Program Objectives
General
- Preparing Saudi cadres to meet the increasing demand for personnel with banking as their major field.
- Meeting the needs of the Saudi banking job market
- Keeping abreast with international and home banking developments
Educational
- Studying the basic courses in banking and economic and administrative sciences
- Studying the legal, economic, financial and operational principles of banking
- Developing the student’s abilities to be familiar with banking transactions and their importance to various economic sectors
- Studying the general frameworks and the foreign terminology of banking to meet globalization and internationalization of banking
Skill Aims
- Improving the student's skills in the English language in general and in the financial and economic fields in particular
- Improving the students’ skills in computer banking
- Enhancing the students’ abilities to deal with clients and to market banking services
- Improving the students’ abilities to write reports and to conduct presentations in the presence of clients and specialized people
Professional Aims
- Developing the students’ abilities to understand operational banking tasks
- Enhancing the students' abilities to look into credit applications
- Familiarizing the student with the risks that may arise from money laundering and similar suspicious transactions
- Participating in designing new products and services compatible with market needs
- Raising the student’s ability to interpret financial reports
- Raising the student’s ability to deal with the public
- Raising the student’s applied banking abilities
Reference criteria
- World universities
- Arab universities
- Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA)
- Saudi Institute of Banking
- Committee of Islamic Accounting and Auditing