Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
#436
QS World University Rankings 2026
35.2
QS 2026 overall score
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
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
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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