| Institution: | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
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Thuwal, Makkah Saudi Arabia |
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a private research university located in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
It was founded in 2009 and provides research and graduate training programs using English as the official language of instruction. It was announced in 2013 that KAUST had one of the fastest growing research and citation records in the world and in the 2016 Nature Index Rising Stars was ranked #19 in the world of the fastest rising universities for high quality research output.KAUST was ranked as the world’s top university in citations per faculty ranking indicator as per QS World University Rankings for 2015-2016 and 2016-2017.