Academics
KAUST’s academic structure organizes interdisciplinary teams around research that applies science and technology to problems of human need, social advancement, and economic development.
KAUST is a modern research university unlike any other. The University is designed to allow physical and human networks – operating largely without regard for organizational or national boundaries – to flourish, thereby creating a critical vehicle for the exchange of ideas and the development of new knowledge.
It is in this spirit, and with this focus, that KAUST pursues its academic mission.
KAUST is free of institutional and bureaucratic barriers. The University’s academic structure organizes interdisciplinary teams around research themes that apply science and technology to problems of human need, social advancement, and economic development.
Students at KAUST pursue graduate degrees that span the fundamental and applied sciences. Blending the educational process with the pursuit of strategic research advances, KAUST students and researchers will nurture the potential to transform existing industries and spawn new ones.
The University campus will reflect this open academic philosophy and encourage collegial relationships that will spawn innovation and invention.
Students and Faculty work with, and have access to, partners from both the Academic Excellence Allianceand Global Research Partnership on special research projects at KAUST.