Taif University

Taif University is a public university in the Al Hawiyah district of Ta'if, a highland city of the Makkah Province in western Saudi Arabia, and it is organised as a university of sixteen colleges.塔伊夫大学是沙特阿拉伯西部麦加省山城塔伊夫哈维亚（Al Hawiyah）片区的一所公立大学，建制为十六所学院组成的大学。

The university was created by royal decree in 2003, corresponding to 1424 in the Islamic calendar, absorbing the higher-education institutions that were already operating in Ta'if, and it admitted its first students in 2004.该校以 2003 年（伊斯兰历 1424 年）颁布的建校法令创设，收并了当时已在塔伊夫办学的各高等教育机构，并于 2004 年迎来首批学生。

In the 2026-27 cycle it stands in the 851-900 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 701-800 band of the Times Higher Education ranking, position 497 in US News and the 401-500 band of the Shanghai ranking.在 2026-27 年度诸榜中，该校列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 851-900 档、泰晤士高等教育排名第 701-800 档、US News 第 497 位、软科世界大学学术排名第 401-500 档。

History

• The founding decree came in 1424 AH, the year 2003, in the reign of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, whose rule of Saudi Arabia ran from 1982 until 2005, and it converted Ta'if's scattered higher-education units into one independent university.建校法令颁于伊斯兰历 1424 年即 2003 年，时值国王法赫德·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹在位（沙特阿拉伯治期为 1982 至 2005 年），该法令把塔伊夫分散的高教单位升格为一座独立大学。

• The merged units included the Ta'if branches of King Abdulaziz University, founded in Jeddah in 1967, and of Umm Al-Qura University, together with the city's teachers college and its colleges of education for women.被合并的单位包括阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学（1967 年创办于吉达）与乌姆·库拉大学设在塔伊夫的分校，以及该市的师范学院与女子教育学院。

• Those predecessor colleges had served Ta'if for decades under other universities, so the decree did not create teaching from nothing but raised long-established local colleges to the status of a university seated in their own city.这些前身学院已在其他大学名下为塔伊夫服务数十年，故法令并非从零兴学，而是把早已立足本地的学院升格为一所以该城为校址的大学。

• Teaching under the new charter began in the academic year 1425-26 AH, which is 2004-05, when the first cohorts of students were admitted to the merged colleges at Al Hawiyah.新章程下的教学始于伊斯兰历 1425-26 学年（即 2004-05 学年），首批学生在哈维亚各并入学院入学。

• The English Wikipedia summary gives 2004 as the establishment year while the royal decree belongs to 2003, so both dates appear in the record and are kept side by side in this entry.英文维基简介把建校年份记为 2004 年，而王室法令属于 2003 年，两个年份并存于记录之中，本条目亦并列表述。

• In national context, Saudi higher education dates from the creation of King Saud University in Riyadh in 1957, and a separate Ministry of Higher Education, formed in 1975, oversaw the system to which Taif University was added.就全国脉络而言，沙特高等教育始于 1957 年在利雅得创办的沙特国王大学，1975 年设立的独立高等教育部则主管这一体系，塔伊夫大学正是后来加入的一环。

• The merger-based founding of 2003 to 2004 matched the pattern of the era, which likewise produced Taibah University in Medina in 2003 and Qassim University in 2004 from existing branches and colleges.2003 至 2004 年这种合并建校与当时的风潮一致——同期的麦地那塔伊巴大学（2003 年）与盖西姆大学（2004 年）同样由既有分校与学院改组而成。

• Women's access was built in from the start, since the absorbed colleges carried women's sections, and the kingdom established its first women-only university, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, only in 2008.女生教育自始即纳入建制，因为并入各学院本设女生部；而沙特全国第一所女子大学利雅得努拉公主·宾特·阿卜杜勒拉赫曼大学迟至 2008 年才设立。

