Deputies Director of King Saud University emphasized that the acceptance of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the honorary doctorate awarded by the University Council shoulders a great responsibility on the University to permanently remain in the lead and to achieve the required global excellence. In statements to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), The Deputy Director of King Saud University, Dr. Abdulaziz bin Salem Al-Ruwais said that the Kingdom witnessed the largest budget for education and technology in addition to what it witnessed of the quantitative and qualitative leap in its universities, noting that the number of universities jumped from the 8 universities to 22 governmental universities covering the entire regions of the Kingdom. He said "For the qualitative improvement, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques ordered to allocate large amounts of budget surplus for higher education, technical education and public education and another amount for the national researches in the areas of technology for the prosperity of the Kingdom". He added "To enable the Saudi youth to benefit from the opportunities of higher education, he has launched the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques project of the scholarship then he crowned this qualitative leap by laying the cornerstone and of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology". --More
