Prince Sultan University

Prince Sultan University (PSU) is a private non-profit university in the King Salman neighbourhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was the kingdom's first private non-profit institution of higher education.苏尔坦亲王大学（简称 PSU）是沙特阿拉伯首都利雅得国王萨勒曼区的私立非营利大学，也是该国第一所私立非营利高等教育机构。

It was founded in 1998 as Prince Sultan College by the Riyadh Philanthropic Society for Science under the patronage of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, then governor of Riyadh, and was raised to university status by the Ministry of Higher Education in 2003.学校于 1998 年由利雅得科学慈善协会创办，初名苏尔坦亲王学院，创办时受到时任利雅得省长萨勒曼·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王的支持；2003 年经高等教育部批准升格为大学。

PSU ranks 488th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, teaches about 7,025 undergraduates and 240 graduate students in six colleges, and its researchers have contributed 11,201 works cited 325,586 times in OpenAlex.苏尔坦亲王大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 488，六个学院共培养约 7,025 名本科生与 240 名研究生，其科研人员在 OpenAlex 中的论文数为 11,201 篇、被引 325,586 次。

History

• The establishment of Prince Sultan College was announced in 1998 at a ceremony attended by Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, as a gift from the people of Riyadh on his return from medical treatment abroad.1998 年学校在一场苏尔坦·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹亲王出席的仪式上宣布成立，初名苏尔坦亲王学院，是利雅得民众在其结束海外治疗后献上的礼物。

• The moving figure behind the college was King Salman bin Abdulaziz, then governor of Riyadh and chairman of the board of the Al-Riyadh Philanthropic Society for Science.推动学院创办的关键人物是时任利雅得省长、利雅得科学慈善协会董事会主席萨勒曼·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王。

• In Rabi al-Thani 1419 AH, corresponding to 1998, the Ministry of Higher Education licensed Prince Sultan College as the first private college in the kingdom.回历 1419 年赖比尔·阿色尼月即公元 1998 年，高等教育部批准设立苏尔坦亲王学院，为沙特王国第一所私立学院。

• In Jumada al-Thani 1419 AH the first board of trustees was formed under the chairmanship of Prince Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf.回历 1419 年主马达·阿色尼月，学院成立首届董事会，由阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·本·穆罕默德·本·阿亚夫亲王博士任主席。

• In Dhu al-Hijjah 1419 AH, corresponding to the end of 1998, teaching began at the college.回历 1419 年都尔黑哲月即 1998 年底，学院正式开始授课。

• In 1999 and 2000 the first cohort of about 152 students was admitted to the preparatory year, taught by 22 faculty members.1999 至 2000 学年，学院迎来首批约 152 名学生就读预科年课程，由 22 名教师授课。

• In 2000 and 2001 Prince Sultan directed that the college be transferred to Prince Sultan University and that degree programmes be developed in computer science and information systems, finance, accounting and marketing.2000 至 2001 年苏尔坦亲王指示将学院升格为苏尔坦亲王大学，并在男生校区开设计算机科学与信息系统、金融、会计与市场营销等学位课程。

• In Sha'ban 1421 AH, corresponding to 2001, Prince Sultan inaugurated the college at a ceremony where the governor of Riyadh, the future King Salman, spoke of the citizens' affection for him.回历 1421 年舍尔邦月即 2001 年，苏尔坦亲王为学院举行落成典礼，时任利雅得省长、后来的萨勒曼国王在典礼上讲述了民众对他的爱戴。

• Between 2001 and 2003 King Salman, then governor of Riyadh, directed the creation of a women's college, which the Ministry of Higher Education approved.2001 至 2003 年间，时任利雅得省长的萨勒曼国王指示创办女子学院，高等教育部予以批准。

• The first batch of 119 female students entered the preparatory year programme of the new women's college, and computer science and information systems programmes were opened to women.女子学院首批录取 119 名女生进入预科年课程，计算机科学与信息系统专业也向女生开放。

• In 2003 King Fahd approved the decision of the Council of Higher Education to raise Prince Sultan College to the status of a university.2003 年法赫德国王批准高等教育委员会的决定，将苏尔坦亲王学院升格为大学。

• In 2003 the first male students graduated, and in 2003 and 2004 the first cohort of 22 graduates received their degrees at a ceremony presided over by King Salman.2003 年首届男生毕业；2003 至 2004 年首批 22 名毕业生在萨勒曼国王主持的典礼上获授学位。