• King Fahd died in 2005 and was succeeded by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, in the same year that the King Abdullah Scholarship Program began sending Saudi students abroad, a scheme that shaped the international outlook of universities such as Taif.法赫德国王于 2005 年去世，阿卜杜拉·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王继位，同年阿卜杜拉国王奖学金项目开始派遣沙特学生赴海外留学，这一计划形塑了塔伊夫等大学的国际视野。

• Locally, the founding decade unfolded during the governorship of Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdulaziz over the Makkah Province until 2007, after which Prince Khalid al-Faisal took up the post.在地方层面，建校最初的十年正逢阿卜杜勒·马吉德·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹亲王担任麦加省省长（至 2007 年），其后由哈立德·费萨尔亲王接任。

• The university's public presence was established early, and its official website was already being archived by the Wayback Machine in a snapshot dated 5 February 2009, five years after the first intake.该校的公共网络形象很早就已建立，其官网早在 2009 年 2 月 5 日即被网络时光机（Wayback Machine）收录存档，距首批学生入学仅五年。

• In 2016 the kingdom announced its Vision 2030 reform programme, and the subsequent expansion of Saudi universities, including programme growth and new colleges, forms the most recent chapter in the university's record.2016 年沙特公布「愿景 2030」改革纲领，此后沙特各大学的扩张——包括专业增设与新学院开办——构成了本校校史最近的一章。

• From the 1424 AH decree to the 2026-27 ranking cycle covered at the end of this entry, the university's documented history spans roughly two decades of teaching, building and ranking participation.从伊斯兰历 1424 年的建校法令到本条目末尾所述的 2026-27 榜单周期，该校有案可稽的历史大致横跨二十年的教学、建设与榜单参与。

• The name comes from the city itself, written Ta'if in English and Taif in the university's own domain, with the campus site recorded in the Al Hawiyah district on the northern side of the city.校名取自城市本身，英文写作 Ta'if，校方域名中则作 Taif；校址记载于城市北侧的哈维亚（Al Hawiyah）片区。

• From its foundation the institution was structured as a multi-faculty university rather than a single-speciality college, because the units it absorbed already spanned education, science, arts and administration.该校自创建起即为多学院建制的大学而非单科学院，因为其收并的单位本就横跨教育、理学、人文与行政等领域。

• Once the original faculties were in place, the university added professional colleges in the years that followed its first intake, among them engineering, computing, medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, widening the portfolio beyond the teacher-training core.原有各院就位之后，该校在首批招生之后的年份里陆续增设专业学院，包括工程、计算机、医学、牙科与药学，使学科版图超出师范教育的底子。

• Two decades after the first intake of 2004, the count of sixteen faculties reported in the English summary remains the standard measure of the university's academic size.距 2004 年首次招生二十年后，英文简介所载的十六所学院之数仍是衡量本校学术规模的标准口径。

• One sentence of the English summary describes Taif University as one of three institutions created by TU, but the summary does not explain the relationship among the three, so no reading of it is asserted here.英文简介有一句称塔伊夫大学是「由 TU 创设的三所机构之一」，但简介未说明三者之间的关系，故此处不作任何引申。

• The summary's external pointers, the Saudi Ministry of Education home page and an article on biotechnology collaboration with Saudi Arabia, indicate the public and research networks around the university without detailing them.简介所附的两条外链——沙特教育部首页与一篇关于沙特生物技术合作的文章——提示了该校所处的公共与研究网络，但未展开细述。

• Two decades on, the university's documented chronology runs from the 1424 AH decree through the 2004 first intake to the ranking cycle described below, and that arc anchors every dated fact in this entry.二十余年后回看，该校有据可查的年表从伊斯兰历 1424 年法令、2004 年首批招生一路延伸到下文所述榜单周期，本条目全部带年份的事实均以此为轴。

• Neither the identity of the first president nor the dates of the first governing council appear in the available material, so the earliest administrative milestones are left blank rather than guessed.现有材料未载首任校长的身份，亦无首届校务委员会的日期，故最早的行政节点在此留白而不作猜测。

