energy, labor, investment and communication, as well as CEOs of major companies.
• At KFUPM, students' graduation projects are interdisciplinary and involve participants from different majors.