2016 Undergraduate Placements

05/01/2016

This May, the KAUST Gifted Student Program concluded another successful undergraduate admissions and placement cycle. Foundation Year participants worked diligently with the KGSP advising teams over the past nine months to prepare highly-competitive applications to the United States’ top universities: These applications reflected each student’s superior academic performance both in high school and Foundation Year, strong standardized test scores, as well as intellectual curiosity and potential for future achievement.

As a result of this hard work, KGSP students received admission offers to such prestigious institutions as Brown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Wisconsin, Madison.

KGSP congratulates its entire class of 2020, all of whom who will begin as freshman this fall at an institution ranked in the Top 100 National Universities by U.S. World and News.

STUDENT PROFILE

KGSP students represent the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s future scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and thought-leaders. As both individuals and as a community, they reflect the KAUST mission of driving scientific discovery through excellence in education and cutting-edge research, and share a commitment to fostering innovation, economic development, and social prosperity throughout the Kingdom and the world.

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS

Selection to the KGSP is extremely competitive, and currently by invitation only. Successful applicants are Saudi Arabian students in their final year of high school who demonstrate impressive academic credentials within STEM fields, meaningful extra-curricular achievements, and who share the KAUST ethos of continuous discovery. Learn more here.

KGSP ADMINISTRATION

The KGSP is administered by KAUST Academy under the leadership of Dr. Sultan Al-Barakati. KAUST Academy is mandated by KAUST to support the acceleration of Saudi Arabia's knowledge-based economy by providing world class training programs in emerging technologies aligned with Vision 2030. KAUST Academy crafts these unique learning interventions by exporting the intellectual DNA acquired by KAUST for the benefit of the entire Kingdom.