graduate scholarships presentation jan2012

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Outline

HistoryandLocation

Campuslife

AcademicPrograms

GraduateStudies

ResearchAvenues

ScholarshipOpportunities


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HistoryandLocation


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History

Establishedin1963inasmallcompound,

withanenrollmentof76students

CollegeofPetroleum&Minerals (CPM)


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Today

KFUPMisacity

inthecampus,witha

populationof

20,000

dedicatedforthe

educationand

researchmissions


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Aprominent

location

Intheheartof

SaudiArabias

oil

fields

and

industrialcities


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TheCampusLife


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Aworld

class

campus

Unique

architecture

&

stateoftheart

infrastructure


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Amulti

cultural

vibrant

community

Alargeworldclasscampus(60+nationalities)

yetsmallenoughtobuildcloserelationships


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Apassion

for

knowledge


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Acity

on

its

own

Facultycampus

accommodation

Studentcampusdormitory


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Ahealthy

environment

Oncampus

sportsfacilities&medicalcare


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Modernmalls

Nearbyattractions

TraditionalMiddle

Eastern

souks

Tranquilseafront A

30

minute

drive

to

Bahrain


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Smart

Campus StateoftheartIT

Wirelesscampus

ERPsystem

StudentandRegistrationsystems

eLearningandonlinecourses

eLibrary

Smartclassrooms


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Academics


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AcademicPrograms

Collegeof

EngineeringSciences&

AppliedEngineering

Aerospace

Civil

Chemical

Electrical

Mechanical

Petroleum

CollegeofSciences

Chemistry

Physics

Mathematics&Statistics

EarthSciences

Biology(serviceDepartment)

CollegeofIndustrial

Management

Accounting

MIS

Finance&Economics

Management

Marketing

Collegeof

EnvironmentalDesign

Architecture

Architectural

Engineering

Construction&EngineeringManagement

City&

RegionalPlanning

Collegeof

ComputerSciences&

Engineering

ComputerSciences

ComputerEngineering

SystemsEngineering

SoftwareEngineering

Collegeof

Applied&Supporting

Studies

Prepyear

SkillsDevelopment

Islamic&ArabicStudies

Physical

Ed.

English

GeneralStudies


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Faculty

FacultyDistributionbyRank* FacultyDistributionbyNationality**

TotalProfessorialRanksFaculty:479

*Excluding279lecturersmostofwhichare

EnglishLangaue Instructors&labinstructors

**About60%ofthefacultyareinternational

andcomefrom60+countries


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Growthin

Number

of

Faculty

952902

856818

2010 -112009 -102008 -092007 -08

Facultybody

has

grown

while

maintaining

the

same

number

ofstudents.

**About60%ofthefacultyareinternationalandcomefrom

60+

countries


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FacultyDistribution

by

Rank


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StudentFaculty

Ratio

Mostsciencesfacultyteachbasiccoursesrequiredforengineers

Studentshavealowerlevelofinterestinpursuingbasicsciences


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Accreditation/Assessment

Year Accreditation/Assessment KFUPMPrograms

1993 (ABET) AllEngineering

programs

1996 (BerkeleyTeam) All Sciencesprograms

1997 (UNESCO) ResearchInstitute

2001 (ABET) AllEngineeringScienceprograms

2002 Association

to

Advance

Collegiate

Schools

of

Business(AACSB) CollegeofIndustrialManagement

2003 (ABET) AllAppliedEngineeringprograms

2003 SelfAssessment 7programs

2005 SelfAssessment 11programs

2009 (ABET) AllEngineering

programs


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Achievements

of

KFUPM

Alumni Leadingpositionswithingovernmentand industryboth

locallyandaroundtheglobe

(e.g.Aramco,SABIC,ITindustry,)

Pursuehigherstudiesatreputableschools

HighdemandforCareerDayfromhiringcompanies.

Averageof68joboffers/graduate

About20%ofcurrentstudentssponsoredbycompanies.


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GraduateStudies


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GraduateStudents

PhDEnrollment MS

Enrollment

Graduatestudentsrepresentabout11%ofthetotalUniversity

students

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

200607 200708 200809 200910 201011 201112

70

90

103

120

141

156

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

200607 200708 200809 200910 201011 201112

701 701 718

771840

877


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GraduateStudents

Distribution

181

212

133

356

122

CollegeofEnvironmentalDesign

CollegeofComputerSci&

Engineering

CollegeofIndustrialManagement

CollegeofEngineeringScience

CollegeofSciences


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GraduateStudents

Local

vs.

