University of Hafr Al Batin Scholarships — Bachelor's Scholarship

The University of Hafr Al Batin (UHB) is a Saudi state university in Hafr Al-Batin, with branch university colleges in Khafji and Nairyah. It admits non-Saudi students on scholarship through the two routes the Ministry of Education sets for public universities.

The external route is for applicants who live outside the kingdom. On the Ministry’s Study in Saudi platform, UHB lists three bachelor’s tracks for them, all for men: the Engineering Track taught in English, and the general tracks of the College of Business Administration and the College of Arts, taught in Arabic.

The internal route is for non-Saudis already living in the kingdom on a valid residency. It reaches further into the catalogue, with diplomas, bachelor’s programs at the branch colleges and master’s degrees. The platform labels every UHB scholarship place, internal or external, as a partial scholarship.

Benefits & funding

A study place at a state university, classed on the Study in Saudi platform as a partial scholarship.
External students: the ticket for the first journey is refunded, up to what peers from the same country receive.
External students: an allowance worth two months on arrival, and a return ticket home at the end of each academic year.
External students: an allowance worth three months on graduation.
External students: a one-off award of SAR 1,000 in each academic year for strong academic results.
External students: university housing with academic, social and cultural support, health care throughout the studies, and subsidised meals.
The university handles the visa and residency paperwork for external students.
UHB publishes no benefit list for resident students; the Ministry defines a partial scholarship as a place with some of the benefits above, such as housing.
No monthly allowance figure is published.

Eligibility

Non-Saudi nationals of any country; Saudi students enter through regular admission.
Bachelor’s routes, external and internal: aged 17 to 25, with a secondary-school certificate or its equivalent.
External route: the secondary certificate must be no more than three years old at the time of applying.
External route: certificates and identity papers attested by the Saudi embassy or cultural attaché, a passed medical examination, and good conduct.
External route: the three international tracks currently listed on Study in Saudi take men only.
Internal route: a valid Saudi residency in the applicant’s own name; members of displaced tribes who hold the five-year card also apply on this route.
Master’s degrees (internal route): non-Saudi applicants must hold an official graduate scholarship, and the Ministry caps the age for master’s scholarships at 30.
No applicant may already hold a scholarship from another Saudi university, or have been academically dismissed from one.
Scholarship students must meet the same admission requirements as Saudi applicants.

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Application process

1
Pick the route: external if you live outside Saudi Arabia, internal if you hold a Saudi residency.
2
Check UHB’s program list on the Study in Saudi platform (studyinsaudi.sa), which marks each program as open to international or resident scholarship students.
3
External applicants apply online through the university’s external scholarship portal while a window is open; it accepts applications through the website only.
4
Upload clear PDF scans, each 3 MB or less, of the secondary certificate, passport and transcript.
5
After final nomination, bring the originals on arrival: attested secondary certificate and transcript, a good-conduct certificate, the home country’s approval letter, a security clearance and a medical report.
6
Resident master’s applicants apply in the graduate admission window UHB announces each semester.

Program timeline

External route
the university’s portal shows registration closed, and no date for the next window is published.
graduate admission window for the second semester of 1447 AH, open to non-Saudis who hold an official scholarship.
30 November – 11 December 2025
Next cycle
dates follow the academic year and appear on the university portal and the Study in Saudi platform.