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HistoryandLocation Campuslife AcademicPrograms GraduateStudies ResearchAvenues ScholarshipOpportunities

HistoryandLocation

History
Establishedin1963inasmallcompound, withanenrollmentof76students

CollegeofPetroleum&Minerals (CPM)

Today

KFUPMisacity inthecampus,witha populationof20,000 dedicatedforthe educationand researchmissions

Aprominentlocation

Intheheartof SaudiArabias oilfieldsand industrialcities

TheCampusLife

Aworldclasscampus

Unique architecture & stateoftheart infrastructure

Amulticulturalvibrantcommunity

Alargeworldclasscampus(60+nationalities) yetsmallenoughtobuildcloserelationships

Apassionforknowledge

Acityonitsown

Facultycampus accommodation

Studentcampusdormitory

Ahealthyenvironment

Oncampus sportsfacilities&medicalcare

Nearbyattractions

TraditionalMiddleEasternsouks

Modernmalls

Tranquilseafront

A30minutedrivetoBahrain

SmartCampus

StateoftheartIT Wirelesscampus ERPsystem StudentandRegistrationsystems eLearningandonlinecourses eLibrary Smartclassrooms

Academics

AcademicPrograms
Collegeof Engineering Sciences& Applied Engineering Aerospace Civil Chemical Electrical Mechanical Petroleum Collegeof Environmental Design Architecture Architectural Engineering Computer Sciences Collegeof Computer Sciences& Engineering Collegeof Applied& Supporting Studies Prepyear Skills Development Islamic& ArabicStudies PhysicalEd. English General Studies

Collegeof Sciences Chemistry Physics

Collegeof Industrial Management Accounting MIS

Mathematics Finance& Economics &Statistics EarthSciences Biology (service Department) Management Marketing

Computer Construction& Engineering Engineering Management Systems Engineering City& Regional Software Planning Engineering

Faculty
FacultyDistributionbyRank* FacultyDistributionbyNationality**

TotalProfessorialRanksFaculty:479 *Excluding279lecturersmostofwhichare EnglishLangaue Instructors&labinstructors **About60%ofthefacultyareinternational andcomefrom60+countries

GrowthinNumberofFaculty
818 856 902 952

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

Facultybodyhasgrownwhilemaintainingthesamenumber ofstudents. **About60%ofthefacultyareinternationalandcomefrom 60+countries

FacultyDistributionbyRank

StudentFacultyRatio

Mostsciencesfacultyteachbasiccoursesrequiredforengineers Studentshavealowerlevelofinterestinpursuingbasicsciences

Accreditation/Assessment
Year
1993 1996 1997 2001 2002 2003 2003 2005 2009 (ABET) (BerkeleyTeam) (UNESCO) (ABET) AssociationtoAdvanceCollegiateSchoolsof Business(AACSB) (ABET) SelfAssessment SelfAssessment (ABET)

Accreditation/Assessment

KFUPMPrograms
AllEngineeringprograms AllSciencesprograms ResearchInstitute AllEngineeringScienceprograms CollegeofIndustrialManagement AllAppliedEngineeringprograms 7programs 11programs AllEngineeringprograms

AchievementsofKFUPMAlumni
Leadingpositionswithingovernmentandindustryboth

locallyandaroundtheglobe (e.g.Aramco,SABIC,ITindustry,) Pursuehigherstudiesatreputableschools HighdemandforCareerDayfromhiringcompanies. Averageof68joboffers/graduate About20%ofcurrentstudentssponsoredbycompanies.

GraduateStudies

GraduateStudents
PhDEnrollment
160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0

MSEnrollment
156
900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0

141 120 103 90 70

771 701 701 718

840

877

200607 200708 200809 200910 201011 201112

200607 200708 200809 200910 201011 201112

Graduatestudentsrepresentabout11%ofthetotalUniversity students

GraduateStudentsDistribution
122 181 CollegeofEnvironmentalDesign CollegeofComputerSci& Engineering CollegeofIndustrialManagement 356 212 CollegeofEngineeringScience CollegeofSciences 133

GraduateStudents Localvs.Intl
140 127 120 104 100
83

SAUDIS INT'L

80
61 62

60
49 47

40 40
31

42 36 19 22

34

30 26

23

30 28
15

30

20 22 0
AE ARE CE CEM CHE CHEM COE CRP EE

16 79 4 7 8 34
ERTH

15

12

5
ICS MATH MBA ME PETE PHYS SE

FulltimeMasterandPhDstudents
500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 072 081 082 091 092 101 102 111

