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QS #421Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia· QS World University Rankings 2027

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University

What stands out

  • Lowest in Saudi Arabia

    ~SAR 65,000a year

    Lowest undergraduate Computer Science fee of the 4 universities in Saudi Arabia we have priced

    For Computer Engineering. The cheapest of the others is KAU, at ~SAR 70,000 a year.

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Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, has 14 undergraduate courses listed on StudyPath. International tuition runs from ~SAR 60,000 to ~SAR 65,000 a year depending on the course. PMU publishes its own accommodation prices, from SAR 6,350 per semester. Every figure above was read from PMU's own published pages and last checked on 28 August 2026.

Courses
14
Fees verified
14 / 14
International tuition across 14 courses

~SAR 60,000to~SAR 65,000a year

Lowest: Accounting B.S. and 5 othersHighest: Software Engineering B.S. and 7 others
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Not set — every fee below is the international rate. Home and EU/EEA rates are often far lower.

courses

14 courses

B.S. · Software Engineering

International tuition

SAR 32,500 per term

Verified

2026/27 · Faculty-wide rate · All students — no separate international rate

PMU’s official Fall 2026/2027 undergraduate fee schedule prices full-time students in the College of Computer Engineering and Science (which includes Software Engineering) at SAR 32,500/semester, covering 12–18 credit/billable hours (additional hours beyond 18 billed separately at SAR 2,708.30/credit hour). The same page states "VAT for Non-Saudi Students: A 15% VAT applies to tuition and fees" (versus VAT on fees only, not tuition, for Saudi students) — so a non-Saudi/international student’s effective per-semester cost is roughly SAR 37,375 (SAR 32,500 + 15% VAT). The headline SAR 32,500 figure actually printed on the page is recorded as `amount`; the VAT surcharge that raises the international total is explained here rather than folded into the recorded amount, since the VAT-inclusive total does not itself appear on the page.

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B.S. · Computer Science, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

International tuition

SAR 32,500 per term

Verified

2026/27 · Faculty-wide rate · All students — no separate international rate

PMU's official Fall 2026/2027 undergraduate fee schedule prices full-time students in the College of Engineering, College of Computer Engineering and Science, and College of Architecture and Design at SAR 32,500/semester, covering 12-18 credit/billable hours (additional hours beyond 18 billed separately at SAR 2,708.30/credit hour). The same page states "VAT for Non-Saudi Students: A 15% VAT applies to tuition and fees" -- so a non-Saudi/international student's effective per-semester cost is roughly SAR 37,375 (SAR 32,500 + 15% VAT). The headline SAR 32,500 figure actually printed on the page is recorded as `amount`.

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Intake
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Taught in
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Source
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What you'll study

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Computer Science

B.S. · Computer Science

International tuition

SAR 32,500 per term

Verified

2026/27 · Faculty-wide rate · All students — no separate international rate

PMU's official Fall 2026/2027 undergraduate fee schedule prices full-time students in the College of Engineering, College of Computer Engineering and Science, and College of Architecture and Design at SAR 32,500/semester, covering 12-18 credit/billable hours (additional hours beyond 18 billed separately at SAR 2,708.30/credit hour). The same page states "VAT for Non-Saudi Students: A 15% VAT applies to tuition and fees" -- so a non-Saudi/international student's effective per-semester cost is roughly SAR 37,375 (SAR 32,500 + 15% VAT). The headline SAR 32,500 figure actually printed on the page is recorded as `amount`.

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Intake
Not verified
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Not verified

What you'll study

Not yet added.

B.S. · Computer Science

International tuition

SAR 32,500 per term

Verified

2026/27 · Faculty-wide rate · All students — no separate international rate

PMU's official Fall 2026/2027 undergraduate fee schedule prices full-time students in the College of Engineering, College of Computer Engineering and Science, and College of Architecture and Design at SAR 32,500/semester, covering 12-18 credit/billable hours (additional hours beyond 18 billed separately at SAR 2,708.30/credit hour). The same page states "VAT for Non-Saudi Students: A 15% VAT applies to tuition and fees" -- so a non-Saudi/international student's effective per-semester cost is roughly SAR 37,375 (SAR 32,500 + 15% VAT). The headline SAR 32,500 figure actually printed on the page is recorded as `amount`.

