ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ALLIANCE

Through the Academic Excellence Alliance (AEA) program, KAUST has enlisted support from world-class departments at leading institutions to help in developing the University’s curriculum and also to nominate founding faculty in each field of study.

KAUST has entered into agreements with a partner departments in each of the 11 fields of study for which the University will initially offer degrees.

AEA partner institutions will each identify, evaluate, and nominate 10 faculty members for KAUST in 2008 and 2009 based on the same high standards they use to evaluate their own faculty’s qualifications.

Each AEA partner will also be funded to develop research activities that are collaborative between their campus and KAUST. Collaborative research with these departments should grow naturally because faculty hired through the AEA process will have worked as visiting scholars at the AEA institution before moving to KAUST.

Students and faculty members will work with, and have access to, partners from both the AEA and Global Research Partnership on special research projects at KAUST.