Ever Considered Studying Abroad in Saudi Arabia? You will After Reading These Facts

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Saturday — March 04, 2017

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Saudi Arabia is the most popular Muslim country and is most respected by all Muslims around the world. This prestigious country, as everyone must be aware, is a holy place for all Muslims because of the honor of being the country of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). This is the country where Islam started and spread all over the world. Two of its cities: Madinah and Makah; are the most admired and loved cities and every year millions of Muslims and Non-Muslims visit these cities to pay their reverence.

Lately, there has been a bad name of Saudi Arabia for being the extremist country where people are very selfish and they don’t have any rights for minorities. It is even said that they don’t like Non-Muslims and support terrorist groups like ISIS. But let me know, all these are foul hatred rumors spread by controlled media to make a bad name of Islam. It is pure Islamic country that follows Islamic laws and all minorities are given their rights and affection. Saudi Arabia is currently ranked 36^th best higher education system in the world.

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Saudi Arabia has been working day and night to support education in its country and making its education system better than ever in order to attract international students. It is not like there is any shortage of international students as according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, over 71,700 foreign understudies studied in Saudi Arabia during 2012-2013. Most of them were other Muslims countries and some from western countries like United Kingdom, Africa, and United States of America etc. It is recommended to not pay heed to these obscene gossips as the truth is written below in the words of students studying in Saudi Arabia.

"I feel at home. We feel like one family, students and housing administration," says Alawad, who adds that there are students from Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. "We come from different countries and we live as brothers.” [Source]

"The accommodation is fully furnished and provided to all Arab students in the scholarship program for free," says Al-Hayani. "There are all the facilities to support students and make their experience great." [Source]

4 - They Have English-Taught Programs:

Saudi Arabia is basically an Arab country and their first language is Arabic but most of the population in urban areas

can speak and do speak English. Arabs you must have seen in different medias like news and social media sites, would be wearing long white shirts with camels and goats that gives a little notion like they are illiterate or dumb. But, in fact, that is not true; you just get the feeling because their style and culture is different and new from you.

It is a very good thing and admire that they are following their own culture instead of western culture like other countries. Since they are educated and working to attract international students, they offer English-Taught programs for them. In English-Taught programs you will be instructed and lectured in English language as a medium that makes it very easy for understand and learn the language as English is the most spoken and international language.

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3 - Best for Muslims:

Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country totally based on Islamic laws and as mentioned above it is a very prestigious and holy place for all Muslims around the world. All Muslims all over the world have a deep a desire of must visiting Saudi Arabia at least one time because of the reference of Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). Since going to an entirely new culture can be a little tiring but if Muslims are to go Saudi Arabia, it will not be very much difficult for them to blend in. There will only be a dressing and language difference and in addition they will get the chance to learn Arabic that almost every Muslim wants to learn.

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2 - Exceptional Scholarships:

Saudi Arabia offers a wide range of amazing scholarships from a portion of fees to full expenses that studying abroad in Saudi Arabia more appealing. Education and living in Saudi Arabia is also not very expensive. If you rent a one bedroom apartment in a city, it will cost you about USD 400 per month, a liter of gas is no more than USD 0.16 and a cup of coffee will cost USD 2.57. To cover your expenses you can a lot of scholarships for Saudi Arabia just Google it, you will have plenty and you will be happy to know that winning a scholarship in Saudi Arabia is easier than most other countries.

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1 - Top Education System of Arab Regions:

When Saudi Arabia formally became a nation in 1932, education was mostly limited to instruction for a selected few in Islamic schools. Today, public education is open to everyone. 60% of university students in Saudi Arabia are Saudi females. According to the World Bank report, female students in higher education in Saudi Arabia outnumber those in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and West Bank and Gaza.

Saudi Arabia is best country in Arab region for higher education. Best cities in Saudi Arabia to go for education are Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. Its top university is King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, ranked 189^th in the QS World Ranking and it is also the top ranked university of whole Arab region. It is currently educating 7,000 Undergraduates and 500 Postgraduates. Their total academic staff consists of 800.

Saudi Arabia’s second top university is King Saud University with a world rank of 227 and with a respected position of 3rd best in Arab. It has a huge campus of 2,224 acres. By 2015 it was teaching 55,000 students from all over the world and all this is managed by the administrative staff of 4,950.