Description

This study provides an evaluation of the status and history of the scholarship program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its impact on the sociocultural level as a result of sending the Saudi students abroad. The study reports an investigation into their contact with the academic, cultural and social reality which is completely different from the Saudi Arabian environment. The study aims to investigate the human resources size involving in the scholarship program. It considers the amount of the financial resources allocated for that program, arising from the effects, the shifts and reflection emerging from the labor market and the academic environment. There is also a specific focus on the involving obstacles facing the students abroad. This study is interested in identifying the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s relations and commitment with most countries that host these scholarship students.