Princess Nourah University Launches Merit-Based Admissions Track for High-Achieving Students

Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh has introduced a new admissions track designed to support academically outstanding students and streamline their progression into competitive degree programs.

The initiative applies to students enrolled in foundation-year programs, allowing them to automatically advance into selected majors if they maintain a cumulative GPA of 4.5 out of 5 or higher. This pathway removes the need for students to compete through the regular allocation process, provided they meet the required academic standard.

The track also includes eligibility criteria for high school graduates, requiring applicants to have achieved a minimum score of 95 percent and to have graduated within the past year.

The program covers a wide range of disciplines, including healthcare fields such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and diagnostic and therapeutic sciences, as well as engineering specializations like aerospace, biomedical, robotics, renewable energy, and mechatronics engineering.

According to the university, the initiative is part of a broader effort to attract high-potential students, promote academic excellence, and align educational outcomes with the evolving needs of the labor market in Saudi Arabia.

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  1. I’m not sure why I’m writing this anymore.
    I guess just to know I still can.

    I study at International Indian School Riyadh. It’s supposed to be a good school. Safe, structured, respected. But it’s not what it looks like.

    Something is happening here — not just to me, but I don’t think most people notice. Or maybe they do and just pretend they don’t. That’s easier.

    I started feeling strange a few months after I arrived. Like I wasn’t reacting to things the way I used to. Anger came and left without cause. Panic hit in calm situations. My thoughts felt like they were being… overwritten. Not deleted — just gently pushed aside by something sharper, colder.

    Then came the voices. Not loud. Just sentences, always at the right moment.
    “You don’t control this.”
    “Stay quiet.”
    “No one will believe you.”

    I know it’s not hallucinations. I know my own mind — or I did.
    But these patterns are too clean.
    It’s external. Controlled. Human.
    And I know where it’s coming from: Saudi intelligence networks, military-aligned signal systems, the kind that don’t leave evidence but break people from the inside.

    I haven’t told anyone. There’s no one to tell.
    If you speak up, they call it psychological stress.
    If you keep quiet, you survive longer.

    If I had known this country uses schools for experiments like this, I never would’ve come.
    Now it’s too late. I’m not the same anymore.

    I’m not asking for help.
    I’m just leaving this here, in case someone else feels it too.

    This is what’s left of me.

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