• No building-by-building chronology of the campus, no founding date for the medical city and no year for any single college's establishment are recorded in the sources used, so the timeline above follows only dated facts.所用来源中没有逐栋建筑的校园年表、没有医学城的落成年份、也没有任何单一学院的设立年份，故上列时间线只依有日期的事实编排。

• The university is a member of the Association of Arab Universities, a regional body, which ties its record to the wider Arab higher-education network rather than to a purely domestic frame.本校是阿拉伯大学协会（Association of Arab Universities）成员，这一区域性组织把它的履历接到更广泛的阿拉伯高教网络，而非仅限本国的框架。

• In Arabic the university is جامعة الطائف, Jami'at al-Ta'if, and the English form Taif University is the name carried in the international ranking tables and in this entry.该校阿拉伯语名为 جامعة الطائف，拉丁转写 Jami'at al-Ta'if；英文名 Taif University 是国际榜单与本条目使用的名称。

• Taken together, the dated record runs from the 2003 decree through the 2004 first academic year, the 2009 web archive and the 2016 reform era to the 2026-27 rankings, each stage treated as reported.合而观之，有日期的记录自 2003 年法令起，经 2004 年首个学年、2009 年网页存档与 2016 年改革时期，直至 2026-27 年度榜单，每一阶段均按来源所述照录。

Academics

• The university teaches through sixteen colleges, the figure given in the English summary, a structure that spans the sciences, engineering, business, education, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and the arts.该校以十六所学院开展教学，此数见于英文简介；学院结构横跨理学、工程、商科、教育、法律、医学、牙科、药学与人文学科。

• Five of the colleges are named in the summary, namely the College of Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Medicine, the College of Dentistry and the College of Pharmacy.简介点名的学院有五所，即理学院、工学院、医学院、牙科学院与药学院。

• The health-science group extends beyond medicine, dentistry and pharmacy to the College of Applied Medical Sciences and the College of Nursing, which together train the allied-health and nursing workforce of the region.健康学科群在医学、牙科与药学之外还设应用医学学院与护理学院，共同培养本地区的辅助医疗与护理人才。

• Computing is taught in the College of Computers and Information Technology, and management subjects in the College of Business Administration, which together carry the university's technology and commercial programmes.计算机类课程由计算机与信息技术学院开设，管理类课程由工商管理学院开设，二者共同承载该校的技术与商科专业。

• The College of Education carries the oldest lineage, descending from the teacher-training and education colleges that the founding decree absorbed, and it remains the unit most directly tied to the city's school system.教育学院的源流最为古老，可上溯至建校法令所收并的师范与教育学院，至今仍是与本市中小学体系联系最直接的院系。

• Beyond the main site, science-and-humanities colleges serve the outlying governorates of the Taif region, among them Ranyah, Turubah and Al-Khurma, extending the university's reach across the province.在主校区之外，文理学院还服务塔伊夫地区的边远省份（各专区），如拉尼亚、图鲁巴与胡尔马，使学校的覆盖面延展至全省。

• Undergraduate programmes are offered in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and law, the breadth listed in the summary, and graduate programmes are offered alongside them.本科专业涵盖人文、理学、工程、商科、医学、牙科、药学与法律，此即简介所列的学科广度，研究生教育也与之并行开设。

• Postgraduate study is organised under a graduate deanship, and the summary records graduate programmes without giving any count of master's or doctoral degrees or of enrolments.研究生教育由研究生院（研究生教育事务部）统筹，简介记载了研究生阶段的存在，却未给出硕士、博士学位的数量或注册人数。

• First-year students pass through a preparatory programme, a common feature of Saudi universities, covering English, mathematics and computing skills before they enter the colleges proper.新生先修读预备年课程——这是沙特各大学的通行设置——在英语、数学与计算机技能方面打底，之后方进入各学院专业学习。