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Intake
Not verified
Taught in
English
Source
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Civil Engineering

B.S. · Civil Engineering

International tuition

SAR 32,500 per term

Verified

2026/27 · Faculty-wide rate · All students — no separate international rate

PMU's official Fall 2026/2027 undergraduate fee schedule prices full-time students in the College of Engineering, College of Computer Engineering and Science, and College of Architecture and Design at SAR 32,500/semester, covering 12-18 credit/billable hours (additional hours beyond 18 billed separately at SAR 2,708.30/credit hour). The same page states "VAT for Non-Saudi Students: A 15% VAT applies to tuition and fees" -- so a non-Saudi/international student's effective per-semester cost is roughly SAR 37,375 (SAR 32,500 + 15% VAT). The headline SAR 32,500 figure actually printed on the page is recorded as `amount`.

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
Not verified
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Not verified

What you'll study

Not yet added.

B.S. · Electrical & Electronic Engineering

International tuition

SAR 32,500 per term

Verified

2026/27 · Faculty-wide rate · All students — no separate international rate

PMU's official Fall 2026/2027 undergraduate fee schedule prices full-time students in the College of Engineering, College of Computer Engineering and Science, and College of Architecture and Design at SAR 32,500/semester, covering 12-18 credit/billable hours (additional hours beyond 18 billed separately at SAR 2,708.30/credit hour). The same page states "VAT for Non-Saudi Students: A 15% VAT applies to tuition and fees" -- so a non-Saudi/international student's effective per-semester cost is roughly SAR 37,375 (SAR 32,500 + 15% VAT). The headline SAR 32,500 figure actually printed on the page is recorded as `amount`.

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
Not verified
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Not verified

What you'll study

Not yet added.

How PMU compares

Against the other universities in Saudi Arabia on StudyPath, using each one's verified international fees and its own published housing prices. Universities are only compared with others charging in the same currency (and, for housing, for the same period), so no figure here has been converted. A ~ marks a year worked out from a per-term or whole-course fee.

PMU's lowest undergraduate fee for international students is ~SAR 60,000 a year, for Accounting. Of the 3 other universities in Saudi Arabia we list with undergraduate fees in SAR, 2 charge more at their lowest, 1 charges less. Their lowest undergraduate fees run from ~SAR 30,000 (KAU) to SAR 101,208 (Effat).

By subject
SubjectLowest fee hereAgainst other universities in Saudi ArabiaTheir lowest fees
Computer Scienceundergraduate~SAR 65,000Computer EngineeringLowest of 4~SAR 70,000 to SAR 123,288
Electrical & Electronic Engineeringundergraduate~SAR 65,000Computer EngineeringLowest of 4~SAR 70,000 to SAR 123,288

Subjects taught at PMU

Each one opens every course in that subject, at every university we hold, with the same verified fees.

Where these figures come from

3 sentences from PMU's own site each back several figures above. Each is quoted once here; every course that uses one still opens it and links to its own source page.

  1. Used for teaching language on 14 courses

    “a level of proficiency in English that will enable students to succeed in a university where all courses (with the exception of Arabic language and Islamic Studies) will be taught in English.”
    Preparation Year Program and Core Curriculum | PMUpmu.edu.saread 28 Aug 2026
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  2. Used for international fee on 8 courses

    “Tuition Fee – College of Architecture and Design, College of Computer Engineering and Science, College of Engineering SAR 32,500 / semester: Covers enrollment of 12 to 18 credit/billable hours.”
    Undergraduate Fees Intake 2026/2027 | Registration Office | PMUpmu.edu.saread 28 Aug 2026
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  3. Used for international fee on 6 courses

    “Tuition Fee – College of Business Administration, College of Law SAR 30,000 / semester: Covers enrollment of 12 to 18 credit/billable hours.”
    Undergraduate Fees Intake 2026/2027 | Registration Office | PMUpmu.edu.saread 28 Aug 2026
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More about PMU

About & contact

Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia· view on Google Maps ↗pmu.edu.sa ↗

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Accommodation

SAR 6,350–SAR 17,000per semester

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University student housing, per-semester fee by room type. The table PMU publishes is headed “Housing Fees for Academic Year 2020-2021” and is the most recent one the university has issued, so treat it as indicative rather than current.

