King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is being built in Saudi
Arabia as an international, graduate-level research university dedicated to inspiring
a new age of scientific achievement in the Kingdom that will also benefit the region
and the world. KAUST is the realization of a decades-long vision of the Custodian
of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
KAUST's core campus is located on more than 36 million square meters on the Red
Sea at Thuwal – approximately 80 kilometers north of Saudi Arabia's second largest
city, Jeddah.
As a graduate-research University, KAUST's fundamental organizing unit will be,
not schools or departments, but interdisciplinary
Research Institutes.
- Resources, Energy and Environment;
- Biosciences and Bioengineering;
- Materials Science and Engineering;
- Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.
Within each Research Institute there will be multi-investigator, problem-oriented,
often industry-collaborative Research Centers.
The University is set to open in September 2009.
Please review KAUST's list of frequently asked questions
to learn more about the University, its location and programs.