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Saudi-US Educational Cooperation: From nine scholarship students in the 50th to 125,000 in 2015
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 03 - 09 - 2015

AlQa'dah 19, 1436, Sep 3, 2015, SPA -- The US-Saudi relations that were balanced established since more than eight decades over the years, have flourished in various fields, driven by matching shared visions and mutual interests between the two countries, to include in the early fifties of last century the scientific aspects emanating from the vision of late King Abdulaziz Al Saud which sought to establish wide broad international relations with the countries of the world, resulted in fruitful and constructive cooperation without prejudice to the tolerant Islamic values.
After the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has entered a new economic stage on which it depended on the country's oil revenues, it tended to give development a strong push towards progress and renaissance, concentrated in this move to promote Saudi citizen through education and upgrading his/her thought in various religious, humanitarian, educational and tutorial knowledge areas, as he/she is the true inexhaustible wealth of the homeland.
It launched this new stage with late King Abdulaziz's approval on the establishment of schools in various regions of the Kingdom, recruitment of Arab experiences to teach them and launch of foreign scholarships in Arab States in 1927, which was later developed to take advantage of the rest of the world, such as Europe and United States of America.
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