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King Faisal University

Saudi ArabiaAsia

#648

QS World University Rankings 2026

26.8

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#648

QS World University Rankings 2026

#761

QS World University Rankings 2025

26.8

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
25.3
QS 2026 rank
#506

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
29.8
QS 2026 rank
#476

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
24.5
QS 2026 rank
#743

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
6.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
99.4
QS 2026 rank
#121

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
11
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
14.9
QS 2026 rank
#801

International research network

QS 2026 score
66
QS 2026 rank
#609

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
14.9
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
54.3
QS 2026 rank
#617
University profile

About King Faisal University

King Faisal University brings agriculture, health, science, and engineering together

King Faisal University in Al-Ahsa organises its academic map across agricultural and food sciences, veterinary medicine, medicine, clinical pharmacy, science, computer and information technology, engineering, business, education, arts, applied medical sciences, and related colleges. The English Language Centre says that its service courses support colleges in agriculture, applied medical sciences, arts, business, education, engineering, science, and veterinary medicine, while medicine, clinical pharmacy, and computer and information technology have their own language arrangements. This distinction is useful because the college name alone does not tell an applicant how a programme is taught or how a research route is organised.

The university's setting in Al-Ahsa also matters for research questions about food, water, animals, agriculture, and the environment. A prospective student can use the college directory to move from a broad interest to a department, laboratory, and faculty page. Engineering and computer science may support computational or systems work, while medicine, pharmacy, and applied medical sciences bring clinical or health settings. Business, education, and arts provide other ways to study people, organisations, and culture. Each route needs its own academic unit and method.

KFU research infrastructure reflects the Al-Ahsa environment

King Faisal University's central laboratories directory lists a Center for Water Studies, a Center of Research Excellence, a Bird Research Centre, a Fisheries Research Center, a Camel Research Center, and laboratory facilities connected with science, medicine, clinical pharmacy, veterinary medicine, agriculture, and engineering. These names give concrete directions for a project on water systems, animals, food, environment, or applied health. They should be treated as research infrastructure leads rather than as proof that a particular project or supervisor is currently available.

The College of Agricultural and Food Sciences identifies research units for pests and plant diseases, bees, agricultural guidance, environmental protection, and central college laboratories. Engineering research pages describe work involving radio and microwave communications, bioenergy, computational methods, modelling and optimisation, polymers, gas purification, industrial water treatment, fluid and heat-transfer simulation, and engineering education. The College of Science also provides laboratory information for physics, chemistry, and life sciences. Together, these pages show how a question can be narrowed from a regional problem to a workable scientific setting.

A practical way to compare a King Faisal University route

Define the object and the evidence before selecting a college. A food-security project may need crops, soil, water, livestock, or food processing. A water question should state the source, treatment process, model, or field measurement. An engineering topic may require a device, simulation, communication channel, or industrial process. Health research needs a clear population, clinical setting, sample, or laboratory model. Computer and information technology projects should name the data, system, algorithm, or security problem under study.

The page is a broad institutional reference for King Faisal University and is not an assessment of one programme, department, laboratory, or researcher. In your shortlist notes, write the academic college, department, question, method, study language, expected output, and live KFU page that describes the route. Keep a research-centre name separate from evidence about one supervisor. It is also useful to record whether the work is agricultural, computational, experimental, clinical, field-based, or organisational, since that choice affects the facilities and preparation you need. This turns a broad regional interest into a route that can be compared with your actual background.

Institution record

Country
Saudi Arabia
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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