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KAUST is nearby. Founded in 2009 so it's still new but it has the sixth-biggest endowment in the world. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_Univer
by kissickas 9y ago
KAUST is nearby. Founded in 2009 so it's still new but it has the sixth-biggest endowment in the world.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Science_and_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sc... :
"It was founded in 2009 and provides research and graduate training programs using English as the official language of instruction. It was announced in 2013 that KAUST had one of the fastest growing research and citation records in the world and in the 2016 Nature Index Rising Stars was ranked #19 in the world of the fastest rising universities for high quality research output. KAUST was ranked as the world's top university in citations per faculty ranking indicator as per QS World University Rankings for 2015-2016 and 2016-2017."
- mozumder 9y ago940 students and 1200 alumni. Meanwhile, a public university in the US might typically have 40,000 students, and there are tons of them. You really need a major university presence for this to work. If Saudi Arabia wants to compete economically, they need a good half-million university students.