King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (English King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, Arabic جامعة الملك عبد الله للعلوم والتقنية, DMG Ǧāmi ʿ at al -Malik ʿ Abd Allāh li - l ʿ ulūm wa -t - tiqnīya ) is a technical university in Saudi Arabia.

KAUST was opened in September 2009 and has its headquarters in Thuwal Mecca province. The namesake of the university is Abdullah ibn Abd al - Aziz, who himself has donated $ 10 billion for the university. For 2010, visited nearly 700 students from over 60 different countries KAUST. The language of instruction is English.

In addition to the classical faculties KAUST is a research focus of renewable energy and water management. Here, for example, to examine the question whether one can do farming on land with salty sea water. The spatial requirements and the technical equipment at KAUST are considered very good. Unlike in the rest of Saudi Arabia, KAUST men and women are allowed to study and do research together on campus and women allowed to drive, and the veil is not mandatory here, yet report western students of constraints, such as gender segregation in sports.

Street on campus