RIYADH: A total of 356 students participating in the Mawhiba Program for Elite Universities, “Tamayuz,” have been accepted at some of the top universities in the world, Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday.
Tamayuz is an integrated training program that prepares the best students to study at prestigious American universities ranked among the top 50 universities in the world.
King Abdulaziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) is a non-profit endowment organization that aims to identify and nurture talented and gifted Saudi students in scientific fields.
The foundation said that 11 students were offered places at the University of California, Berkeley, and that 211 male and female students who applied for admission to the best universities in the world had obtained 538 offers at universities including Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, the University of California, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Duke University.
96 students were accepted at the top 50 universities in the world, 174 students were accepted at the top 100 universities in the world, and 181 students were accepted at the top 200 universities in the world.
It added that the number of admissions among Tamayuz students to prestigious international universities increased this year by 178 percent compared to 2021.
