Within the frame of the new policy  of  the College of Science and KSU that encourages the establishment of strong research groups, Centers of Excellence in research and Research Chairs within active important research topics in the academic departments; Dean of the college Prof. Awadh M. Aljohani had been in a short visit to few United Kingdom universities. He visited three famous institutes including University of Duplin at Ireland and  University of Adenbarah in Scotland and University of Aberdeen also in Scotland. Many topics have been investigated with these universities such as: scientific research, academic cooperation, Saudi graduate students admission in these schools, and mutual visits between faculty members of both sides.  There has been an initial agreement for the following points:

• Cooperative research between research groups and Excellence centers at KSU with there counterparts at UK.

• Offering the opportunity for graduate students from KSU to get their degrees from these UK selected institutes.

• Cooperative supervision of graduate students on both sides.

• Faculty members exchange program that allow members from both sides to spend sabbatical leave at the other side and to exchange  visits between researchers.

Research collaboration:

Chances towards mutual research activities with these university are very high due to excellence experience of these universities. For instance:

• Dublin City University is a leader in Biotechnology, sensing and plasma research. More than 400 patents have been recorded recently for that university in addition to an average of 4 spin out companies per year.

• University of Edinburgh: Ranked no. 23 among world higher education Institutes. It has many identical department and research interests as in college of science of KSU. More over, this university has many research centers that welcome collaboration with members at KSU.

• University of Aberdeen : One of the oldest universities at Scotland (more than 500 years old). It is distinguished by its leadership in research among the UK institutes. Most of research areas are available including Math, Physics, Chemistry, etc.

How to achieve our objectives?

You should contact the appointed coordinators from both sides to start benefit from the program. Also, contact the College of science deanship for more details on how start a new research initiative.

List of Coordinators: