The BBC's Sylvia Smith checks in on development at the King Abdullah Economic City north of Jeddah, one of four "megacity" projects envisioned by King Abdullah to be developed in the coming years.

The Brookings Institution's superb report, The Geography of Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education: Origins and Destinations, mines data from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to create an extraordinarily informative overview of the foreign student population in the U.S.

Renderings of the forthcoming Global Business School in Jeddah have been published online, depicting a massive building that will serve as a modern campus for the educational institution in Saudi Arabia's second largest city.

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published a new rule allowing F1 students the opportunity to stay in the country longer by getting training on the job at some companies for a period of 36 months.

Founded in 2005 and one of the late King Abdullah's legacy programs, the scholarship fund has covered full tuition, medical insurance, a monthly stipend for living expenses, and an annual round-trip airfare for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.

KAUST, with a deep endowment and brand new main campus in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, announced two new partnerships this week, one with Dow Chemical and another with the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD).

A recent report on Saudi students in the United States by World Education News and Review found that Saudis studying in the U.S. have increased by 20% in the last year and often apply to a wider range of schools other than the elite institutions that are a typical focus of international applicants.

The 150,000 Saudi students studying overseas and 83,000 in the United States are just one part of Saudi Arabia’s higher education plans