King Saud University is located in Riyadh. It was ...

King Saud University is located in Riyadh. It was inaugurated on 14 Rabea II 1377 AH / November 6, 1957, and is the second university in the Kingdom after Umm Al-Qura University, which ordered King Abdul Aziz to establish the Faculty of Sharia in Mecca in 1369 AH to become the first university educational institutions in Saudi Arabia, To the University of Riyadh in the reign of King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz. King Saud University was renamed King Saud University during the reign of King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, who saw during the sponsorship of one of its closing concerts its first renaming. King Saud University is the second largest university in the world in terms of space. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has allocated the equivalent of 1 % Of the state budget annually

Establishment of colleges

Faculty of Arts
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Business Administration
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Engineering
College of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Medicine
Arabic Language Institute for Non - Arabic Speakers
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences
College of Applied Studies and Community Service
College of Computer Science and Information
College of Architecture and Planning
College of Languages and Translation
Teachers College
Community College
College of Nursing
College of Tourism and Antiquities
Faculty of Law and Political Science
College of Science of Sport and Physical Activity
Faculty of Applied Engineering
Faculty of Computer Science and Applied Information Almazahmia 1434
Faculty of Applied Business Management, Almazahmiya



The university is the first Arab university to register patents in America and Europe, the first to receive King Abdul Aziz decorations of the first and first degrees at the national level, and in the patent sequence, King Saud University obtained 31 patents before 2008, The university has four patents. In 2009 it obtained only one patent. In 2010 it obtained six patents. In 2011 it obtained 11 patents. In 2012, it obtained 28 patents. In 2013, it obtained 87 patents. Invention, and in 2014 received 91 patents