• Admission follows the kingdom's central criteria, combining the secondary-school record with the standardised tests administered through the Education and Training Evaluation Commission, so entry to the colleges is examination-based.招生采用全国统一标准，将中学成绩与教育培训评估委员会（Education and Training Evaluation Commission）主持的标准化测验相结合，各学院录取以考试成绩为据。

• The academic year runs on the two-semester pattern usual in the kingdom, with a summer term available, and credit hours accumulate within each college's study plan.学年按沙特通行的两学期制运行，另设暑期学期，学分在各学院的教学计划内累计。

• Instruction is in Arabic in the humanities and in English in the health, engineering and computing programmes, the split typical of Saudi government universities with medical and technical faculties.人文类课程以阿拉伯语授课，医学、工程与计算机类专业以英语授课，这一分工是设有医学与技术院系的沙特公立大学的典型做法。

• The College of Medicine depends on clinical training, which is served through teaching hospitals in the Taif region, linking the classroom curriculum to patient care from the clinical years onward.医学院的教学以临床训练为支柱，临床阶段依托塔伊夫地区的教学医院完成，使课堂课程与病患诊疗自临床年级起衔接。

• A central library and a deanship of library affairs serve the colleges, providing print collections and subscription access to the major academic databases, although the material records no holdings figures.中央图书馆与图书馆事务部（图书馆事务处）服务各学院，提供纸本馆藏与主要学术数据库的订阅访问，唯材料未载馆藏数量。

• Scientific research is supported through a deanship of scientific research and through the graduate programmes, giving staff and postgraduate students a formal route to project funding and publication.科研工作由科研事务部（科研处）与研究生项目共同支撑，为教师与研究生提供项目资助与成果发表的正式渠道。

• The colleges not individually named in the summary cannot be listed from that source, so the map above combines the named units with the standard structure of the university.简介未逐一具名的其余学院无法据该来源列出，故上述学科版图由已具名单位与该校的标准建制合并呈现。

• Student numbers, staff numbers and the student-to-staff ratio are all absent from the material, so the scale of the teaching community cannot be stated in this entry.材料中没有学生人数、教师人数与生师比，故本条目无法给出教学群体的规模数字。

• The sixteen-college figure is the most concrete academic datum in the source, and it is used throughout the entry as the measure of the university's breadth.十六所学院是来源中最具体的学术数据，本条目通篇以它作为衡量该校学科广度的尺度。

Campus

• The recorded site is Al Hawiyah, a district of Ta'if in the Makkah Province of western Saudi Arabia, at coordinates 21.27028 north and 40.41583 east.记载的校址为哈维亚（Al Hawiyah），位于沙特阿拉伯西部麦加省塔伊夫的一处片区，坐标为北纬 21.27028、东经 40.41583。

• Ta'if stands on the western escarpment of the Sarawat range at an elevation of roughly 1,700 metres, which gives the city a markedly cooler climate than Jeddah or Mecca.塔伊夫坐落于萨拉瓦特山脉西侧崖地，海拔约 1700 米，气候较吉达与麦加明显凉爽。

• That highland setting has made Ta'if the summer retreat of the region for generations, and the city is known for its roses, grapes, pomegranates and honey as much as for its mild summers.这样的高原环境使塔伊夫世代以来都是本地区的避暑地，该城既以温和的夏日著称，也以玫瑰、葡萄、石榴与蜂蜜闻名。

• The city lies roughly a hundred kilometres southeast of Mecca, on the mountain roads that connect the holy city with the southern highlands, and the university draws many students from that surrounding region.该城位于麦加以东南约一百公里，地处连接圣城与南部高原的山区公路之上，本校相当多的学生即来自周边地区。

• The campus follows the kingdom's pattern of separate sections for men and women, so facilities, teaching and student services are duplicated across the two halves of the university.校园遵循沙特男女生分区的惯例，教学、设施与学生服务在大学的两部分建制中各自成套。

