Cultural scholarship program

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia annually offers its students more than 150 cultural scholarship programs to foreign countries, included in 112 educational institutions and universities around the world.

Features of the Ministry of Culture scholarship program

The program offers a number of benefits to Saudi male and female students in the track of “self-employed students” as well as those who have previously been accepted into a university below in an effort to achieve the ultimate goal of scholarship.

• A complete academic scholarship that includes study costs, financial guarantee, and living expenses for the student and his companions, in addition to health insurance, and travel tickets from the Kingdom to the mission headquarters and vice versa.
• Providing guidance programs that focus on following up on the scholarship student, evaluating his academic development, and extending a helping hand to him in everything that would enhance the program’s goals and achieve his aspirations.
• The program also offers a group of benefits to students of the third track for new applicants who have not begun their studies and have not obtained university admission.
• Contributing to the qualification of the applicant by providing him with what helps him apply and obtain acceptance from educational institutions, overcoming the obstacles he faces, and helping to complete his deficiencies, such as linguistic ability, personal skills, etc.
• Holding training workshops to develop applicants’ talents and provide them with the necessary capabilities and skills to complete their studies, and enable them to meet specialized experts in fields related to the mission.
• Facilitating the process of obtaining admission from universities, saving the student time and effort, and supporting him with the best services in this regard.

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Cultural scholarship specializations

• Music
• Theater and fine arts
• Visual arts
• Film industry
• Literatures, languages ​​and linguistics
• archeology
• Culinary arts
• Graphic Design
• Fashion design
• Architecture Arts
• Libraries and museums

Included universities

1. Harvard university
2. Yale University
3. Stanford University
4. جامعة كولومبيا
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Cornell University
7. Princeton University
8. Brown University
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. Dartmouth University
11. University of California - Berkeley
12. Duke University
13. University of Chicago
14. University of California - Los Angeles
15. Washington University - St. Louis
16. California Institute of Technology
17. Northwestern University
18. Johns Hopkins University
19. Vanderbilt University
20. New york university
21. Emory University
22. Rice University
23. Carnegie Mellon University
24. Tufts University
25. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
26. University of Notre Dame
27. Georgetown University
28. University of Virginia
29. University of Southern California
30. Oxford University
31. Cambridge University
32. University College London
33. Imperial College London
34. London School of Economics
35. London Business School
36. Peking University
37. University of Hong Kong
38. Tsinghua University
39. Sorbonne University
40. Polish Technical College
41. Paris University of Sciences and Letters
42. University of Tokyo
43. Kyoto University
44. Australian National University
45. National University of Singapore
46. Seoul National University
47. University of Munich
48. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
49. University of Copenhagen
50. Delft University of Technology
51. Manchester School of Architecture
52. Durham University
53. University of Edinburgh
54. Leiden University
55. Royal College of Art
56. University of the Arts London
57. Parsons New School of Design
58. Virginia Commonwealth University
59. Rhode Island School of Design
60. Milan Polytechnic
61. Aalto University
62. Glasgow School of Art
63. Cranbourk Academy of Arts
64. College of the Art Institute of Chicago
65. Pratt Institute
66. California Institute of the Arts
67. University of Massachusetts Amherst
68. University of Maryland
69. University of Edinburgh
70. Juilliard School
71. University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
72. Royal College of Music
73. Royal Academy of Music
74. Curtis Institute of Music
75. Guildhall School of Music and Drama
76. Helwan University - Faculty of Music Education
77. Academy of Arts in Egypt
78. the American University in Cairo
79. University of Bologna
80. Higher Institute of Music in Tunisia
81. Higher Institute of Theatrical Art in Tunisia
82. University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
83. University of Sheffield
84. University of Washington
85. Indiana University Bloomington
86. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
87. Syracuse University
88. City University of Hong Kong
89. University of Texas - Austin
90. University of Utah
91. Rutgers University
92. University of Maryland
93. Loughborough University
94. University of Arizona
95. University of Pittsburgh
96. Lausanne School of Hospitality
97. University of Nevada - Las Vegas
98. Les Roches Hospitality School
99. Glion Institute of Higher Education
100. Hong Kong Polytechnic University
101. Griffith University
102. Pennsylvania State University
103. University of Queensland
104. University of Central Florida
105. University of Surrey
106. The Hague Hotel School
107. Swiss Hotel Management School
108. Purdue University
109. Sun-Yat-sen University
110. Oxford Brookes University
111. Temple University
112. Bournemouth University

Tracks included in cultural exchange programs

The first link: Path for students on their own account

The program gives the opportunity to join students studying on their own account abroad, according to specific mechanisms and controls, such as the requirement that the student’s specialization be within the framework of the program, and that the educational institution in which the student studies is among the list of approved institutions for the specialization that the student is studying.

Second link: Path for those who have previously been accepted

It includes those who have obtained unconditional prior acceptance from the educational institutions available within the program. They will be able to join the program and begin studying after completing the requirements and conditions.

Third link: Path for new students wishing to study

Through it, those who wish to study submit a new application to join, as applicants in this path will participate in virtual qualification programs within the Kingdom that will help them obtain university admission in the specialization chosen by them. Knowing that only a certain number of applicants will be accepted through a differentiation process carried out by a specialized evaluation committee.

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General conditions for registration:

1- The applicant must be of Saudi nationality.
2- The applicant must be of good conduct and conduct.
3- The educational institution to be enrolled must be included in the list of educational institutions available within the program.
4- The specialization to be studied must be within the specializations specified or their branches in the cultural scholarship program.
5- The specialization that the applicant wishes to study does not have to be identical or related to the specialization he studied previously.
6- The applicant’s documents must be complete and correct during registration, and those whose information registered on the program website does not match the official documents will be excluded.

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