Most high school grads enrolled in universities

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Riyadh: Saudi universities have enrolled more than 86 percent of secondary graduates for the 2013-2014 academic year. About 330,700 students have been admitted to programs in 25 universities in the Kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency reported Thursday.
The Ministry of Higher Education has prepared a strategic plan for the expansion of university education over the next 25 years in its efforts to implement Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s vision for higher education.

A major feature of the development strategy for higher education is the plan to launch university cities. The first phase of this developmental strategy has been launched at a total cost of SR81.5 billion and the foundation stone for the second phase has been laid. Campus areas designated for Saudi university cities cover an area of 112 million square meters. These cities also include 12 university hospitals. The new institutes for higher learning, which have been built in recent years, include the universities of Jazan, Hail, Al-Jouf, Tabuk, Northern Border, Najran, Salman, Shaqra, Majma, Baha, and Taif.

The new projects also include a student’s city for women at King Saud University and King Abdullah City for Women Students at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, a university colleges’ complex in north Jeddah and a medical city at Taiba University.
King Abdullah envisions a generation capable of successfully competing in the job market, skilled in scientific research and possessing the caliber to man all Saudi universities including the ones in the privates sector.

It is with the same vision that the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program has been launched and more than 150,000 Saudi youth sent on scholarships to leading universities and other institutes of higher education in countries such as the United States and Canada and in various countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore, India and Malaysia. More than 55,000 students have already completed their studies and returned home.
The number of scholarship students and their majors are determined by the needs of various provinces, universities and industrial cities with the aim of enabling the Kingdom’s youth to serve as the driving force for growth and development both in the private and public sectors.

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