Intl

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

AE ARE CE CEM CHE CHEM COE CRP EE ERTH ICS MATH MBA ME PETE PHYS SE

27

4

127

34

7 83

40

16 1512

104

23

30

5

30

2

9

49

31 3026

47

4

83

19

61

22

36

62

28

15

42

SAUDIS

INT'L


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Full

time

Master

and

PhD

students

109

140

176

232

281

363383

437

69 7079 80

89100

112127

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

500

072 081 082 091 092 101 102 111

FullTime

Master

FullTimePhD


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MASTERSTUDENTS BYMAJOR

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

2/2

7/9

30/76/32

19/714/5

19/311/17

4/3

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34/0

3/7 4/7 4/6 7/27/6

10/96

46/23

5/2

24/0

28/22

12/113/0

22/16

17/7

FT/PT

PTMASTER FTMASTER


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PhD

STUDENTS

BY

MAJOR

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

CE CHE CHEM CSE EE GEOL MATH ME PETE SE

14/2

13/1 10/4

25/4

20/3

2/2

19/2

13/3

3/5

8/3

FT/PT

PTPhD FTPhD


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AerospaceEngineering M.Sc

ArchitecturalEngineering M.Sc.

Applied

Statistics M.Sc.ChemicalEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

Chemistry Ph.D.,M.Sc.

City&RegionalPlanning M.C.R.P.

CivilEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

ComputerEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

ComputerScienceandEngineering Ph.D.

ComputerNetworks M.Sc.

ConstructionEngineering&Management

M.Sc.

ElectricalEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

Available

Degrees


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Geology Ph.D.,M.Sc.

Geophysics M.Sc.

Environmental

Science M.Sc.InformationandComputerScience M.Sc.

BusinessAdministration M.B.A.

Mathematics Ph.D.,M.Sc.

MechanicalEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

PetroleumEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

TelecommunicationEngg. Ph.D.,M.Sc.

Physics M.Sc.,PhD

(soon)

MedicalPhysics M.Med.Phys.

SoftwareEngineering M.Sc.

SystemsEngineering Ph.D.,M.Sc.

AvailableDegrees


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Graduate

Programs

Requirements

MSc Programs:

24Credit

hours

8

Courses

MSThesis Acceptablecontributionstothefieldofresearch

Optionaloneresearchbasedcourse

PhDPrograms:

30Credithours 10Courses PasstheComprehensiveExamination

PhDThesis Substantialcontributionstothefieldofresearch

Optionaltworesearchbasedcourses


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Features

of

MS

&

PhD

Programs

at

KFUPM

Excellentcourseworkequivalenttoexcellentinternationaluniversities.

PhDresearchusuallyresultsinhighqualitypublications

Generally,expectationsofMSstudentsareveryhighintermsofresearchoutcomes

Diversestudent

body

from

countries

around

the

world

Researchbasedcoursesintroducestudentstoresearchearly

finishearlierwithmorepublications

Some

students

may

spend

one

semester

at

our

collaborating

schoolsifthesisresearchisonrelatedarea


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Admissionin

PhD

Programs

M.Sc.Degree.

AGPA

of

3.5

or

higher

on

ascale

of

4.00.

Threelettersofrecommendationfromfaculty.

CompletionofTOEFLwithaminimumscoreof79(IBT).

HighGeneralGraduateRecordExamination(GRE)score.

Acceptancerateis lessthan15%forinternationalApplicants


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KFUPM

Expectations MSstudentstypicaldegreeprogress:

Passatleast3courseseverysemester

Finishall

coursework

within

3semesters

at

maximum,

Submitthesisproposalwithin3semestersatmaximum,

Completetheprogramwith5semestersatmaximum

PhD

students

typical

degree

progress: Passatleast3courseseverysemester

Finishallcourseworkwithin34semestersatmaximum,

Passthecomprehensiveexaminationwithin4semestersat

maximum,

Submitthethesisproposalwithin6semestersatmaximumand

CompletethePhDprogramwithin4yearsatmaximum


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ResearchAvenues


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Research

Funding

Programs

Contract

Research

Research

Institute

Internally

Funded

Research

KACST

Research

Grants

NationalPlan

forScience

and

Technology


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Strategic

Areas

of

Research

Excellence

Energy(Fossil

Fuel

&

Renewable)

Refining&Petrochemicals

Water&Environment

AdvancedMaterials

InformationTechnology


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Research

Institute

Contract

Research

EngineeringResearch

PetroleumandMinerals


EnvironmentandWater

CommunicationsandIT

Economicsand

Management


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Centers

of

Research

Excellence RenewableEnergy


Petrochemicalsand

Polymers

(funded

by

KAUSTthroughglobalcompetition)

Nanotechnology

Corrosion

CleanWaterandCleanEnergy(MIT

collaboration)

TechnologyInnovationCenteronCarbon

Capture Maintenance

SupplyChainManagement


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Existing

Focused

International

Collaboration MIT: CleanWaterandCleanEnergyresearch.