• Cooperative learning was made a degree requirement so that graduates would be prepared for the labour market, and every student now completes an internship or cooperative programme.合作教育被列为学位要求，以便毕业生适应就业市场；如今每名学生都须完成实习或合作教育项目。

• Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Saif served as the college's president from 1998 to 2005, when he was succeeded by Dr. Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Yamani, who has led the university since June 2005.艾哈迈德·穆罕默德·阿尔赛夫博士自 1998 年至 2005 年担任学院院长；2005 年 6 月起艾哈迈德·本·萨利赫·阿尔亚玛尼博士接任，领导学校至今。

• In 2006 the College of Law was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education, introducing the first bilingual legal education programme in Saudi Arabia.2006 年经教育部批准设立法学院，开设沙特阿拉伯首个双语法律教育项目。

• In 2016 the College of Law received full accreditation from the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment for a seven-year term, and PSU became the first private university in the kingdom to hold full institutional accreditation.2016 年法学院获得国家学术认证与评估委员会为期七年的完全认证；学校也成为沙特首所获得机构层面完全认证的私立大学。

• In 2023 the university agreed with Shenzhen University of China to establish a Confucius Institute, which became the first Confucius Institute to be formally inaugurated in Riyadh.2023 年学校与中国深圳大学达成共建孔子学院的协议，该孔子学院成为利雅得第一所正式揭牌的孔子学院。

• On 24 September 2025 PSU recorded its first publication in the Nature family, a registered report in Nature Human Behaviour produced with the university's Language and Communication Research Lab.2025 年 9 月 24 日学校实现《自然》系列期刊的首次发表，这篇注册报告由学校语言与传播研究实验室参与完成，刊于《自然·人类行为》。

• In 2026 the board of trustees, chaired by Prince Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf, directed the establishment of a university publishing house.2026 年由阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·本·穆罕默德·本·阿亚夫亲王博士任主席的董事会指示创办大学出版社。

• The college opened with the preparatory year as its foundation, followed by degree programmes in computer science and information systems, finance, accounting and marketing that formed the first subjects taught on the men's campus.学院以预科年课程为基础起步，随后开设计算机科学与信息系统、金融、会计与市场营销等学位课程，构成男生校区最早的教学内容。

• The Al-Riyadh Philanthropic Society for Science, whose board King Salman chaired while governor of Riyadh, remains the legal umbrella of the university, which is licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education.利雅得科学慈善协会在萨勒曼国王任利雅得省长期间由其担任董事会主席，至今仍是学校的法定举办主体；学校持有高等教育部颁发的办学许可。

• PSU's institutional accreditation from the National Center for Academic Accreditation and eValuation was first granted for the period 2010 to 2017 and renewed for 2017 to 2024 and again for 2025 to 2031, and the university now holds eighteen accreditations in total.学校获得国家学术认证与评估委员会的机构认证，首次覆盖 2010 至 2017 年，其后两度续期，分别覆盖 2017 至 2024 年与 2025 至 2031 年，目前全校认证项目合计 18 项。

• The PSU Strategic Plan for 2024 to 2030 sets the university's course for the rest of the decade, tying its research, teaching and community service to Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.学校 2024 至 2030 年战略规划确定了本十年余下的发展方向，将科研、教学与社区服务同沙特「愿景 2030」相衔接。

Academics

• PSU is organised into six colleges, covering architecture and design, business administration, computer and information sciences, engineering, humanities and sciences, and law.苏尔坦亲王大学设六个学院，分别涵盖建筑与设计、工商管理、计算机与信息科学、工程、人文与科学以及法学。

• It offers twenty-two programmes, seventeen of them at undergraduate level and five at graduate level, across those colleges.学校共开设 22 个专业项目，其中本科层次 17 个、研究生层次 5 个，分布在各学院。

• The College of Business Administration offers programmes in aviation management, accounting, marketing and finance together with an MBA and an MBA for graduates of military colleges, accredited by AACSB and the CFA Institute.工商管理学院开设航空管理、会计、市场营销与金融等专业，并提供工商管理硕士以及面向军事学院毕业生的工商管理硕士项目，相关认证来自 AACSB 与 CFA 协会。

• The College of Computer and Information Sciences teaches computer science, information systems and software engineering and offers master's degrees in cybersecurity and software engineering.计算机与信息科学学院开设计算机科学、信息系统与软件工程专业，并提供网络安全与软件工程硕士学位。