  • Sharing room - double occupancy with a shared bathSAR 6,350
  • Semi-private room - single occupancy with a shared bathSAR 9,000
  • Private room - single occupancy with a private bathSAR 15,000
  • Studio apartment - single occupancy with a private bathSAR 17,000

PMU’s housing page still carries the 2020-2021 table and the university publishes nothing newer: neither the Housing Services page nor the Residence Halls page carries a figure at all, and the Registration Office’s fee pages cover tuition only. The same table gives an annual column alongside the per-semester one, at double each semester figure, and it contains an obvious typo, printing the private room’s annual fee as SR 30,0000. A deposit, amount unspecified, is set in the housing application and must be paid before moving in; it is refunded if the unit is undamaged. Housing for female students is described as being to the same standard and in the same location as faculty housing, with a designated lift for students. Guest rooms are bookable through the Accommodation Department.

Published by the university itself, not a live listings price. Actual cost depends on room type, availability and when you apply.

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“Housing Fees for Academic Year 2020-2021 Type of Room Per Semester Per Academic Year Studio apartment Single occupancy with a private bath SR 17,000/semester SR 34,000/academic year Private room Single occupancy with a private bath SR 15,000/semester SR 30,0000/academic year Semi-private room Single occupancy with a shared bath SR 9000/semester SR 18,000/academic year Sharing room Double occupancy with a shared bath SR 6350/semester SR 12,700/academic year”
Students Housing :: Campus Life :: PMUpmu.edu.sa
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After you graduate

Rules read 19 Aug 2026. Check the current rules, this may be out of date

What Saudi Arabia's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.

Route to citizenship

Saudi Arabian citizenship is governed by the Saudi Arabian Citizenship System (نظام الجنسية العربية السعودية, first issued 1954, amended repeatedly since), published in full by the Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers, Saudi Arabia's official legislative-text authority. Article 9, in its current form as amended by Royal Decree No. M/54 of 29/10/1425H, sets out the naturalisation route open to a foreign national: reaching the age of majority and having held residency status for not less than 10 consecutive years at the time of applying; being of sound mind and body; being of good conduct with no judicial prison sentence exceeding 6 months for a morally-related crime; belonging to a profession the country needs (a requirement waived only for someone born in the Kingdom to a foreign mother and an unknown father); proving a lawful livelihood; and being fluent in spoken, read and written Arabic. The naturalisation application itself must be accompanied by the applicant's residency permit and passport (or an equivalent document accepted by the competent authorities) and 'every document related to the nationality from which he is detaching himself' — i.e. evidence tied to renouncing the original nationality, the same documentary requirement Article 16 states explicitly and separately for a foreign wife of a Saudi national ('submitted a request to that effect and renounced her original nationality'). Article 10 gives the Minister of Interior the right to decline to forward a naturalisation proposal to the Council of Ministers Chairman even where an applicant meets Article 9's conditions, without stating reasons; citizenship itself is granted by the Council of Ministers Chairman on the Minister of Interior's proposal.