StanfordUniversity: OilandGasresearch.

CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology(Caltech): Refiningand

Petrochemicalsresearch.

CambridgeUniversity: RefiningandPetrochemicals

research.

KAUST: Manyresearchdisciplines.

Saudi

Aramco (the

largest

oil

company

worldwide): Many

researchdisciplines.

SABIC (the5th petrochemicalcompanyworldwide):

Petrochemicalresearch


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Planned

International

Collaboration GeorgiaTech: GeosignalProcessing.

KAIST: Controland

Automation

research.

NUS: Petrochemicalsresearch.

TechnicalUniversityofMunich

IFPSchool:

Oil

and

Gas

surface

science

KFUPMplanstohaveatmost1012strategiccollaboration:

Withhighlyreputableschools

Onveryfocusedresearchareas


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Dhahran

Techno

Valley

Dhahran

TechnoValleyEntities

KingAbdullahScience

Park

(KASP) Sultan

Science&Technology

Center(SciTech)

Innovation

Center

Consultancy

Services

Liaison

Office

Technical&

BusinessIncubators


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Schlumberger,USA

Yokogawa,Japan

IntelCorp,USA

Naizak,SA

MSSAK,SA

TENARIS,Argentina

AlShoaibi Group,SA

ARPEC,

SA

UOP,USA

GeneralElectricGE

Optimind,SA

Amiantit,SA

BakerHughes,USA

Sipchem,SA

Honeywell,USA

Halliburton,USA

Weatherford,USA

RosenInsp.,

SA

Siemens,Germany

R&D

Centers

at

Science

Park

DTV


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0

20

40

60

80

199419951996 1997 1998 1999

2000 2001 20022003

20042005

20062007

20082009

2010

Num

ber

YearPatents Issued

Patents Filed

Invention Disclosures Received

Patents

Under

Processing

Issued

278 78

U.S. Patents assigned to KFUPM over years


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Distribution of U.S. patents assigned to higher

educational institutions in the Arab world

KFUPM

58%

Other

Arab

Un ive rs

i t i es42%

KFUPM

92%

Other

Saudi

Un ive rs

i t i es8%


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Total no. ofPublications

Year

2972006-2007

3142007-2008

3422008-2009

4122009-2010

4982010-2011

5702011-2012

Faculty JournalPublicationsReportedinScience

CitationIndex&SocialSciencesCitationIndex

Research

Achievements


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Increaseinpublicationsinthelasttwoyears.

PublishedpapersinNatureandScience.

TheMathematicsandStatisticsDepartmenthas

been

ranked

58th

in

the

World

by

Shanghai

Ranking.

MostofpublicationsareintopQ1andQ2 high

impactfactor

ISI

journals.

Research

Achievements


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Opportunity

for

Research

Funding

*Figuresrepresentdirectfunding

InSRMillionsVenue

65RI

22DSR

130(Over 5

Years)Centers of

Excellence

40KACST(AnnualProgram)

145(Over 3

Years)KACST

(National Plan)


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ScholarshipPositions


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Scholarships

Opportunities

ScholarshipPositions

MSLevel: Research

Assistant

(RA)

PhDLevel: LecturerB

Areas

AllSciences

AllEngineering

ComputerEngineering

andSciences

Business&Management


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Financial

Benefits Freetuition (60,000SRannually)

Amonthlystipend:

PhD(4025SR),MS(1725SR)

Extraincomefromfundedprojects

(Variabledependingonactivity)

Freetextbooks

Freemedicalcare

Freefurnishedbachelorhousing

FreehousingformarriedPhDstudents

(ifavailable

&

per

conditions)

Roundtripairticketsatstart&end

SubsidizedmealsintheUniversity

cafeteria


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Graduate

StudiesContacts

Forapplicationmaterialandfurther

information,please

use

one

of

the

following:

VisitthewebsiteoftheDeanshipofGraduate

Studies atwww.kfupm.edu.sa/gs

[email protected]

VisittheAdmissionOfficeinBldg.59,Room1045.

Phone:00966

3860

2800


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Post

Doc

Fellowship

OpportunitiesInCentersofResearchExcellence

Workwithfacultymembersandresearchersinthecenters

Teachonecourseeverysemester(Gainexperience)

ForexcellentPostDocs,fulltimefacultypositionsmaybeoffered

Package

Around100,000SRannually

Otherbenefitsaresameasfulltimefacultyincludinghousing,

medicalcare,etc.

Contacts

DeanshipofFacultyAffairs ([email protected])

CentersofResearchExcellenceviaemail(checkKFUPMwebsite)


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