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.