Education in Tabuk City

Education in Tabuk City is the educational process in the administrative capital of Tabuk Province, within the education system of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is overseen by the General Department for Education with the aim of providing learning opportunities for everyone, improving the quality of outcomes, increasing the effectiveness of scientific research, encouraging creativity and innovation, and fostering social responsibility, as well as enhancing the skills and abilities of education personnel.

Formal education in Tabuk Province began in 1925 in the form of schools. The first three schools were opened in Duba, al-Wajh, and Ummlujj Governorates, and were called Amiri Schools. In the Saudi era, the beginnings of formal schools in Tabuk City traced back to the 'Saudi School,' which was opened in 1947 under the guidance of the Founding King Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud. At that time, the school had forty students. The Saudi School was built from mud and stones and consisted of four rooms. The curriculum included the Holy Quran, Tawhid, Fiqh, handwriting, spelling, and arithmetic.

The total number of general education schools in Tabuk City for the three basic stages, primary, intermediate, and secondary, reached about 185 public schools for males, with approximately 54,567 students, and 224 public schools for females, with about 63,657 students. Altogether, there are 409 public schools for males and females, with a total of 128,224 students.

The number of private schools for the primary, intermediate, and secondary stages in Tabuk City is ninety-four schools, including forty-five private schools for males with 15,904 students, and thirty-nine schools for females with 5,513 students, totaling 21,417 male and female students.

Tabuk City has one public university, Tabuk University, which was founded in 2006. The university has approximately 29,407 male and female students distributed across its eighteen colleges, with 1,995 faculty members.

Tabuk City also hosts Fahad Bin Sultan University, a private university founded in 2003, in addition to a branch of al-Ghad International Colleges for Applied Medical Sciences.