Administrative staff 2,300 Nickname KAU Phone +966 800 116 9528 Endowment 1 billion USD Undergraduates 40,000 | Campus Both urban and rural Website official website Founded 1967 Number of students 180,212 | |
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President Abdulrahman Obaid AI-Youbi Location Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Address Umm Al Muminin, Al-Sharafeyah, Jeddah 23218, Saudi Arabia Founders Hamza Bogary, Sheikh Muhammad Abu Bakr Bakhashab Pasha Notable alumni Nahed Taher, Osama bin Laden, Adel bin Mohammed Faqih, Manal al‑Sharif, Muna AbuSulayman Similar Umm al‑Qura University, King Saud University, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud, King Khalid University, King Faisal University Profiles | ||
King Abdulaziz University (KAU) (Arabic: جامعة الملك عبد العزيز ǧāmiʿat al-malik ʿabd al-ʿazīz) was founded in 1967 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Designed by English architect John Elliott, it had 2,000 faculty and more than 37,000 students in 2000/2001. Established initially as a private university by a group of businessmen led by Sheikh Muhammad Abu Bakr Bakhashab Pasha and including the writer Hamza Bogary. in 1974 King Abdulaziz University was converted to a public university by a resolution of the Council Ministers of Saudi Arabia. In 2016, it was ranked the top Arab university by Times Higher Education.
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Faculty of Economics and Administration
Faculty of economics and administration was the first college to be established in the new university, and until this day it is called "The Base of Founder's University" , referring to the founder of the country, which the university were named after later.
Departments
In 2015, FEA received its fourth international accreditation, the AACSB making it one of the top business colleges in the middle east and across the world.
Faculty of Engineering
College departments:
These programs are accredited by ABET as Substantially Equivalent Programs since 2003.
College of Earth Sciences, University of King Abdul Aziz [1]
College of Marine Sciences at the University of King Abdul Aziz [2]
Controversies
In 2014, King Abdulaziz University was criticized for manipulating global university rankings via its "highly-cited researcher program". According to U.S. News & World Report, KAU had more highly cited researchers citing it as an affiliated institution than almost any other university in the world. Allegedly, KAU boosted its rankings by aggressively recruiting top researchers, paying scholars with no scientific connection to the university to list KAU among their secondary affiliations.