The University of Tabuk (UT) was established in 1427 H (2006 G) to fulfill the dream of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to provide equal access to education to every part of the Kingdom. UT amalgamated the old Tabuk Teachers' College that had served as the Tabuk region's primary source for elementary, intermediate, and secondary school teachers.
Today, UT is located on a sprawling 12 million square meters campus in the under-construction university City, Tabuk, which will soon become the home to state-of-the-art facilities that include a world-class secondary and tertiary care hospital. All Faculties, Colleges, and Departments currently occupy temporary facilities at University City and throughout the Tabuk region, below, while University City is being completed.
About 20,000 male and female undergraduate students enrolled in 7 Faculties, 1 Community College, and four outlying Colleges and Branches. Due to the cultural requirement in Saudi Arabia that sexes be segregated, facilities at UT are bifurcated and female students receive their education at parallel campuses scattered throughout the Tabuk region. All male Colleges, Faculties, and Departments are located in University City, on UT's main campus. The main female campuses are at Maseef and Mahrajan, two boroughs of Tabuk, Duba, Al-Wajh, Omloj, Hall, and Timah.
All incoming students are required to complete a one-year Preparatory Program (PYP). Classes in Arabic, biology, communication skills, English, Islamic studies, mathematics, and physics, are designed to prepare the freshman for the rigors that lie ahead. Successful completion of PYP is required for advancement to any of the various Faculties.
Presently, degrees offered are the Diploma in occupational education through the Community College, the baccalaureate through all the Faculties, and the Masters through the Faculties of Education & Arts and Science. The Tables below provide details of the various faculties' characteristics by programs, degrees offered, and distribution of students, undergraduates, and graduates.
The University of Tabuk aspires to be a comprehensive institution offering outstanding education enriched by productive community partnerships, and research and scholarship are focused on areas that are of value to the future of the Tabuk region, the Kingdom, and the world.
The University of Tabuk afford them the aspiration for the future and was keen to exploit the present's potential to go on the road to building a steady pace and deliberate. In an attempt to translate the goals of higher education into reality and turn it into scientific programs carried out in hopes it all, concentrated by adopting the principles and standards of quality in education and emphasized the need to be exhaustive bright excellence, and based on awareness of the role cultural destruction and goals, which is the most critical achievement of national development through human development within the region and the auspices of the minds and provide them with the knowledge and skills and the supply of labor market Yalmkrjat appropriate in the various disciplines and Tospa department of scientific research in various fields.
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