2. MASTER’S PROGRAM DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Admissions:
Admission to the M.S. program requires the satisfactory completion of an
undergraduate B.S. degree in a relevant or related area, such as Engineering,
Mathematics or the Physical, Chemical and Biological Sciences.
Requirements:
Thirty (30) credit hours must be completed in graduate-level courses and directed
research projects. These courses should be 200-level or above, and they must be
approved by the program advisor.
1. At least twenty-four (24) credit hours must be earned in technical courses.
2. At least nine (9) credit hours must be earned from a major track.
3. At least three (3) credit hours must be earned in mathematics courses.
4. At most six (6) credit hours may be earned in Winter Enhancement (WE) courses.
5. At most six (6) credit hours may be earned in directed research projects.
The course grade must be B- or better for the credit hours received in any course to be
counted toward any master’s requirement.
Cognates:
In order to ensure sufficient breadth of study, master’s and doctoral students must
satisfy a cognate requirement of at last one graduate course for a minimum of 3 hours
of credit in areas outside one’s own field.
Course Transfer and Equivalency:
Graduate credit hours taken from any KAUST program may be applied to other KAUST
graduate programs.
Graduate courses taken from another university or KAUST program that are equivalent
in level and content to the designated courses in a major track maybe counted toward
meeting the major track requirement if their equivalence is confirmed by the graduate
chair.

Give us time, and we'll soon find a way

Zubebe: Arab News newspaper reported extensively on this new high tech-meta university opened on september 23 this year 2009 in Saudi Arsbia. It was a really big deal if 13 heads of states across the world attended. Here is the roll call; phillipines, kuwait, yemen, turkey,jordan,bangladesh, malaysia,mauritius,syria , sudan,somalia and nigeria. The university is built for advanced research in applied maths, bio science, chemistry, polymers, etc. A total of 500 students were enrolled across the globe who were all sponsored by KSA. My great concern here there is no nigerian among them. Why? Are we bereft of qualified students in those fields with all our population? Or are the products of our univerities to blame?
moreover the admissions were not based on religion-which makes nigeria to be qualified twice. Why why and why?