Effat University offers 24 full scholarships

Effat University is offering 24 new scholarships — full scholarships for master’s degrees, and partial scholarships for bachelor’s degrees. The scholarships are open for all the programs and interested students can apply at the university.

Enrolment for 2017-2018 admissions is ongoing at Effat, with new programs available for national and international female students.

The curriculum includes 17 educational graduate and undergraduate programs within four colleges: Effat College of Science and Humanities, Effat College of Engineering, Effat College of Business, and Effat College of Architecture and Design.

The university said it continues to diversify and develop new programs to suit Saudi Arabia’s future needs. It recently introduced a master’s in energy engineering degree that is the first of its kind in the Kingdom.

In addition, the university has four state-ofthe-art research centers: Smart Building Research Center, Virtual Reality Research Center, E-Arabization Research Center, and Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Center.

“At Effat we strongly believe in empowering women to play a leading role in the Kingdom’s social and economic development,” said Haifa Reda Jamal Allail, president of Effat University. “With this in mind, we offer ambitious and aspirational female students some of the most innovative, diverse and advanced educational graduate and undergraduate programs conducive to lifelong learning.”

Allail added: “Effat has annually offered scholarship programs and for this year we have increased the quantity of scholarships to grant more opportunities for prospective students. Effat is globally recognized as a world-class academic institution and this year we are encouraging international admissions to expand on our efforts to increase students’ diversity.”

Effat has built relationships and agreements with some of the world’s finest institutions and universities such as Georgetown, Syracuse, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Auburn, Tisch School, Western Sydney, and Tokai, a private university in Tokyo, Japan.

Effat University is Saudi Arabia’s first private non-profit university for females.

The university guarantees a promising future for its graduates. It claims about 60 percent of its alumni are employed.

Effat was founded in 1999 by Princess Effat Al-Saud and achieved university status in 2009.