437

FullTimeMaster FullTimePhD
281 232 176 140 109 69 70 79 80 89 100 363

383

112

127

MASTERSTUDENTS BYMAJOR
140

1/119
120

PTMASTER

FTMASTER

10/96

100

FT/PT
80

52/24 46/23

60

39/16 6/32 34/0 19/7 14/5 7/9 2/2 4/3 3/7 4/7 4/6 7/2 11/17 19/3 7/6 5/2

28/22 22/16

40

30/7

24/0 12/1 13/0

17/7

20

PhDSTUDENTS BYMAJOR
35

25/4
30

PTPhD

FTPhD
20/3

25

FT/PT

19/2

20

14/2 13/1
15

13/3 10/4 8/3 3/5 2/2

10

0 CE CHE CHEM CSE EE GEOL MATH ME PETE SE

AvailableDegrees
AerospaceEngineering ArchitecturalEngineering AppliedStatistics ChemicalEngineering Chemistry City&RegionalPlanning CivilEngineering ComputerEngineering ComputerScienceandEngineering ComputerNetworks ConstructionEngineering& Management ElectricalEngineering M.Sc M.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc. M.C.R.P. Ph.D.,M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc. Ph.D. M.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc.

AvailableDegrees
Geology Geophysics EnvironmentalScience InformationandComputerScience BusinessAdministration Mathematics MechanicalEngineering PetroleumEngineering TelecommunicationEngg. Physics MedicalPhysics SoftwareEngineering SystemsEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc. M.Sc. M.Sc. M.Sc. M.B.A. Ph.D.,M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc. M.Sc.,PhD(soon) M.Med.Phys. M.Sc. Ph.D.,M.Sc.

GraduateProgramsRequirements
MSc Programs:
24Credithours 8Courses MSThesis Acceptablecontributionstothefieldof

research
Optionaloneresearchbasedcourse

PhDPrograms:
30Credithours 10Courses PasstheComprehensiveExamination PhDThesis Substantialcontributionstothefieldof

research
Optionaltworesearchbasedcourses

FeaturesofMS&PhDProgramsatKFUPM
Excellentcourseworkequivalenttoexcellentinternational

universities.
PhDresearchusuallyresultsinhighqualitypublications Generally,expectationsofMSstudentsareveryhighinterms

ofresearchoutcomes
Diversestudentbodyfromcountriesaroundtheworld Researchbasedcoursesintroducestudentstoresearchearly

finishearlierwithmorepublications
Somestudentsmayspendonesemesteratourcollaborating

schoolsifthesisresearchisonrelatedarea

AdmissioninPhDPrograms
M.Sc.Degree. AGPAof3.5orhigheronascaleof4.00. Threelettersofrecommendationfromfaculty. CompletionofTOEFLwithaminimumscoreof79(IBT). HighGeneralGraduateRecordExamination(GRE)score.

Acceptancerateislessthan15%forinternational Applicants

KFUPMExpectations
MSstudentstypicaldegreeprogress:
Passatleast3courseseverysemester Finishallcourseworkwithin3semestersatmaximum, Submitthesisproposalwithin3semestersatmaximum, Completetheprogramwith5semestersatmaximum

PhDstudentstypicaldegreeprogress:
Passatleast3courseseverysemester Finishallcourseworkwithin34semestersatmaximum, Passthecomprehensiveexaminationwithin4semestersat

maximum, Submitthethesisproposalwithin6semestersatmaximumand CompletethePhDprogramwithin4yearsatmaximum

ResearchAvenues

ResearchFundingPrograms

Contract Research Research Institute

Internally Funded Research

KACST Research Grants

NationalPlan forScience and Technology

StrategicAreasofResearchExcellence
Energy(FossilFuel&Renewable) Refining&Petrochemicals Water&Environment AdvancedMaterials InformationTechnology

ResearchInstitute ContractResearch
EngineeringResearch PetroleumandMinerals Refining&Petrochemicals EnvironmentandWater CommunicationsandIT EconomicsandManagement

CentersofResearchExcellence
RenewableEnergy Refining&Petrochemicals PetrochemicalsandPolymers(fundedby KAUSTthroughglobalcompetition) Nanotechnology Corrosion CleanWaterandCleanEnergy(MIT collaboration) TechnologyInnovationCenteronCarbon Capture Maintenance SupplyChainManagement

