King Saud University (KSU) entered the club of the world's best 200, and Arab and Islamic first. According to the renowned Spanish international classification for universities "webometrics", King Saud ranked 197 and first in Arab and Islamic university world in July 2009, an unprecedented jump of an Arab and Islamic university ever. For Asia, KSU was the 21st, according to webometrics. In 2007, KSU occupied the 3259th place, in July 2008, the 380th, and in January 2009, the 292nd. The record achievement was attributed to the diversified development almost covering all fields of specialization, including research chairs, nano program, recruitment of renowned scientists, including Nobel laureates, technological programs, satellite labs, being twinned with international partners, business pioneering, endowments, academic reliability and quality, staff high qualification, and strategic projects for academic and health programs.
