Alfaisal University

Alfaisal University is a private university located in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, established in 2002 on the compound enclosing the vicinity of the al-Ma'dhar Palace and named after King Faisal bin Abdulaziz, the third king of the Kingdom.费萨尔大学是位于沙特阿拉伯首都利雅得的一所私立大学，2002 年创办于环绕「al-Ma'dhar」宫周边的院落内，校名取自沙特第三任国王费萨尔·本·阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹，办学层次直至研究生。

Founded by the King Faisal Foundation, which also appoints the university's Board of Trustees, the institution opened its doors to its first students in 2008 and today organises teaching through six colleges.该校由费萨尔国王基金会创办，校董会成员亦由同一基金会任命，2008 年迎来首批学生，如今通过六所学院组织教学，涵盖商科、医学、工程、法学、药学与基础科学。

In the 2025-2026 academic year it enrolled 7,124 students, and in 2024-2025 it reported 331 faculty members and 2,155 international students from 53 countries, while the QS World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 801-850 band.2025-2026 学年在校生达 7,124 人，2024-2025 年报有教师 331 名、来自 53 个国家的国际学生 2,155 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入第 801-850 位，同一年的泰晤士高等教育排名则列其第 501-550 位。

History

• Alfaisal University was established in 2002 as a private institution of higher education, a founding year that its institutional records and ranking profiles restate consistently.费萨尔大学于 2002 年作为私立高等教育机构设立，这一创办年份在其院校记录与榜单档案中被一致重申，未见与之冲突的另一建校年份。

• Its founding body is the King Faisal Foundation, a charitable endowment created in 1973 by the sons of King Faisal, which remains the owner and financier of the university today.其创办主体是费萨尔国王基金会，这是由费萨尔国王诸子于 1973 年设立的慈善基金，至今仍为学校的所有者与资助方，并在校董会层面维系控制权。

• The university takes its name from King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who reigned as the third king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his death in 1975.校名取自费萨尔·本·阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·阿勒沙特，他于 1964 年至 1975 年去世期间担任沙特阿拉伯第三任国王，其名字为学校所永久纪念。

• King Faisal was a son of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the founder who unified the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, so the royal house behind the university name reaches back to the state itself.费萨尔国王是阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·本·沙特之子，后者于 1932 年统一了现代沙特阿拉伯王国，因此校名背后的王室与国家本身同源共流。

• Public higher education in the Kingdom had opened decades earlier with King Abdulaziz University, founded at Jeddah in 1967, whereas Alfaisal belongs to the later private wave.王国的公立高教早在数十年前随 1967 年创办于吉达的阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹大学而起步，费萨尔大学则属于其后的私立浪潮，两者相隔三十余年。

• The Foundation sponsored six years of planning, campus preparation and programme development between the 2002 establishment and the 2008 opening to students.从 2002 年设立到 2008 年招生开学相隔六年，其间由费萨尔国王基金会出资完成规划、校园筹备与课程开发，方于利雅得正式开课。

• Teaching began in earnest in 2008, the year Alfaisal University admitted its first cohort of students and began offering instruction toward undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.教学于 2008 年正式开始，这一年费萨尔大学招收首批学生，并开始提供直至本科与研究生的教学，完成由机构向大学的过渡。

• Alfaisal began its academic life offering postgraduate and professional courses before maturing into a degree-granting university whose programmes now run from the bachelor's level upward.费萨尔大学早年以研究生与专业课程起步，其后成熟为一所学位授予大学，其专业如今自本科层次向上开设，办学口径由院校记录所载。

• Quality assurance came through the National Center for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation, the Saudi body created by royal decree in 2005 that later granted the university its institutional accreditation.质量保证经由国家学术认证与评估中心实现，该沙特机构依皇家法令于 2005 年设立，其后为大学授予机构认证，成为其学术认可的支柱。

• Alongside that institutional accreditation, the university is licensed and supervised by the Saudi Ministry of Education, the state authority that recognises its degrees.除机构认证外，该校还由沙特阿拉伯教育部颁照并监管，该部门是认可其学位的国家主管机关，双重公共认可确立其持照私立院校的地位。

• Governance rests on a Board of Trustees whose members are appointed by the King Faisal Foundation rather than elected, tying institutional control to the founding endowment.学校治理以校董会为基础，其成员由费萨尔国王基金会任命而非选举产生，使院校控制权系于创办基金，此一任命关系见于其机构记录。