• The governorate colleges in Ranyah, Turubah and Al-Khurma function as small subordinate units of the university, bringing its degrees to students who cannot travel to the main site.拉尼亚、图鲁巴与胡尔马等专区的学院作为学校的小型下属单位运行，把学位教育送到无法前往主校区的学生身边。

• The encyclopaedic source names one location only, so the Al Hawiyah site is treated here as the main campus, with the governorate colleges counted as subordinate units rather than separate campuses.百科来源只记载一处校址，故哈维亚在此被视为主校区，各专区学院计为下属单位而非独立校区。

• The university's official website is at tu.edu.sa, the address listed in the data behind this entry and the anchor of its online admissions and information services.该校官网位于 tu.edu.sa 域名，此地址见本条目背后的数据，是学校在线招生与信息服务的枢纽。

• Ta'if is reached from Mecca through the mountain passes at Al-Hada and from Riyadh by the highland highway, while the city's airport offers a third approach for visitors and staff.从麦加经哈达（Al-Hada）山口盘山而来，从利雅得经高原公路抵达，塔伊夫的机场则为访客与教职员提供第三条通道。

• The city's role as a summer seat of government, with the royal court and its offices moving up from Riyadh in the hotter months, has long given Taif a political season that the university partly shares.该城自古有夏都之责，炎热月份王室宫廷与各机关自利雅得上移于此，这使塔伊夫长期拥有一个政治季节，大学亦部分共享其节奏。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed in the 851-900 band, the placement that governs this entry, and the band is a range rather than a single numbered position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校列第 851-900 档，本条目即据此收录；该档为区间名次而非单一名次。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 701-800 band, a stronger showing than its QS band in the same 2026-27 cycle.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校列第 701-800 档，在同一 2026-27 周期内高于其 QS 档位。

• In the 2026-27 US News Best Global Universities list it is ranked at position 497, the only single-numbered global rank among the four tables used here.在 2026-27 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校列第 497 位，是本文所用四张榜单中唯一的具名单一全球名次。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by ShanghaiRanking, it holds a place in the 401-500 band, its best banded result of the four.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位于第 401-500 档，是其四榜中最高的区间位次。

• Read together, the four tables put the university between roughly the 400th and 900th places worldwide in the 2026-27 cycle, with US News and the Shanghai ranking above the QS and Times Higher bands.四榜合看，该校在 2026-27 年度大致位于全球第 400 至 900 名之间，其中 US News 与软科的名次高于 QS 与泰晤士的档位。

• The four publishers weight research, reputation, teaching and internationalisation differently, so the spread between the 401-500 Shanghai band and the 851-900 QS band reflects method rather than contradiction, and each publisher's official table is authoritative for its own result.四家发布方对科研、声誉、教学与国际化的权重各不相同，故软科 401-500 与 QS 851-900 之间的落差反映的是方法差异而非彼此矛盾，各自名次以发布方官方榜单为准。

• No verifiable count of scholarly works or citations is recorded for the university in the material used here, so no publication or citation total is asserted anywhere in this entry.本条目所用材料未记载该校可核验的学术作品数或被引次数，故全篇不给出任何论文总量或引用总量。

• No subject-level ranking is recorded either, so the discipline-by-discipline picture that would qualify the overall bands is not reported in this entry.材料同样没有学科维度排名，故可用于细究总榜档位的分学科图景未在本条目报告。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields distinction is attached to the university in the record, and its documented distinctions remain the sixteen-college structure and the four global placements set out above.记录中没有挂靠该校的诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级人物，其有据可载的突出之处仍是十六院建制与上列四大榜单位次。

Student life

• The student body is spread across the sixteen colleges and both sections of the university, from preparatory-year entrants to postgraduate researchers, but the material gives no total enrolment and no gender split.学生分布于十六所学院与男女两部建制之中，从预备年新生到研究生研究者皆有，但材料未给总注册人数与性别比。

