Women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia play major roles in the development plan. These roles have enabled them to make their mark in various fields, fulfilling the nation's wise leadership aspirations, represented by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman. Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) serves as an ideal model for achieving these aspirations, contributing with well-planned strategies and ambitious accomplishments to realize the pillars of the Kingdom's 2030 vision. The vision affirms the development of women's roles, believes in the necessity of their participation, and empowers them in various areas of life. We know science and knowledge are the foundations of development. They investigate aspects of evolution and keep up with the world's accelerated changes. PNU's mission affirms Saudi women's empowerment in science leadership to build a knowledge society based on solid foundations. The society is equipped to compete both locally and globally. PNU has invested in all of its capabilities to increase efficiency and achieve institutional excellence.
PNU aims to empower its female graduates to compete in the labor market, enhance the university’s social roles, and raise its profile to reach high rankings. The main goals also include achieving the efficiency of spending, providing distinguished academic programs for women, developing the research and innovation system, achieving an effective administrative system, offering a healthy environment, emphasizing the importance of values, consolidating the national identity, supporting digital transformation, raising human capital efficiency, and achieving effective and sustainable operations in the university city. PNU believes that its national role as an educational institution is at the heart of development and change. PNU aims to invest all available capabilities and resources to achieve its goals and contribute to its national roles to the maximum.
University History:
Women's education in Saudi Arabia has received a great deal of care and attention, which has allowed Saudi women to take confident and steady steps toward realizing their aspirations and has given them the opportunity to demonstrate excellence in various fields. They have distinguished themselves domestically and internationally, where Saudi women are becoming prominent scholars and intellectuals. They have made a name for themselves in international forums and various fields of science, achieving success and proving themselves as competent as their peers in other developed countries. Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University is one of the successes of the care and attention that has been directed toward women's higher education. The efforts began in 1970, when the General Presidency for Girls' Education laid the foundation for the first female educational college. Since then, it has established an additional 102 colleges that range from universities to intermediate and community colleges, are distributed across 72 Saudi cities, and comprise 600,000 female students. Riyadh alone saw the founding of six colleges: the College of Languages, the College of Sciences, the College of Teacher Education, the College of Social Work, the College of Home Economics, and the College of Arts. In 2006, a royal decree was issued that established the first university for girls in Riyadh, under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and with the aim of serving the development and progress of the Kingdom. Dr. Al Jawhara bint Fahad Al Saud became the university's first rector in 2007, after restructuring six existing colleges in the city and establishing several new ones.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques honored the university on October 29, 2008, when he laid the foundation stone for the campus. During his visit, His Majesty changed the university's name to Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, in tribute to the late sister of the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman. May Allah have mercy upon them.
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