ExistingFocusedInternationalCollaboration
MIT: CleanWaterandCleanEnergyresearch. StanfordUniversity: OilandGasresearch. CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology(Caltech): Refiningand Petrochemicalsresearch. CambridgeUniversity: RefiningandPetrochemicals research. KAUST: Manyresearchdisciplines. SaudiAramco (thelargestoilcompanyworldwide): Many researchdisciplines. SABIC (the5th petrochemicalcompanyworldwide): Petrochemicalresearch

PlannedInternationalCollaboration
GeorgiaTech: GeosignalProcessing. KAIST: ControlandAutomationresearch. NUS: Petrochemicalsresearch. TechnicalUniversityofMunich IFPSchool:OilandGassurfacescience KFUPMplanstohaveatmost1012strategiccollaboration:
Withhighlyreputableschools Onveryfocusedresearchareas

DhahranTechnoValley
Technical & Business Incubators King Abdullah Science Park (KASP) Sultan Science& Center (SciTech)

Technology

Dhahran TechnoValley Entities

Liaison Office Consult ancy Services

Innovation Center

R&DCentersatSciencePark DTV
Schlumberger,USA Yokogawa,Japan IntelCorp,USA Naizak,SA MSSAK,SA TENARIS,Argentina AlShoaibi Group,SA ARPEC,SA UOP,USA GeneralElectricGE Optimind,SA Amiantit,SA BakerHughes,USA Sipchem,SA Honeywell,USA Halliburton,USA Weatherford,USA RosenInsp.,SA Siemens,Germany

U.S. Patents assigned to KFUPM over years

80 60 40 20 0
19941995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Year

Number

Patents Issued Patents Filed

2009

2010

Invention Disclosures Received

Patents Under Processing Issued

278

78

Distribution of U.S. patents assigned to higher educational institutions in the Arab world
Other Saudi Univers ities 8% Other Arab Univers ities 42%

KFUPM 58% KFUPM 92%

ResearchAchievements
FacultyJournalPublicationsReportedinScience CitationIndex&SocialSciencesCitationIndex
Year 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 Total no. of Publications 297 314 342 412 498 570

ResearchAchievements
Increaseinpublicationsinthelasttwoyears. PublishedpapersinNatureandScience. TheMathematicsandStatisticsDepartmenthas

beenranked58thintheWorldbyShanghai Ranking.
MostofpublicationsareintopQ1andQ2 high

impactfactorISIjournals.

OpportunityforResearchFunding
Venue InSRMillions

RI DSR Centers ofExcellence KACST(AnnualProgram) KACST(National Plan)

65 22 130(Over 5Years) 40 145(Over 3Years)

*Figuresrepresentdirectfunding

ScholarshipPositions

ScholarshipsOpportunities
ScholarshipPositions
MSLevel: ResearchAssistant(RA) PhDLevel: LecturerB

Areas
AllSciences AllEngineering ComputerEngineering

andSciences
Business&Management

FinancialBenefits
Freetuition (60,000SRannually) Amonthlystipend: PhD(4025SR),MS(1725SR) Extraincomefromfundedprojects (Variabledependingonactivity) Freetextbooks Freemedicalcare Freefurnishedbachelorhousing FreehousingformarriedPhDstudents (ifavailable&perconditions) Roundtripairticketsatstart&end SubsidizedmealsintheUniversity cafeteria

GraduateStudiesContacts
Forapplicationmaterialandfurther

information,pleaseuseoneofthefollowing:

VisitthewebsiteoftheDeanshipofGraduate Studies atwww.kfupm.edu.sa/gs Sendanemailtogsadmissions@kfupm.edu.sa VisittheAdmissionOfficeinBldg.59,Room1045. Phone:0096638602800

PostDocFellowshipOpportunities
InCentersofResearchExcellence
Workwithfacultymembersandresearchersinthecenters Teachonecourseeverysemester(Gainexperience) ForexcellentPostDocs,fulltimefacultypositionsmaybeoffered

Package
Around100,000SRannually Otherbenefitsaresameasfulltimefacultyincludinghousing,

medicalcare,etc.

Contacts
DeanshipofFacultyAffairs(faculty@kfupm.edu.sa) CentersofResearchExcellenceviaemail(checkKFUPMwebsite)

Thank you