• The College of Engineering offers civil and environmental, electrical, production and manufacturing, communications and networks, construction, mechanical, and industrial and systems engineering, together with a master's in engineering management.工程学院开设土木与环境、电气、生产与制造、通信与网络、建筑、机械以及工业与系统工程等专业，并提供工程管理硕士项目。

• The College of Law, established in 2006, runs the country's first bilingual legal education programme and a master of commercial law.2006 年设立的法学院开设全国首个双语法律教育项目，并设有商法硕士项目。

• The College of Humanities and Sciences offers translation and applied linguistics, while the College of Architecture and Design teaches architecture and interior design.人文与科学学院开设翻译与应用语言学专业，建筑与设计学院则开设建筑学与室内设计专业。

• The university has 372 faculty members at university level and 109 in the preparatory year programme, giving a student-to-faculty ratio of 15.3 to 1.学校有校级师资 372 人、预科年师资 109 人，师生比为 15.3 比 1。

• Its average class size is 24.52 students, and its teaching space comprises 129 classrooms and 77 laboratories.学校平均班额为 24.52 名学生，教学空间包括 129 间教室与 77 个实验室。

• At its latest published count the university enrolled 7,025 undergraduate students, 240 graduate students and 1,005 students in the preparatory year programme.按最新公布的数据，学校有本科生 7,025 人、研究生 240 人、预科年学生 1,005 人。

• The preparatory year programme prepares entrants for English-medium study in the six colleges and accounts for more than a tenth of the student body.预科年课程帮助入学者适应六个学院的英语授课环境，其学生规模占全校学生总数的十分之一以上。

• The university has awarded 9,394 undergraduate degrees and 1,196 graduate degrees since its foundation.自建校以来，学校已授予本科学位 9,394 个、研究生学位 1,196 个。

• Its Research and Initiatives Center funds distinguished researcher programmes and supports laboratories and research groups across the colleges.学校研究与倡议中心资助杰出研究者计划，并支持各学院的实验室与研究团队。

• The Language and Communication Research Lab, led by Professor Dina El-Dakhs, works on psycholinguistics and cross-linguistic research and received a certificate of excellence from the university for its 2025 Nature publication.由迪娜·埃尔达赫斯教授领导的语言与传播研究实验室从事心理语言学与跨语言研究，并因 2025 年《自然》系列论文获得学校颁发的卓越证书。

• The Confucius Institute run with Shenzhen University teaches Chinese language and culture and supports academic exchange between Saudi Arabia and China.学校与深圳大学共建的孔子学院教授汉语与中国文化，并推动沙特与中国之间的学术交流。

• Its Research and Initiatives Center coordinates more than twenty research laboratories and groups distributed across the six colleges, supporting interdisciplinary work, industry partnerships and the commercialisation of research.学校的研究与倡议中心统筹分布在六个学院的二十余个研究实验室与研究团队，推动跨学科研究、产业合作与成果转化。

• Beyond its NCAAA institutional accreditation the university carries programme accreditations from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for its computing and software engineering programmes, from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the CFA Institute for business, from HCERES in France for law, translation and applied linguistics, and from the Aviation Accreditation Board International for aviation management.除 NCAAA 机构认证之外，学校还持有多个专业认证：计算机与软件工程专业获美国工程与技术认证委员会 ABET 认证，商科专业获国际商学院促进协会 AACSB 与 CFA 协会认证，法律、翻译与应用语言学专业获法国 HCERES 认证，航空管理专业获国际航空认证委员会 AABI 认证。

• The College of Engineering's electrical engineering programme runs three named research facilities, the Smart Systems Engineering Laboratory, the Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Electromagnetics Research Group, which support work on power systems, photovoltaics and wireless communication.工程学院电气工程专业设有三个具名研究设施——智能系统工程实验室、可再生能源实验室与电磁研究组，支撑电力系统、光伏与无线通信方向的研究。

Campus

• PSU's campus stands in the King Salman neighbourhood in the north of Riyadh, the Saudi capital.苏尔坦亲王大学校园位于沙特首都利雅得北部的国王萨勒曼区。

• The campus covers about 166 acres, or 0.67 square kilometres, with a further 26 acres of playing fields.校园占地约 166 英亩，合 0.67 平方公里，另有 26 英亩运动场。

• Its eight main buildings house 129 classrooms and 77 laboratories.校园内八座主要建筑容纳了 129 间教室与 77 个实验室。

