Saudi universities prepare to enroll 236,000 new students

(MENAFN) Saudi Arabia's Higher Education Minister stated that the Kingdom's universities will enroll more than 236,000 students who passed out of the secondary schools this year, Arab News reported.

Approximately 88 percent of the 267,122 secondary graduates schools would be able to join for higher education in the new academic year, the minister said in his statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

The minister affirmed that the government has been striving to improve the educational level in the Kingdom and that is why the it sends more and more students to foreign universities on scholarships and supports institutions of higher education in the private sector.