King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Research only)

Founded in 2009, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a young private Saudi Arabian research university. The university provides research and graduate training programs in English as the official language of instruction. KAUST is the first mixed-gender university campus in Saudi Arabia. In 2013, the university was among the 500 fastest growing research and citation records in the world. In 2019, according to the Nature Index Rising Stars, KAUST is ranked as the 8th fastest rising young university in the world with 50 or less year of activity. The university can count on an astonishing financial endowment of $20 billion.