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✓ Word for wordRead 19 Aug 2026
“يجوز منح الجنسية العربية السعودية للأجنبي الذي تتوافر فيه الشروط الآتية: أ- أن يكون – عند تقديم طلب الجنسية العربية السعودية – قد بلغ سن الرشد، واكتسب صفة الإقامة لمدة لا تقل عن عشر سنوات متتالية. ب- أن يكون سليم العقل والجسم. ج- أن يكون حسن السيرة والسلوك، وألا يكون قد صدر عليه حكم قضائي بالسجن في جريمة أخلاقية لمدة تزيد على ستة أشهر. د- أن يكون من أصحاب المهن التي تحتاج إليها البلاد، ويستثنى من هذا الشرط من ولد في المملكة لأم أجنبية وأب مجهول. هـ-أن يثبت ارتزاقه بطرق مشروعة. و- أن يجيد اللغة العربية تحدثا وقراءة وكتابة. ويشفع طالب التجنس بطلبه تصريح الإقامة وجواز سفره، أو أي وثيقة تعدها السلطات المختصة قائمة مقام الجواز، وكل وثيقة تتعلق بالجنسية التي ينسلخ منها، وكل ورقة تؤيد ما هو مطالب بإثباته بمقتضى أحكام هذا النظام . ”
نظام الجنسية العربية السعودية (Saudi Arabian Citizenship System) - هيئة الخبراء بمجلس الوزراء (Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers)laws.boe.gov.sa
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New entry added 19 August 2026. One Saudi government domain accepted as a government source here: boe.gov.sa (Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers, Saudi Arabia's official legislative-text repository — the equivalent role played by mevzuat.gov.tr for Turkey and planalto.gov.br for Brazil elsewhere on StudyPath), covering its laws.boe.gov.sa subdomain where the actual Citizenship System text is published bilingually (Arabic primary, with an official English rendering also available via the page's own language toggle, not separately captured). Collection note: this SearchDetails page renders the full, current, amended text of every article server-side (confirmed 35,000+ characters of real statutory text, including superseded prior wordings retained for reference) despite living inside what looks like a search-results URL — the plain http fetch worked without needing the browser-rendering fallback this project uses for JS-only government portals. workDuringStudy, postStudyWork and residencyRoute are all left null: StudyPath searched studyinsaudi.moe.gov.sa (Ministry of Education's official study-in-Saudi-Arabia platform), moe.gov.sa, hrsd.gov.sa (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, which regulates work permits) and pr.gov.sa (the Premium Residency Center, Saudi Arabia's 'Golden Visa'-style residency scheme) but found no official page stating a work-during-study entitlement, a distinct post-study work/job-search permit, or a permanent-residence route specifically reachable from student status. studyinsaudi.moe.gov.sa's FAQ and Educational Visa pages describe only visa application and admission requirements, not work rights. pr.gov.sa is a heavy client-rendered application whose criteria pages (e.g. /premium-residency-law) redirect to a marketing landing page under both the default and browser-rendered fetch, and in any case the Premium Residency scheme is aimed at investors, top executives and property owners rather than graduates specifically, so StudyPath chose not to represent it as this country's 'residencyRoute' without being able to verify its actual eligibility text against a graduate's situation. This is recorded as an absence of found information, not a confirmed 'no' — a foreign worker's ordinary route in Saudi Arabia runs through employer-sponsored Iqama (residency permit) status under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development's labour system, which was not researched in further depth. inDemandOccupations is left null for the same reason, though note that Article 9(d) of the Citizenship System itself ties naturalisation eligibility to belonging to 'professions the country needs' — a real published linkage between occupation and the citizenship route specifically, captured under citizenshipRoute rather than as a separate shortage-occupation list. naturalisationStatus set to 'published-route': Article 9 publishes real, numbered residence-length (10 years), language, conduct and profession-need criteria, and documents an implicit original-nationality-renunciation requirement via the 'nationality from which he is detaching himself' documentation clause — per the doc comment on ResidencyPathway.naturalisationStatus this field records only whether criteria are published, not how demanding Saudi Arabia's particular combination of requirements (especially the 'needed profession' and Minister of Interior's unstated-reasons refusal power under Article 10) is in practice. citizenshipTerms records route discretionary on the strength of Article 10, which lets the Minister of Interior decline to forward a naturalisation proposal to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers without stating reasons, even where the Article 9 conditions are all met; the grant itself is made by the Chairman on the Minister’s proposal. dualCitizenshipAllowed is false because Article 9 requires the applicant to submit every document relating to "the nationality from which he is detaching himself", and Article 16 states the renunciation requirement expressly for a foreign wife of a Saudi national.

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