King Saud University
| جامعة الملك سعود King Saud University |
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| motto | اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ "Read in the name of your Lord who created." Quran Sura 96 : 1 |
| founding | 1957 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Riad |
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 Saudi Arabia
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| Students | 61,412 (2013) |
| Employee | 6,322 (2013) |
| Networks | FUIW |
| Website | www.ksu.edu.sa |
The King Saud University ( Arabic جامعة الملك سعود, DMG Ǧāmiʿat al-Malik Saʿūd , English: King Saud University ) is a university in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia with 61,412 students (2013).
The university was founded in 1957 by King Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz as the University of Riyadh and is the oldest university in Saudi Arabia . For a long time the university was the only higher education institution in the country with a secular instead of the Islamic curriculum. In 1982 the name was changed to its current name.
In 2010 the Gazal-1 was presented as a car prototype. The Gazal-1 licenses are all owned by the university.
The Riyadh trolleybus , the first in the country , has been operating on the university campus since October 2012 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 7 , accessed on September 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Universities Statistics ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Center for Higher Education statistics, Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia. Status: November 2013/1435
- ^ King Abdullah inevitably King Saud University's Gazal-1, the first Saudi car . enews.ksu.edu.sa. June 15, 2010. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
Coordinates: 24 ° 43 ′ 28.3 " N , 46 ° 37 ′ 26.1" E