• The institution has grown from a small institute into a full university organised into six colleges covering business, science, medicine, engineering, law and pharmacy.该校已由一所小型机构成长为完整的大学，下设六所学院，涵盖商科、科学、医学、工程、法学与药学，学院版图较创办之初成倍扩张。

• Its location is fixed to a single site, the compound in Riyadh that encloses the vicinity of the al-Ma'dhar Palace, so the campus and a royal precinct share one address.其校址固定于一处，即利雅得环绕「al-Ma'dhar」宫周边的院落，校园与一处王室宫苑因此共用同一地址，这一位置为多条来源所述。

• Riyadh, the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia, supplies the civic and administrative setting in which this private university was founded in 2002.利雅得作为沙特阿拉伯首都与最大城市，为这所 2002 年创办的私立大学提供城市与行政背景，主管其学位的教育部亦设于此城。

• Private higher education in the Kingdom expanded markedly during Saudi Vision 2030, the reform programme announced in 2016 that widens the accreditation and quality review of universities.王国私立高教在「沙特 2030 愿景」期间显著扩张，这项 2016 年宣布的改革计划扩大了高校认证与质量评估，费萨尔大学即处在这一政策环境之中。

• Enrolment reached 7,124 students in the 2025-2026 academic year, the largest figure recorded for the university in the available material.2025-2026 学年在校生增至 7,124 人，是可得材料中该校录得的最大规模数字，标志其单点校园趋于饱和运行。

• For 2024-2025 the university reported 331 faculty members teaching a body that included 2,155 international students drawn from 53 different countries.2024-2025 年报有 331 名教师，学生群体中包括来自 53 个不同国家的 2,155 名国际学生，两项数字共同界定了其师生与国际构成。

• In 2024 the university was placed 36th in the world in the Times Higher Education Best Small Universities ranking, an early appearance high in a category league table.2024 年该校在泰晤士高等教育「最佳小型大学」排名中列全球第 36 位，是其在类别榜单上的高位表现，凸显其规模紧凑的定位。

• Its QS profile for 2026 carried the university in the 801-850 band, a position that the 2027 edition of the same table repeats at 801-850.该校 2026 年 QS 档案列于第 801-850 档，2027 年版同一榜单仍将其置于第 801-850 档，两版名次区间前后一致。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 the university was placed in the 501-600 band, tightened to the narrower 501-550 band in the 2027 edition.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中该校列第 501-600 档，2027 年版收窄至更小的第 501-550 档，档位随之细化。

• Other 2026 tables placed it lower, with the Center for World University Rankings listing the university at 1,737th globally and 19th among institutions of Saudi Arabia.2026 年其他榜单的位次则较低，世界大学学术排名（CWUR）列该校全球第 1,737 位、沙特高校中第 19 位，与其 QS、泰晤士档位形成对照。

• The uniRank directory for 2026 ranked the institution 25th among Saudi universities and 5,254th worldwide, reflecting the breadth of the national private sector.uniRank 名录 2026 年版列该校在沙特高校中第 25 位、全球第 5,254 位，反映国内私立板块之广，以及不同榜单口径之间的差异。

Academics

• Alfaisal University is organised into six colleges, the College of Business, the College of Science and General Studies, the College of Medicine, the College of Engineering and Advanced Computing, the College of Law and International Relations and the College of Pharmacy.费萨尔大学下设六所学院，即商学院、科学与普通学习学院、医学院、工程与先进计算学院、法学与国际关系学院和药学院，此为全文所述的标准六学院建制。

• Its academic departments cover the fields of business, engineering and advanced computing, medicine, pharmacy, science, and law and international relations, closely matching the college structure.其学术学系覆盖商科、工程与先进计算、医学、药学、科学，以及法学与国际关系诸领域，学系口径与学院建制基本对应、彼此印证。

• The several subject fields named in its academic structure, business, engineering, advanced computing, medicine, pharmacy, science and law, indicate a deliberately broad professional curriculum.其学术结构点名的若干领域——商科、工程、先进计算、医学、药学、科学与法学——显示一门有意宽厚的专业课程体系，覆盖多个职业门类。

• Because medicine, pharmacy, engineering, business, law and science are all taught inside the university, its programme range spans the health, technical, commercial and legal professional families.因医学、药学、工程、商科、法学与科学均在校内授课，该校专业范围横跨健康、技术、商事与法律等专业学位门类，覆盖多数职业学位家族。

• The College of Business delivers management and commercial degrees and stands as one of the six degree-granting units within the university's academic map.商学院授予管理与商科学位，是校内学术版图中六个学位授予单位之一，其商业课程与其余五院的专门训练并列。

