Saudi Students in US Ecstatic over Education Benefits

When King Abdullah announced last week that additional scholarship programs were announced for Saudi Arabian students studying abroad, we immediately began making calls to see whether community colleges and non-scholarship majors were going to be included. However, it seems that the actual rules and regulations from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) in Saudi Arabia have not changed, but this is more of a “one time deal” giving ALL 7,000 students in the US as “self funded” students a scholarship.

In this oddly worded article from Arab News you can read more about the details of the scholarship increase and what it means to current students in the US:  http://bit.ly/SaudiStudentBenefits

I do hope that this means students in atypical majors will soon start seeing scholarship benefits as it still does not seem to make sense to not allow a scholarship to an A+ student heading to University of Southern California to study film making and script writing but to give a scholarship to a D student going to a low-tier university to study business.  Lets hope that MOHE will begin to see those changes can bring huge benefits to the country by allowing students to go towards a major they are more apt to succeed in!

- wassan

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