Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University
#731
QS World University Rankings 2026
Not listed
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#731
QS World University Rankings 2026
#681
QS World University Rankings 2025
Not listed
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
- 18.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #666
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 24.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #561
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 28.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #664
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 7.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 83.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #264
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 31.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #575
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 35.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #537
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 74.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #452
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 2.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 49.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #706
About Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University
Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University spans STEM, health, languages, and society
Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University presents a broad academic structure in Riyadh. Its public college directory includes engineering, computer and information sciences, science, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, health and rehabilitation sciences, education and human development, languages, art and design, law, and humanities and social sciences. The university also has institutes for Arabic teaching and English language education. This range gives a student several possible academic homes, but the research question and evidence should decide which college is relevant.
The College of Engineering was established to develop work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Computer and information sciences covers software, information systems, data, and digital technologies. The College of Science includes mathematical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology, and medical physics. Health colleges add clinical, pharmaceutical, nursing, rehabilitation, and public-health settings, while humanities, languages, law, design, and education support work on people, institutions, texts, culture, and learning.
PNU research priorities include health, women, environment, and technical work
The university's research identity describes priorities in quality of life and well-being, community health and comprehensive health promotion, women's studies, and environmental and technical research. Its College of Science Research Center encourages work across disciplines and identifies environmental problems, modern technologies, scientific methods, and community partnerships as areas of activity. These themes are useful for orientation, yet a project still needs a named department, researcher, method, and result.
A health project should define a population, service, sample, exposure, or clinical outcome. A technical project needs a system, instrument, dataset, model, or prototype. Environmental work should specify a place, habitat, pollutant, weather record, or resource process. Women's studies and social research may use institutions, policies, interviews, archives, or community evidence. Education research needs learners, classrooms, teachers, curricula, or measured practice.
How to assess a Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University route
Choose the college after stating what will be observed or built. Mathematics and physics need equations, models, instruments, or physical processes. Biology, pharmacy, and medicine require organisms, cells, treatments, services, or outcomes. Computing needs code, data, a system, or a user group. Engineering and design need a device, structure, material, space, or process. Humanities and social sciences need language, texts, records, organisations, or communities. Environmental work should identify a place, habitat, pollutant, weather record, or resource process.
A PNU shortlist note should put the college and department beside the question. After naming that unit, specify how the study will be done, its language, intended output, and the live page for the relevant route. A research centre can help locate facilities and people, but it does not describe a particular project by itself. Mark the route as laboratory, clinical, computational, field-based, archival, design-led, organisational, or policy-focused. Name the sample, clinic, dataset, classroom, archive, studio, or public setting required by the plan before comparing the route with your preparation. A clear statement about whether the work concerns a technical system, a health service, a learning setting, or a social institution helps the reader choose the right college quickly. It also shows whether the proposed result is a measurement, a design, a service analysis, or an interpretation. Note the scale of the work and the first observable outcome so the route can be discussed with a named unit. A separate sentence about the population or user makes the plan easier to understand.
A practical PNU research question
A useful PNU project note should finish with a single practical question. State what changes, who or what is observed, and how the result will be represented. For a health project this may be a clinical measure or service pattern; for computing it may be a tested system; for education it may be classroom evidence; and for design it may be a documented artefact. This final sentence gives the college and research centre a clear task to support.
Institution record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
This date shows when this profile was refreshed. It is not a source-verification date from QS or the university.
Search opportunitiesOpportunity records may use a different form of the institution's name. Confirm every listing with its original source.