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What is the current situation of education in Saudi Arabia?
The Saudi government attaches importance to education and personnel training and implements free education. The educational system of primary school and secondary school is six years each. There are 22,800 schools in China, including 8 comprehensive universities, 78 colleges and 5 religious universities, among which Medina University in Saudi Arabia enjoys a high reputation in the Islamic world. There are 339,600 teachers and 4.8 million students, including 272,000 college students. About 7000 students go abroad to study at public expense every year. In addition to free accommodation, college students studying in China also enjoy allowances. The famous is Riyadh University.

The main comprehensive universities in Saudi Arabia are King Saud University and King Abu Aziz University.

King's University of Saudi Arabia, formerly known as Riyadh University, was founded in 1957 and expanded in 1982 to cope with the shortage of professionals in Saudi Arabia. The university has first-class hardware facilities and strong faculty. Now it has colleges of arts and sciences, science, management science, pharmacy, engineering, food and agriculture, education, medicine, applied medicine, computer science, architecture and environment, language and nursing. , with more than 24,000 students.

King Abdullah Aziz University is located in Jeddah, the largest seaport city in Saudi Arabia. 1967 started as a private university, and later 197 1 was transformed into a public university. The university now has colleges of engineering, medicine, applied medicine, pharmacy, science, earth science, marine science, meteorology and agriculture, environment and design, humanities and information science, with more than 37,000 students.