• Average class size on campus is 24.52 students, a figure the university publishes in its campus statistics.校园平均班额为 24.52 名学生，这一数据由学校在校区统计中公布。

• The campus was developed in stages, with the men's teaching facilities established after 1998 and the women's college added in the early 2000s.校园分期建设，男生教学设施在 1998 年之后陆续建成，女子学院则在 2000 年代初增设。

• A preparatory year building and the college libraries serve the 1,005 preparatory-year students and the wider student body.预科教学楼与各学院图书馆共同服务于 1,005 名预科年学生以及全校师生。

• The King Salman neighbourhood places the university within reach of Riyadh's northern districts and the city's main road network.校园所在的国王萨勒曼区使学校与利雅得北部城区及城市主干路网相连。

• The campus also houses the university's Confucius Institute, its Research and Initiatives Center and its sports facilities on the 26 acres of playing fields.校园内还设有孔子学院、研究与倡议中心，以及位于 26 英亩运动场上的体育设施。

• The campus is built around eight main buildings that contain 129 classrooms and 77 laboratories, and its grounds include more than 30 gardens and landscaped green spaces together with over 60 publicly sited works of art.校园以八座主要建筑为主体，内设 129 间教室与 77 个实验室；园区还拥有 30 余处花园与绿化空间，以及 60 余件公共艺术作品。

• The university employs 991 faculty and staff in total, of whom 372 teach at university level and 109 in the preparatory year programme, and 26 acres of the site are given over to playing fields.学校共有 991 名教职员工，其中 372 人在校级层面任教、109 人在预科年项目任教；校园中有 26 英亩土地辟为运动场。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Prince Sultan University is placed 488th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，苏尔坦亲王大学位列第 488。^[1]

• Its rise in the QS table has been rapid, from the 681-690 band in 2025 to 535th in 2026 and 488th in 2027.学校在 QS 榜单中的名次提升迅速，从 2025 年的 681 至 690 区间升至 2026 年的第 535，再到 2027 年的第 488。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 376-400 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is ranked 546th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中学校处于 376 至 400 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 546。

• PSU did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.苏尔坦亲王大学未进入 2026 年世界大学学术排名主榜。^[2]

• OpenAlex records 11,201 research works and 325,586 citations for the university, a small but fast-growing output for an institution founded in 1998.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校科研论文数为 11,201 篇、被引 325,586 次，对一所 1998 年创办的大学而言规模不大但增长迅速。

• The College of Law was fully accredited by the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment in 2016 for seven years, and PSU was the first private institution in the kingdom to gain full institutional accreditation.法学院于 2016 年获国家学术认证与评估委员会为期七年的完全认证，学校也是沙特首所获得机构层面完全认证的私立院校。

• The College of Business Administration holds accreditation from AACSB and the CFA Institute, which places its programmes among the recognised business qualifications in the Gulf.工商管理学院持有 AACSB 与 CFA 协会认证，其项目由此跻身海湾地区受认可的商业学位之列。

• Its Language and Communication Research Lab contributed to a registered report in Nature Human Behaviour on 24 September 2025 that analysed semantic priming in 25,163 participants across nineteen languages.学校语言与传播研究实验室参与完成 2025 年 9 月 24 日刊于《自然·人类行为》的注册报告，该研究分析了 19 种语言中 25,163 名受试者的语义启动效应。

• A separate study by PSU researchers reported in Nature Communications described a neuromorphic device that reached more than 92 per cent accuracy in artificial intelligence learning tasks.学校研究人员发表于《自然·通讯》的另一项研究报道了一种类脑器件，其在人工智能学习任务中的准确率超过 92%。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 PSU was placed first among Saudi universities for research quality, and EduRank ranked it first in the kingdom for robotics research.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，学校的研究质量位列沙特各大学之首；EduRank 则将学校列为沙特机器人研究第一名。

• Forty-three of its researchers were named in Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists list for 2024, a sign of the research base that has grown since the university began publishing.学校有 43 名研究人员入选斯坦福大学 2024 年全球前 2% 顶尖科学家榜单，显示其科研基础自开展科研以来不断壮大。

Student life

• PSU has no long-standing Latin motto, and its identity centres on the phrase Leaders With Purpose, which the university uses for its students, faculty and alumni.苏尔坦亲王大学没有历史悠久的拉丁校训，其形象核心是「有目标的领导者」这一表述，学校用它来称呼学生、教师与校友。

