Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
Campus services and facilities
The campus was constructed in a record time of two years, supported by 75,000 construction workers and the latest building machinery and methodologies. It is 8 million square meters in size,[8] with a maximum capacity of 60,000 students. The campus has 600 high-tech, smart buildings, large-capacity student dormitories, various models of faculty residence units, and three spacious, state-of-the-art recreation centers. In addition, it has pre-schools, primary schools, intermediate and secondary schools. It also has an elegant central library, research centers, a university hospital, student support centers, sport facilities that students can use,[9] a convention center and an automated metro system.
Sustainable Design
- Water recycling plant
- Solar thermal plant
- 4000 sq. meters of Solar Panels, which provide 16% of heating and 18% of air-conditioning needs
38 of the university’s buildings, totaling a million square meters, have been submitted for a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating and the library has applied for the second highest LEED "Gold" rating.
Central Library
The library holds over 2 million books in both Arabic and English with a maximum capacity of 5 million, in addition to numerous journal subscriptions, government publications, dissertations, databases, and manuscripts.[3]
Research Centers
Social Research and Women's Studies
- Social Science Research.
- Women's Studies Research
- Human and Social Development Research
- Natural Sciences Research Center
Aljazeera Chair
Academic Societies Established
- Saudi Society for Child Care.
- Arabic Language Society.
Student Support Centers
- Clubs and Student Councils
- Meeting Rooms and Offices
- Media and screening rooms
- Restaurants and Cafes
- Banquet Halls
- Bookstore
- Pharmacy
- Supermarket
- Bank
Convention center
- 2 large halls
- 2,700 seats (largest in the country)
- 1,350 seats
- 13 conference and meeting rooms.
Transportation
Due to the physical size of the campus, an efficient means of transporting students needed to be developed. To this end, a 11.5 km automated guideway transit system, the Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Automated People Mover (PNU-APM), was constructed. The network, built to light metro standards, opened in 2012 and has 4 lines and 14 stations.[10] It has 22 two car AnsaldoBreda Driverless Metro trains, each having a maximum capacity of up to 110 passengers and a maximum speed of 60 km/h.[11] The driverless technology used in the trains is the same as that of the Copenhagen Metro.[8][11]
International partnerships
- University of Auckland in New Zealand
- University of Southern Denmark in Scandinavia
- Valencia College in the United States
- Rouen University in France
- Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands
- Monash University in Australia
- Dublin City University in Ireland
Memberships in Regional and International Associations
- International Association of Universities
- Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World
- Association of Arab Universities
- The Society of Arab Universities
- The Scientific Society of Arab Nursing Faculties
- Colleges of Computing and Information Society
- Association of Social Services
- American Council on Education
- Association of Colleges of Fine Arts
- Scientific Society for Arab Faculties f Medicine
- Society of Colleges of Science
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