(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) University education for Saudi women in recent years has witnessed a tremendous development at the quantitative and qualitative levels, both in terms of development programs, specific initiatives or strategic plans for women since the foundation of the Kingdom by late King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud, until the era of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
The Ministry of Education has worked hard to overcome the difficulties in front of Saudi women's excellence in various stages of education, to promote their scientific and intellectual standards and emphasize their presence on the national development roadmap under the directives of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, which recently approved the creation of Princess Award Nora Abdulrahman for excellence and leadership of women in the kingdom, in order to encourage women to scientific leadership locally and abroad.
Women have accounted for a percentage of (51.8%) of the number of registered students in Saudi universities, and achieved a remarkable increase in the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for Foreign Scholarships in the disciplines which were not available to them in the past of graduate studies, while in undergraduate studies, an increase in the number of female students enrolled reached in 2013 in public universities (551,192) students, while the number of women in 2012 was (511,593) students.
Women's education was not limited to the Saudi public universities , as private universities education is contributing to providing higher education for women.
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