• The university publishes a campus publication that has passed two hundred issues, covering university news and events.学校出版的校园刊物已发行逾 200 期，报道校内的新闻与活动。

• Its annual awards ceremony for the academic year 2024-2025 recognised the efforts of staff and faculty who achieved results at home and abroad.学校为 2024 至 2025 学年举行年度颁奖典礼，表彰在国内外取得成绩的教职员工。

• Every student completes an internship or cooperative training placement, and the university reports that all of them finish such a programme before graduating.每名学生都须完成实习或合作教育，学校称全体学生在毕业前均完成此类项目。

• PSU hosts the International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications and the International Conference on Sustainability.学校举办数据科学与机器学习应用国际会议以及可持续发展国际会议。

• A Confucius Institute teaching Chinese language and culture was established on campus with Shenzhen University in 2023, and its Saudi dean represents PSU in joint council meetings in China.学校 2023 年与深圳大学在校园内共建教授汉语与中国文化的孔子学院，其沙方院长代表学校参加在中国的联合理事会会议。

• Students compete in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and the university invites its law students to join the team for the 2026 edition.学生参加维也纳 Willem C. Vis 国际商事仲裁模拟仲裁庭竞赛，学校邀请法学院学生加入 2026 年赛队。

• The preparatory year programme and student clubs organise campus activities, while the university's sports teams use the 26 acres of playing fields.预科年课程与学生社团组织校园活动，学校运动队则使用 26 英亩的运动场。

• The Renewable Energy Laboratory works with the Indian Energy Swaraj Foundation to train students, faculty and technical staff in solar photovoltaic system design, leading to digital certification.学校的可再生能源实验室与印度能源自主基金会合作，为学生、教师与技术人员提供太阳能光伏系统设计培训并颁发数字证书。

Notable people

• King Salman bin Abdulaziz founded the college in 1998 as governor of Riyadh and chairman of the Al-Riyadh Philanthropic Society for Science, and later became king of Saudi Arabia.萨勒曼·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王于 1998 年以利雅得省长兼利雅得科学慈善协会主席的身份创办学院，后成为沙特阿拉伯国王。

• Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, the long-serving defence minister after whom the university is named, was crown prince of Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his death in 2011.学校以其命名的苏尔坦·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹亲王长期担任国防大臣，并于 2005 年至 2011 年逝世前任沙特王储。

• Prince Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf has chaired the board of trustees since its formation in 1998 and also serves as mayor of Riyadh.阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·本·穆罕默德·本·阿亚夫亲王博士自 1998 年董事会成立起担任主席，同时担任利雅得市长。

• Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Saif was the first president of the college, serving from 1998 to 2005.艾哈迈德·穆罕默德·阿尔赛夫博士是学院首任院长，任职于 1998 年至 2005 年。

• Dr. Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Yamani has been president of PSU since June 2005 and has led the university's partnership with Shenzhen University.艾哈迈德·本·萨利赫·阿尔亚玛尼博士自 2005 年 6 月起任校长，并推动学校与深圳大学的合作。

• Ahmed Alsuwaiyan, an alumnus, was appointed governor and a board member of Saudi Arabia's Digital Government Authority in May 2021.校友艾哈迈德·阿尔苏瓦延于 2021 年 5 月被任命为沙特阿拉伯数字政府管理局局长兼董事会成员。

• Saleh AlObaid, who took a bachelor's degree in information systems in 2013 and an MBA in finance in 2019, has worked as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Oliver Wyman and the United Nations Development Programme.萨利赫·阿尔奥拜德 2013 年获信息系统学士学位、2019 年获金融方向工商管理硕士，曾以顾问身份服务于普华永道、奥纬咨询与联合国开发计划署。

• Ahmad AlMaiman, an alumnus and chief information officer, has launched more than fifteen applications with a total of seven million downloads.校友艾哈迈德·阿尔迈曼现任首席信息官，已发布逾 15 款应用，总下载量达 700 万次。

• Amr Alsaar, a graduate in information systems, became a programme manager at one of the kingdom's leading information technology companies.信息系统专业毕业生阿姆尔·阿尔萨尔成为沙特领先信息技术企业之一的项目经理。

• Eng. Khalid bin Musaad Al-Saif spoke on behalf of the contributors who funded the college at its inauguration in 2001.工程师哈立德·本·穆萨阿德·阿尔赛夫在 2001 年学院落成典礼上代表出资人致辞。