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Research & Development track

Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics on the Research & Development track: 160 ranked universities exactly as published in the official guide, with country flags and 42 majors in the field.

Research & Development track

Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

العلوم الطبيعية والرياضيات والإحصاء

Majors in this field · 42 majors

  • Microbiology
  • General biology
  • Arthropods and parasites
  • Molecular and cell biology
  • Botany
  • Genetics
  • Immunology
  • Mycology
  • Zoology
  • Ornithology
  • Biochemistry
  • Toxicology
  • Pharmacology
  • Biotechnology
  • Virology
  • Environment Protection
  • Chemistry
  • Industrial chemistry
  • Organic chemistry
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Physical chemistry
  • Polymer chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Science and management of water resources
  • Geographical information systems
  • Geophysics
  • Geology
  • Geomatics
  • Meteorology
  • Physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Condensed state physics
  • Chemical physics
  • Optics physics
  • Astronomy
  • Nanoscience and technology
  • Medical physics
  • Statistics
  • Medical statistics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Actuarial Science
  • Quantitive Methods

University list · 160 universities

  • 1🇺🇸Harvard University
  • 2🇺🇸Stanford University
  • 3🇬🇧University of Oxford
  • 4🇺🇸Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • 5🇬🇧The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • 6🇺🇸Yale University
  • 7🇺🇸University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
  • 8🇺🇸Princeton University
  • 9🇺🇸University of Chicago
  • 10🇺🇸Columbia University
  • 11🇬🇧University of Cambridge
  • 12🇺🇸University of Pennsylvania
  • 13🇺🇸New York University (NYU)
  • 14🇺🇸University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
  • 15🇺🇸University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • 16🇬🇧UCL
  • 17🇨🇦University of Toronto
  • 18🇨🇦University of British Columbia
  • 19🇺🇸Cornell University
  • 20🇳🇱University of Amsterdam
  • 21🇨🇦Northwestern University
  • 22🇸🇬National University of Singapore
  • 23🇺🇸Duke University
  • 24🇺🇸University of Texas at Austin
  • 25🇦🇺Australian National University
  • 26🇨🇭ETH Zurich
  • 27🇬🇧University of Manchester
  • 28🇺🇸University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • 29🇨🇳Tsinghua University
  • 30🇬🇧King's College London
  • 31🇺🇸University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
  • 32🇨🇳Peking University
  • 33🇺🇸Johns Hopkins University
  • 34🇬🇧The University of Warwick
  • 35🇺🇸University of Washington
  • 36🇺🇸University of Southern California
  • 37🇨🇦McGill University
  • 38🇭🇰The University of Hong Kong
  • 39🇬🇧The University of Edinburgh
  • 40🇺🇸The Ohio State University
  • 41🇦🇺University of Melbourne
  • 42🇦🇺The University of Sydney
  • 43🇳🇱Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • 44🇺🇸University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • 45🇺🇸University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • 46🇺🇸Pennsylvania State University
  • 47🇩🇪Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München
  • 48🇺🇸Michigan State University
  • 49🇦🇺Monash University
  • 50🇨🇭University of Zurich
  • 51🇺🇸University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 52🇺🇸Arizona State University
  • 53🇺🇸Boston University
  • 54🇺🇸Georgetown University
  • 55🇦🇺The University of Queensland
  • 56🇩🇪Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 57🇺🇸Carnegie Mellon University
  • 58🇸🇬Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
  • 59🇫🇷Sciences Po
  • 60🇭🇰The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
  • 61🇬🇧University of Leeds
  • 62🇦🇺The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
  • 63🇩🇪Universität Mannheim
  • 64🇺🇸Brown University
  • 65🇺🇸University of Maryland, College Park
  • 66🇺🇸Indiana University Bloomington
  • 67🇳🇱University of Groningen
  • 68🇯🇵The University of Tokyo
  • 69🇨🇦Université de Montréal
  • 70🇪🇸Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • 71🇬🇧The University of Sheffield
  • 72🇺🇸Texas A&M University
  • 73🇩🇪Freie Universitaet Berlin
  • 74🇬🇧Durham University
  • 75🇮🇹Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
  • 76🇬🇧University of Glasgow
  • 77🇭🇰The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • 78🇳🇱Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • 79🇳🇱Leiden University
  • 80🇨🇳Zhejiang University
  • 81🇺🇸Purdue University
