This weekend, thousands of Saudi students and their families will converge in the Washington, D.C. area at the Gaylord National Harbour hotel for the 2015 SACM Career Fair and Graduation ceremony, a unique and impressive celebration of the accomplishments of Saudi Arabia’s future workforce.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) sends over 100,000 Saudi students abroad for higher education annually, the majority of whom study in the United States. Each year, the event organized by the The Saudi Arabian Culture Mission (SACM) grows proportionately with the swelling ranks of Saudi students here in the United States to get advanced degrees.
The SACM Career Fair begins tomorrow.
The SACM Career Fair that begins on Friday and runs through Saturday hosts hundreds of international companies looking to hire recently-graduated Saudi citizens to join their ranks.
The first event was in 2009, with each subsequent year attracting a larger number of graduates and their families.
As of 2012 there were 53,828 Saudi F-1 visa holders in the U.S. ranking Saudi Arabia 4th out of 74 countries, according to a Brookings Institution study on foreign students in the United States. China, India and South Korea are the top three countries. However, since 2012 another 30,000 Saudis have come to study in the U.S., SUSTG’s President Richard Wilson noted last year.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman approved on Thursday, May 14 the inclusion of 12,000 additional male and female Saudi students studying in the US at their own expense in the government’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP), according to reports.
The 2014 SACM Job Fair will be hosted at the Gaylord National Harbor hotel on May 24-27, 2013, at 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD 20745.
