Introduction to admission rules of Shaqra University
The Deanship of Admission and Registration determines the dates of admission, its procedures, the comparison between applicants, the announcement of the results and the notification of accepted students, as well as the mechanisms of admission tests and personal interviews, the number of seats available and the majors offered for admission based on what the department and college councils suggest.
Freshman Admission
The student must have or meet the following requirements:
- High school diploma or its equivalent from inside or outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Five years have not passed since the applicant graduated from high school or its equivalent.
- College Council tests and interviews must be passed.
- Being medically fit.
- Dismissals for academic or behavioral reasons should not occur.
- General Aptitude and Summative tests for health, engineering, and computer programs
- No one who is on the job shall be accepted except by a dispatch decision from his employer.
- Not have any health problems that hinder him from exercising his professional job.
For more information about Shaqra Admission, please visit Shaqra Admissions Guidelines
Admission Criteria for Applicants
For the health, engineering, computer, and information technology majors, all the above conditions are considered for admission fulfilling by the applicants. The Deanship of Admissions and Registration prepare a merit list of all applicants based on the following weights to the three types of scores:
1) High school certificate score (40%)
2) Aptitude test score (30%)
3) Summative assessment score (30%)
Applicants are offered admissions in a college of their preferences based on merit list subject to the availability of seats. Once seats are filled in a particular college, the admission to that particular college is closed and remaining students have to make their choices from other colleges.
International students admission information can be found here International Students Admission
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After the student's admission to the college of Engineering
In general, students applying to the College of Engineering are centrally admitted to the preparatory year by the deanship of admission and registration. The number of admitted students for each upcoming year is decided by the Shaqra University council based on the recommendations of the faculties' councils. The University Council determines the number of students who can be accepted into the College of Engineering based on the college capacity each year. The Deanship of Admission and Registration sends a list of accepted students to the College of Engineering. During the first academic year, students accepted into the College of Engineering take general courses (Preparatory Year, PY).
After completing the preparatory year, students on the Engineering track will be admitted to the College of Engineering based on two criteria: PY GPA and College Capacity. Before being admitted to any of the college's three departments, students must complete third and fourth level.
Procedures for student's admission to CE department
The number of students admitted to the Civil Engineering Department is determined by the Department Council and approved by the College Council. All students admitted to the Civil Engineering Department spend four years (eight semesters) studying various courses covering college requirements, core courses, and elective courses. To graduate in civil engineering, the student must typically complete 168 credits.
The Civil Engineering program's registration procedure is determined by the student's choice. The program selection registration form is distributed to 4th level students in order for them to select their desired college program. The student must meet the following requirements to be admitted to the Civil Engineering Program.
The registration procedures for the departments are as follows:
- The department council determines the department's student capacity each year.
- The fourth level students fill out the registration form (see appendix: Specialization selection form)
- The student’s first desire is chosen.
- If the number of students desiring to join the program exceeds the number specified for the program, the lower-rate students are moved to second desire.
- According to the decision of the College Educational Affairs Committee:
- That all students who pass the third and fourth level courses, as well as the remaining students have one, two or three courses, provided that all of the remaining three courses are not from courses (MATH 105, MATH 106, MATH 107, Phys 103, and PHYS 104). And deprived of assignment to the departments of students who have remaining three courses, all from the previous group, as well as the remaining of them more than three courses.
- Students who meet the previous conditions are allocated according to their initial desire and within the limits of the capacity specified by the department councils. In the event that the number of students desiring in one of the departments exceeds its capacity, a comparison is made between them according to their cumulative average, and the rest of the students are allocated to their second or third wish according to the number of students desiring in other departments and their cumulative rates.
- The minimum number of students in departments should be not less than 6 students, and in the event that this number of students does not apply to one of the departments as a first choose, the College Vice Dean for Educational Affairs or the Committee based on allocating students has the right to enroll students with Lower rates and those desiring the higher density sections to the less dense sections until the minimum is met in this section.