King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Saudi university tops Arab world for excellence
LONDON, June 10, 2015
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals has emerged as the region's top institution in the new university rakings published by QS, a leading global career and education network.
The American University of Beirut is less than a point behind and is the favourite choice of employers, according to QS University Rankings: Arab Region published in association with Adlas, an educational services provider.
Top 10 universities:
1 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
2 American University of Beirut
3 King Saud University
4 King Abdul Aziz University
5 American University in Cairo
6 United Arab Emirates University
7 American University of Sharjah
8 University of Jordan
9 Cairo University
10 Jordan University of Science and Technology
The rankings feature 100 universities from 15 Arab League countries. Saudi Arabia has the largest number of universities at 19, while Egypt has 15 and the United Arab Emirates 13.
The methodology is the product of lengthy consultation with experts in the region.
A total of 3,720 academics and 2,489 employers have contributed views for the new ranking, which also takes into account staffing levels, the proportion of academics with a PhD, the number of research papers per faculty member and the number of citations per paper, as well as the proportions of international faculty and students, and web impact.
Almost 260 institutions were evaluated during the exercise and 194 had enough data to be ranked. Of these, 100 appear in the published ranking.
Nunzio Quacquarelli, CEO of QS said: "We are proud of the level of engagement we have established with universities in the Arab region and we trust the rankings will spark a higher degree of involvement and cooperativeness among universities regionally and internationally." – TradeArabia News Service
