Over 250,000 people visited the International Exhibition on Higher Education which concluded here on Friday. More than 300 universities and other academic institutions from the Kingdom and abroad participated in the exhibition organized by the Ministry of Higher Education. Dr. Sa'ed Al-Harithi, Advisor to Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Premier and Interior Minister, and Dr. Abdullah Al-Jasser, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture and Information, visited the exhibition Friday evening. Othman Al-Thabit, deputy chairman of the exhibition's organizing committee, said the show provided an opportunity for visitors to become acquainted with the projects of the Ministry of Higher Education including the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for foreign scholarships. Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the exhibition several agreements and memorandums of understanding were signed between US and Saudi universities. Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Issa, Saudi Cultural Attaché in the US, said 23,500 Saudi students are currently studying in US universities, and that it is expected that there will be more than 30,000 by the end of 2010.