• Beyond its five professional colleges the university keeps the College of Science and General Studies, a unit devoted to general-education and foundation teaching that feeds the specialised faculties.在五所专业学院之外，学校另设科学与普通学习学院，专司通识与基础教学，为各专业院系输送生源，是六学院建制中唯一的非专门学院。

• The College of Medicine carries the university's medical training, a clinical discipline that distinguishes the institution among Saudi private universities.医学院承担该校的医学培养，这一临床学科使学校在沙特私立大学中独具定位，与同样面向健康的药学院互为呼应。

• The College of Engineering and Advanced Computing groups engineering with computing disciplines under one college, reflecting the university's paired naming of the two fields.工程与先进计算学院将工程与计算类学科合并于一个学院，体现校名中两个领域并列的组织方式，也界定了其技术学科的范围。

• The College of Law and International Relations combines legal education with the study of international relations inside a single faculty unit.法学与国际关系学院把法律教育与国际关系研究并置于同一学院单位之内，是六学院中人文与社科取向的代表。

• The College of Pharmacy completes the six-college structure with dedicated instruction in the pharmaceutical sciences.药学院以专门的药学教学补齐六学院建制，与医学院共同构成校内面向健康科学的两个学院。

• Taken together the College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy give the university a health-science presence that is comparatively rare among private institutions in the capital.医学院与药学院合而观之，为该校赋予一项健康科学板块，这在首都的私立院校中相对少见，构成其学科布局的显著特征。

• Instruction runs up to postgraduate level, the university offering courses across its subjects from undergraduate degrees through to graduate study.教学层次直至研究生阶段，学校在各专业自本科学位开设课程直至研究生培养，其办学层次较早年研究生机构大为拓宽。

• Programme quality is underwritten by institutional accreditation from the National Center for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation, the NCAAA body that audits Saudi higher education.课程质量以国家学术认证与评估中心授予的机构认证为后盾，即审计沙特高教的（NCAAA）机构，其认证构成校内质量保障的对外凭据。

• Recognition of its degrees rests on the licence issued by the Saudi Ministry of Education, which authorises the university to award its programmes.其学位认可依据沙特教育部颁发的办学许可，该部门授权大学开设并授予各专业，与机构认证共同支撑其学位的公共效力。

• With 331 faculty members recorded for 2024-2025, the university keeps an academic body of roughly one teacher for every twenty enrolled students.按 2024-2025 年 331 名教师计，该校教师与学生之比约为每名教师对应二十名在读学生，这一生师比在同档院校中处于常见区间。

• An international cohort of 2,155 students from 53 countries adds cross-border diversity to the teaching population across the colleges.来自 53 个国家的 2,155 名国际学生为各学院的教学群体增添了跨境多样性，构成校内生源结构的重要一环。

• The Science and General Studies college also serves first-year and foundation students who later move into the professional colleges of the university.科学与普通学习学院亦服务一年级与预科学生，他们随后转入学校的专业学院，故该学院在课程序列中居于入口位置。

• No count of libraries, printed volumes or electronic resources for the university appears in the available material, so its collection size cannot be quantified here.现有材料未载该校图书馆纸本册数或电子资源数量，故其馆藏规模在本条目中无法量化，相关科研产出亦只能以规模指标替代。

• The institutional research-output record used by OpenAlex is unavailable for this school, so quantitative scholarly production is documented through its size and accreditation instead.面向该校的（OpenAlex）机构科研产出记录缺失，故其量化科研产出在本条目以规模、认证与生师比等可核验指标表述，而非论文计数。

Campus

• Alfaisal University occupies a single campus in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, rather than a distributed set of sites across the Kingdom.费萨尔大学在沙特阿拉伯首都利雅得设一处集中校区，而非在全国分布多个办学点，所有教学与行政功能均系于此一地。

• The campus stands within the compound that encloses the vicinity of the al-Ma'dhar Palace, tying the university to a historic royal precinct of the capital.校园坐落于环绕「al-Ma'dhar」宫周边的院落内，使学校与首都一处历史王室宫苑相连，宫苑地标构成校园的身份背景。

• Its recorded geographic position is latitude 24.68773 and longitude 46.72185, placing the institution in the metropolitan area of Riyadh.其登记的地理坐标为北纬 24.68773、东经 46.72185，学校地处利雅得都会区之内，坐标取自榜单档案所载的经纬度。

• As a private university sited on a foundation-owned compound, the campus and its land are tied to the King Faisal Foundation that founded the school in 2002.作为设于基金会自有院落中的私立大学，校园用地隶属于 2002 年创办该校的费萨尔国王基金会，地权与校权因此同源。

