Sulaiman Al-Rajhi University (officially abbreviated as SRC) ( ar, جامعة سليمان الراجحي) is a private, non-profit,

research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are the most important sites at which knowledge production occurs, along with "intergenerational kno ...

, comprising three graduate colleges:

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

Nursing Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health ...

and Applied Medical Sciences as well as a state-of-the-art University Hospital. The university were founded by the Sulaiman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi Charitable Foundation and is located in Al Bukayriyah,

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

."Al Rajhi to Establish University in Al-Qassim"
, ''US-Saudi Arabian Business Council'', March 15, 2009.

Aim and vision

Sulaiman Al Rajhi University aims are to produce highly trained and specialized cadres of manpower as required for development. The project of establishing the Medical, Nursing and Applied Medical Sciences Colleges with a University Hospital is envisaged to further improve the health sciences education, patient care and biomedical research to match international standards."Philosophy & Role of SRC"
, ''SRC's Philosophy to Brighter Future!''. The rationale behind establishing the university is due to a calculated estimate demand for higher education in the kingdom."The Rationale behind SRC's Establishment"
, ''Sowing the Seeds of Success in the Sun''.

Campus

The university's main campus is near the Madinah-Riyadh Highway SRC's campus is specifically located beside the highway connecting

Riyadh Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the R ...

and

Madinah Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...

and sits approximately 370 km from the capital city of

. When completed it will cover an area of 10,100 hectares.

Governance

As of January 2008, Professor Dr. Saleh Bin Abdullah Al Damegh was named the chief supervisor and founding dean of Sulaiman Al Rajhi University. In his concluding statement Sheikh Al Rajhi indicated that the general supervision of the university has been commissioned to Prof. Dr. Saleh Bin Abdullah Al Damegh, for his long academic background and wide experience in the field of medicine.

Partnerships

University of Maastricht & UMC+

In the pursuit of creating the "Islands of Excellence," Sulaiman Al Rajhi University signed a memorandum of understanding under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Khalid bin Mohammad Al Angary, the Saudi Minister of Higher Education, H.E. Ms. Maria Josephina Arnoldina, Netherlands Minister of Economic Affairs, and in the presence of Dr. Mohammed Al Ohali, the ministry's deputy for education.

KPMG

The agreement between KPMG and SRC forms the basis of an extensive and intensive effort by the University and KPMG to build world-class organizational and operational capacity of SRC. The university seeks to primarily focus on delivering medical and health science education and will include a university hospital to serve the local community as well as the doctors-to-be."SRC-KPMG Partnership"
''SRC partners with KPMG'', March 16, 2009.

Teaching

The university are primarily health and research centered and, as such, English is the medium of instruction at SRC. The medical education of SRC is based upon the medical curriculum of

Maastricht University Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; nl, Universiteit Maastricht) is a public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen Dutch universities. In 2021, 22,383 students studied at ...

therefore students enrolled at Sulaiman Al Rajhi University will be taught using the education methodology of

problem-based learning Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a define ...

(PBL). In line with Maastricht's PBL philosophy, SRC believes that the students should be personally responsible for their academic education.

Medical departments

The SRC Medical College will begin its first ever

(PBL) medical program in late September 2010, in accordance to

new academic year of 2010-2011. The medical college would comprise the following departments: * Department of Physiology * Department of Biochemistry * Department of Anatomy * Department of Pathology * Department of Microbiology & Clinical Parasitology * Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Therapeutics * Department of Forensic Medicine/Medical Jurisprudence * Department of Family & Community Medicine * Department of Internal Medicine (including Psychiatry, Dermatology, Neurology, Cardiology & Radiology) * Department of Surgery (including Orthopedics, ENT, Ophthalmology & Anesthesiology) * Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology * Department of Pediatrics * Department of Medical Laboratory Science

Additional images

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Notes

External links

Official website of Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges

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