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Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

Saudi ArabiaAsia

#436

QS World University Rankings 2026

35.2

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#436

QS World University Rankings 2026

#513

QS World University Rankings 2025

35.2

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
22.5
QS 2026 rank
#558

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
33.6
QS 2026 rank
#427

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
33.1
QS 2026 rank
#588

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
54.7
QS 2026 rank
#331

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
100
QS 2026 rank
#13

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
29.6
QS 2026 rank
#593

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
22.2
QS 2026 rank
#726

International research network

QS 2026 score
32.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
3.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
37.4
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

PMU's research centres define separate routes through technology and applied questions

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, known as PMU, makes a broad set of academic colleges and research centres visible on its public site. The colleges include engineering, computer engineering and sciences, business administration, law, architecture and design, and sciences and human studies. Its research navigation separately names centres for future studies, artificial intelligence, cyber security, cognitive science, environment and water solutions, space research, applied energy and industrial decarbonization, additive manufacturing, and sustainable business and innovation. The list is useful because it turns broad interests into more exact search language, yet it does not mean that every centre addresses every question within a related field.

A question about digital security may involve technical architecture, human behaviour, legal rules, organisational decisions, or public infrastructure. A question about energy can require materials, engineering measurements, industrial processes, policy documents, or environmental observation. The centre names help a reader identify possible directions, but they do not establish a specific project, method, or current research group. The stronger route is to move from a centre name to a local page that describes the object being studied and the evidence or practice connected with it.

Why PMU's centre names need a second public check

PMU's research pages frame its work around innovation, collaboration, and activity across disciplines. That is an institutional description, not a research finding. It can explain why multiple centres sit beside colleges with different subject names, but it cannot tell a reader whether a particular problem is being approached through modelling, experiment, design, fieldwork, document analysis, interviews, or another method. A central description works best as a map. The next source should be a centre, research unit, project, publication, or researcher record that gives the question a more precise setting.

The public research route also connects the Deanship of Research with material such as policies and procedures, a university research council, and a digital repository. These are distinct types of information. A policy or council page can show how research is organised. A repository record may identify a particular output. A centre page can show a declared area of attention. None of them alone verifies a future collaboration, equipment access, or the availability of a named person. Using each record for its proper purpose makes the public information more valuable than a generic claim that the university works on innovation.

From an academic question to a PMU research trail

Start a PMU search with a short and specific statement. It could concern an AI-supported decision, a cyber-security risk, a water condition, an energy process, a design prototype, a space-related measurement, or an organisational practice. Then specify the evidence that would answer the question: code, a model, network data, sensor readings, samples, system logs, design artefacts, interviews, surveys, documents, or field observations. This step makes it easier to decide whether an academic college, research centre, or public output actually connects with the same object.

The final check should stay close to what a local record says. PMU's central site establishes a visible structure of colleges, centres, and research support routes. It cannot prove a detailed fit simply because a topic sounds adjacent to a centre title. If the closest page names the object and research context, record that match plainly. If it names only a broad area, treat it as a lead for later checking. This gives prospective researchers a careful way to explore PMU without replacing evidence with an attractive but vague label.

Institution record

Country
Saudi Arabia
Region
Asia
Status
Private not for Profit
QS size code
S
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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