• Riyadh supplies the surrounding setting, the administrative capital of Saudi Arabia where the Ministry of Education that licenses the university is seated.利雅得提供周边环境，作为沙特阿拉伯行政首都，为该校颁照的教育部即设于此城，校园与主管机关同城而治。

• The university's web estate and administrative services run on the alfaisal.edu domain, which also carries its official public website.学校的网站与行政服务运行于 alfaisal.edu 域下，该域同时承载其官方公开网站，是校园对外呈现的线上门户。

• The University concentrates all six colleges, its 331 staff members and its 7,124 students upon one Riyadh site rather than a network of branches.作为单校园大学，该校将全部六所学院、331 名教师与 7,124 名学生集中于一处利雅得校址，而非分校网络，学科版图因此在同城内展开。

• Teaching is concentrated in one place, so the academic map of the campus is organised by college within a single Riyadh location rather than by region.教学集中于一地，故校园的学术版图按学院在利雅得单一校址内组织，而非按地区划分，六学院彼此毗邻而非分散。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, the edition to which this entry belongs, Alfaisal University is placed in the 801-850 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，也就是本条目所属的榜单版本，费萨尔大学列入第 801-850 档，此为本档区间口径而非单值名次。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 501-550 band, a stronger position than its QS band in the same year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 501-550 档，明显高于其同年 QS 档位，显示两大榜单对同一学校的评价分层。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table the university is listed at 864th, a numeric rank carried in the mirror of that ranking.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中该校列第 864 位，是该榜单镜像所载的具体名次，属有名次的收录而非缺席。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, so it is absent from that year's ARWU main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未录该校名次，故其缺席当年（ARWU）主榜，与前述 QS、泰晤士、US News 三榜的收录形成对照。

• Its previous standing was carried at 801-850 in the QS 2026 edition and 501-600 in the Times Higher Education 2026 edition, both consistent with the 2027 bands.上一版位次为 2026 年 QS 第 801-850 档与 2026 年泰晤士高等教育第 501-600 档，二者均与 2027 年的档位前后衔接。

• At the category level the university was ranked 36th worldwide in the Times Higher Education Best Small Universities 2024 table, its highest placing in a themed league table.在类别维度，该校在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育「最佳小型大学」榜列全球第 36 位，是其在主题榜单上的最高名次，可代严格学科排名之用。

• By national comparison the Center for World University Rankings 2026 set it at 19th in Saudi Arabia and 1,737th globally, while uniRank 2026 placed it 25th nationally.按国内比较，2026 年世界大学学术排名（CWUR）列其在沙特第 19 位、全球第 1,737 位，uniRank 2026 则列其国内第 25 位，两榜的国内座次大致相仿。

• Nationally the university shares its 801-850 band of the 2027 QS table with Princess Nourah bint Abdul Rahman University, while Taif University is carried one band below at 851-900 in the same edition.在沙特国内，该校 2027 年 QS 榜单第 801-850 档与努拉公主大学相同，塔伊夫大学则在同版榜单中低一档、列第 851-900 档。

• A dedicated subject-table rank could not be verified for the university in the available rankings, so its discipline-level position is documented only through these national and category placements.可得榜单中查不到该校专门的学科维度名次，故其学科层级位置仅以这些国内与类别排位呈现，此为本档薄材料条目如实标注的留白项。

• Because the OpenAlex works and citation counts are unavailable for the school, its measurable standing rests on verifiable scale, with 7,124 students and 331 faculty giving a student-to-staff ratio near 21 to 1.由于面向该校的（OpenAlex）作品数与被引数缺失，其可测地位依托可核验规模，7,124 名学生与 331 名教师构成约 21 比 1 的生师比，取代论文计量。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the university, and its strongest honours remain institutional, resting on NCAAA accreditation and Ministry of Education recognition.该校未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物关联，其最有力荣誉仍属机构层面，依据国家学术认证与评估中心认证和教育部认可，这一点在文中如实写明。

Student life

• The student body is small enough to be profiled in a Times Higher Education category for compact universities, with the institution ranked 36th among the world's best small universities in 2024.该校学生规模之小足以被纳入泰晤士高等教育紧凑大学类别，2024 年学校在全球最佳小型大学中列第 36 位，社群因此偏于紧密。

• Its community numbers 7,124 students in the 2025-2026 academic year, giving the campus a mid-sized single-site student population within the capital.2025-2026 学年其学生群体达 7,124 人，使校园在首都呈中等规模的单点学生分布，日常活动因此集中于同一利雅得校址。

