Under the patronage of his Excellency King Khalid University President Prof. Falleh bin Rajallah Alsolami, King Khalid University represented by the Deanship of Quality and Academic Development held the 8th edition of the University Excellence Awards Ceremony. The ceremony took place in the Celebrations Center theater in Al-Qara’a city, in the presence of university vice presidents, deans, university employees, students, and students’ families.

In his speech His Excellency King Khalid University President welcomed the attendees and thanked those who worked towards achieving excellence whether students, employees or university entities. He then commended recent accredited programs and the winners of this years excellence awards and stressed the importance of aligning the awards future categories with the university’s future strategies to achieve a sustainable quality academic environment.

On his part the university Vice President of Quality and Development Prof. Marzin Alshahrani delivered a speech, in it he explained that the university accredited project includes 69 programs which represent 80% of university’s eligible programs for accreditation, 43 of which are accredited locally and internationally, while 26 programs have completed accreditation requirement and are waiting for the accreditation visits. Al Shahrani, also assured that the university is keen on sustaining its accreditation project, through implementing the Deanship of Academic Development and Quality’s partnership with the Education and Training Evaluation Commission to qualify 28 academic quality practitioners from the university employees. He also added that 18 university members obtained academic quality reviewer certificates which qualify them as experts and consultants to all university programs seeking accreditation. He concluded his speech by stressing that the Deanship of Academic Development and Quality aspires to qualify 18 programs, bringing the percentage of accredited university programs to 100% by the end of 2023.

The Dean of the Deanship of Academic Development and Quality, Dr. Salem Al-Qarni, congratulated the winning entities and individuals and explained that in the Excellence Awards 8th edition included 53 winers which were represented in, 5 entities and 49 male and female winners

It’s worth noting that the award ceremony included a brief summary on the most prominent quality standards, the excellence awards requirement and categories, and the honoring of the 8th edition of the Excellence Awards Winners.

To view this years winners names and categories (click here)