• Student affairs are managed through a deanship of student affairs, the standard arrangement in Saudi universities, which supervises clubs, cultural competitions, volunteering and counselling alongside the academic timetable.学生事务由学生事务部（学生处）统管，这是沙特大学的通行安排，在课表之外负责社团、文化竞赛、志愿服务与心理辅导。

• Sport is organised within each section, with teams and facilities for football, athletics and indoor games maintained at the Al Hawiyah site and at the governorate colleges.体育活动按男女生分区组织，哈维亚主校区与各专区学院均设有足球、田径与室内项目的队伍与场地。

• As at other government universities in the kingdom, study is tuition-free for Saudi students and monthly stipends are paid, an arrangement that shapes the social profile of the student body.与沙特其他公立大学一样，本国学生免缴学费并按月领取补助，这一制度塑造了学生群体的社会面貌。

• International and Arab students are recruited through the kingdom's scholarship programmes and through the university's membership of the Association of Arab Universities, giving the campus a regional presence beyond the Makkah Province.国际学生与阿拉伯国家学生通过沙特奖学金项目以及本校的阿拉伯大学协会成员身份前来就读，使校园在麦加省之外具有区域面向。

• Community engagement and field training form part of many programmes, connecting students to schools, clinics, businesses and public bodies in Ta'if and the surrounding governorates.许多专业包含社区服务与实习训练环节，把学生与塔伊夫及周边专区的学校、诊所、企业与公共机构联接起来。

• No motto, no student newspaper and no named student society appear in the available material, so the symbolic and associational side of student life is left undescribed here.现有材料中没有校训、学生报纸与具名学生社团，故学生生活的象征与结社一面在此不作描述。

• The record keeps no account of student housing, dining or transport either, so daily residential life at the university is not reconstructed in this entry.记录中也没有学生住宿、餐饮与交通的记载，故本校的日常寄宿生活未在本条目还原。

Notable people

• The English summary names no founder, no president and no alumnus of Taif University, and no individual academic is attached to the institution in the material used here.英文简介未具名该校的创办者、校长或校友，本文所用材料中亦无单独挂靠本校的学者个人。

• The founding decree belongs to the reign of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, king of Saudi Arabia from 1982 until 2005, so the monarch under whom the university was created is the first named figure in its story.建校法令颁于国王法赫德·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹在位期间（1982 至 2005 年治沙特），故该校创设时所奉的君主是其历史中的第一位具名人物。

• King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who succeeded in 2005 and reigned until 2015, gave his name to the scholarship programme that sent Saudi students abroad and widened the international opening of universities such as Taif.2005 年继位、治至 2015 年的阿卜杜拉·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王以其名命名了派遣沙特学生出国的奖学金项目，拓宽了塔伊夫这类大学的国际窗口。

• Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdulaziz governed the Makkah Province, the university's province, through the founding years until his death in 2007, his tenure covering the period in which the decree of 2003 took effect.阿卜杜勒·马吉德·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹亲王在 2007 年去世前一直治理本校所在的麦加省，任期覆盖 2003 年法令生效前后的建校岁月。

• Prince Khalid al-Faisal succeeded him as governor of the Makkah Province in 2007 and, in that office, presided over the province in which the university expanded its colleges.哈立德·费萨尔亲王于 2007 年接任麦加省省长，在其任内，本校所在的省份经历了学院扩充。

• Beyond the throne and the province, the institution's own record attaches named people to bodies rather than to individual biographies, listing membership of the Association of Arab Universities and results in the four global tables.在王座与本省之外，该校自身记录把具名人物系于团体而非个人传记，所载为阿拉伯大学协会的成员身份与四大世界榜单的成绩。

• Because founders, officers and alumni are undocumented in the material, the usual roll of notable names is left open, to be filled from the university's own archives or from first-hand sources.由于材料未记载创办者、历任主管与校友，常规的知名人物名录在此留白，待以校方档案或一手材料补录。