• An international element is prominent, since 2024-2025 saw 2,155 overseas students arriving from 53 countries to study across the six colleges.国际化元素突出，2024-2025 年有 2,155 名海外学生来自 53 个国家，在六所学院就读，跨境背景构成校园生活的一部分。

• A roughly 21-to-1 student-to-staff ratio, from 331 faculty for the recorded enrolment, gives a comparatively close teaching community rather than a mass lecture cohort.以 331 名教师对在读人数计约 21 比 1 的生师比，形成较紧密的教学社群，而非大规模听课群体，这一比例界定了师生互动的规模。

• The combination of a 21-to-1 ratio, six colleges and a single Riyadh campus gives student life a compact and closely supervised character.21 比 1 的生师比、六所学院与利雅得单一校园三者叠加，使校园生活呈紧凑且督导紧密的特征，学生彼此与教师的接触面相对有限。

• Growth to 7,124 students by the 2025-2026 year marks the maturing of a community that opened with its first cohort in 2008.至 2025-2026 年增至 7,124 名学生，标志着一个 2008 年以首批学生起步的社群趋于成熟，其规模在十余年间稳步扩张。

• Life is organised around the six colleges and a Science and General Studies foundation that gathers first-year students before they enter specialised faculties.校园生活围绕六所学院组织，科学与普通学习学院先把一年级学生汇聚，再送入各专业院系，形成由通识到专门的进阶路径。

• Its setting in Riyadh places campus life in the administrative capital, close to the government and cultural institutions of Saudi Arabia.地处利雅得使校园生活位于行政首都，邻近沙特阿拉伯的政府与文化机构，城市资源为课外活动提供外部条件。

• No student union, society, student newspaper, sporting team or residence hall is named in the available material, so those dimensions of campus life remain undocumented here.现有材料未载学生会、社团、学生媒体、运动队或宿舍的名称，故这些校园生活面向在本条目中如实留白，不作推测补写。

Notable people

• The university is named for King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the third king of Saudi Arabia who reigned from 1964 to 1975, the royal figure whose memory the institution carries.学校以费萨尔·本·阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·阿勒沙特命名，这位沙特阿拉伯第三任国王于 1964 年至 1975 年在位，是该校所承载的王室记忆。

• King Faisal descended from King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the founder who unified the Kingdom in 1932, making the house of the namesake the house of the state itself.费萨尔国王出自阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·本·沙特一脉，这位奠基者于 1932 年统一王国，使校名所在王室与国家王室同属一族、彼此不分。

• Royal patronage links the university to the house of Al Saud, the family that has governed Saudi Arabia since King Abdulaziz unified the Kingdom in 1932.王室赞助将学校与阿勒沙特家族相连，自阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹于 1932 年统一王国以来该家族一直治理沙特阿拉伯，构成校名背后的人物谱系。

• The King Faisal Foundation, established in 1973 by the sons of King Faisal, is the founding and governing body behind the university and appoints its Board of Trustees.费萨尔国王基金会由费萨尔国王诸子于 1973 年设立，是大学创办与治理的主体，并任命校董会，其机构角色取代了任何单一名人。

• The founding of Alfaisal University is thus institutional rather than personal, resting on the King Faisal Foundation and on the memory of the king whose name the university carries.费萨尔大学的创办因此是机构性而非个人性的，依托费萨尔国王基金会，也依托该校所纪念的国王之名，二者共同界定其人物谱系的边界。

• Individual trustees, deans and the university president are not named in the sources available for this entry, so personal office-holders are recorded here only by their titles.本条目可得来源未载校董、院长与校长姓名，故各任职者仅以职务记录，任何个人姓名均不作臆测填写。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate appears on the institutional record, and the university's honours are held collectively through accreditation rather than through individual laureates.机构记录中并无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，学校荣誉依托认证而非个别奖主集体持有，此点与声誉一节相互印证。

• Distinguished alumni and named faculty could not be identified from the two authoritative sources, so this roster rests on the royal and institutional figures the record does supply.无法从两份权威来源确认杰出校友与具名教师，故本名录依据记录确实提供的王室与机构人物，薄材料之下的留白在此如实说明。

• Among regional comparators, the public King Abdulaziz University founded in 1967 long preceded Alfaisal, while Saudi private higher education grew through the Vision 2030 reforms from 2016.以地区同侪论，公立阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹大学 1967 年创办远早于费萨尔大学，而沙特私立高教自 2016 年起经「2030 愿景」改革成长，二者共同构成其人物与机构背景。