Overview

The International Students Office is a specialized department dedicated to supporting students coming from various countries around the world by providing a comprehensive set of services that include recruitment, support, follow-up, and care. It focuses on facilitating visa and residency requirements, providing suitable housing, ensuring student welfare, organizing cultural and social activities, and improving the quality of services offered to them, thereby contributing to cultural integration and positive interaction between local and international students, and enabling them to have an outstanding academic experience.The International Students Office plays a crucial role in enhancing the university's academic reputation by attracting outstanding student talents, serving as a model of institutional excellence, digital transformation, and service quality at the university level, based on university values, high professional standards, and cultural openness.In conclusion, the International Students Office welcomes all students who have chosen to join Taibah University, emphasizing its commitment to ensuring that every international student has a success story that begins here and extends its impact worldwide.

Objectives

  • Enhance the efficiency of recruitment and admission procedures through full digital transformation. 
  • Achieve a minimum of 90% satisfaction among international students in academic and service aspects. 
  • Expand paid academic programs targeting international students in collaboration with relevant colleges. 
  • Strengthen cooperation with embassies, sponsors, and international institutions to improve the quality of student recruitment. 
  • Build a comprehensive and up-to-date database of international students and graduates to support sustainable engagement. 
  • Develop the skills of administrative staff through specialized training programs in dealing with international students. 
  • Improve infrastructure and the residential, health, and psychological environment for students to ensure a high quality of university life. 
  • Participate in international exhibitions and conferences to promote the university and its programs.

Tasks

International Student Recruitment Unit

  • Issuing educational visas for new students on the Edirss platform in Saudi Arabia.
  • Providing new international students with travel tickets to arrive in the Kingdom upon acceptance.
  • Welcoming international students at the airport in coordination with Public Relations and Transportation.
  • Providing university housing for international students free of charge during their study period at the university.
  • Conducting the necessary medical examinations for new international students to grant them residency.
  • Issuing the university ID number for the new student.

International Student Relations Unit

  • Issuing exit and re-entry visas during the summer vacationIssuing.
  •  final exit visas for graduates and those whose status has been terminated.
  • Extending student visas in case they are unable to arrive within a specified period.
  • Cancelling visas in coordination with the university's passport office.
  • Issuing travel tickets (round trip) for students during the summer vacation.
  • Issuing a one-way travel ticket upon university graduation.
  • Issuing residency permits for new students upon acceptance in coordination with the university's passport office.
  • Renewing residency permits for international students through the Muqeem program.
  • Transferring information to a new passport in coordination with the university's passport office.
  • Issuing replacements for lost residency permits or passports in coordination with the university's passport office.
  • Amending name and nationality in coordination with the university's passport office.
  • Transferring student sponsorship in coordination with the university's passport office.

Academic and Financial Follow-up Unit

  • Disbursement of a two-month bonus as a preparation allowance upon the arrival of new students.
  • Disbursement of an annual book allowance once a year.
  • Disbursement of a monthly allowance for international students.
  • Excellence bonus is granted to external scholarship students who achieve an excellent grade over two semesters.
  • Printing fee allowance for postgraduate students.
  • Disbursement of a three-month graduation allowance for book shipping.
  • Monitoring students' academic status and communicating with the academic advisor to assist those who are struggling.
  • Studying the results of international students at the end of each semester and providing necessary recommendations to the colleges regarding them.
  • Completing clearance procedures for students who withdraw or graduate from the university.

Student Care Unit

  • Organizing cultural programs for orientation events and welcoming new students to familiarize international students with the academic procedures applied at the university.
  • Conducting courses, workshops, and programs to integrate international students into the Saudi Arab social environment.
  • Organizing social trips, such as Umrah and Hajj trips.
  • Organizing the participation of international students in cultural competitions.
  • Participating in global events such as International Students' Day.