  • 82🇺🇸University of California, Davis
  • 83🇺🇸George Washington University
  • 84🇭🇰City University of Hong Kong
  • 85🇪🇸Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
  • 86🇨🇳Fudan University
  • 87🇬🇧University of Bristol
  • 88🇬🇧University of Sussex
  • 89🇨🇳Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 90🇬🇧University of Birmingham
  • 91🇬🇧University of Nottingham
  • 92🇰🇷Seoul National University
  • 93🇬🇧The University of Exeter
  • 94🇺🇸University of Florida
  • 95🇪🇸Universitat de Barcelona
  • 96🇫🇷Université PSL
  • 97🇳🇱Wageningen University & Research
  • 98🇬🇧Cardiff University
  • 99🇺🇸Washington University in St. Louis
  • 100🇭🇰The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 101🇬🇧University of Southampton
  • 102🇺🇸University of California, Irvine
  • 103🇨🇦University of Alberta
  • 104🇨🇦Western University
  • 105🇺🇸University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
  • 106🇨🇳Nanjing University
  • 107🇬🇧Newcastle University
  • 108🇺🇸Vanderbilt University
  • 109🇨🇭University of Lausanne
  • 110🇬🇧Queen Mary University of London
  • 111🇺🇸Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 112🇨🇭University of Geneva
  • 113🇨🇳Wuhan University
  • 114🇺🇸Emory University
  • 115🇳🇱Delft University of Technology
  • 116🇺🇸University of Pittsburgh
  • 117🇰🇷Yonsei University
  • 118🇦🇺The University of Western Australia
  • 119🇯🇵Kyoto University
  • 120🇨🇦University of Waterloo
  • 121🇺🇸University of Rochester
  • 122🇺🇸University of Colorado Boulder
  • 123🇦🇺Macquarie University
  • 124🇨🇭University of Bern
  • 125🇦🇺The University of Adelaide
  • 126🇬🇧University of Liverpool
  • 127🇫🇷Université Paris-Saclay
  • 128🇳🇱Radboud University
  • 129🇺🇸Rice University
  • 130🇨🇦McMaster University
  • 131🇩🇪Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • 132🇨🇦University of Calgary
  • 133🇰🇷Korea University
  • 134🇮🇹Sapienza University of Rome
  • 135🇩🇪Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
  • 136🇩🇪Albert-Ludwigs- Universitaet Freiburg
  • 137🇩🇪University of Göttingen
  • 138🇰🇷KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
  • 139🇯🇵Osaka University
  • 140🇨🇳Tongji University
  • 141🇨🇳Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • 142🇩🇪Sorbonne University
  • 143🇩🇪Technical University of Munich
  • 144🇬🇧Imperial College London
  • 145🇩🇪Universität Hamburg
  • 146🇩🇪Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg
  • 147🇺🇸California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  • 148🇰🇷Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
  • 149🇯🇵Tohoku University
  • 150🇫🇷Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  • 151🇨🇳University of Science and Technology of China
  • 152🇯🇵Nagoya University
  • 153🇯🇵Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
  • 154🇩🇪KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • 155🇩🇪RWTH Aachen University
  • 156🇨🇳Harbin Institute of Technology
  • 157🇫🇷Université Paris Cité
  • 158🇨🇭University of Basel
  • 159🇨🇭EPFL
  • 160🇩🇪Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Same field on the Emdad track

Eligibility

Before you pick from the lists: do you meet the conditions?

The lists say where you can study. The conditions say whether you can. These are the key published conditions per track as we verified them in September 2026; Safeer's terms at the time of applying are the reference.

Research & Development track

  • For PhDs and research pathways.
  • The university on the research field's list; the lists run longer than Emdad's.
  • Degree and supervisor requirements per Safeer's terms for the level.
  • Application window: January to June.

Common to all tracks

  • A final, academically unconditional offer. An offer conditional on language only is accepted in non-English-speaking countries, not in the UK, US, Australia or Canada.
  • No expected-graduation letters: the certificate must be issued when you apply.
  • If you start studying before the scholarship decision is issued, you bear the costs incurred before it.
  • A foundation year is accepted when the offer is academically unconditional and leads to a listed programme, including pathway providers.
  • Bachelor's: high-school average of 85% or above with IELTS 4.5; preparatory year: 90% with IELTS 5.5.

Last verified: September 2026 · Source: the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program terms on Safeer, and the Ministry's Excellence-track pages. Application windows as applied on Safeer this year.

Not sure they apply to you? Ask us

Source: the official guide to ordering university lists by field, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program, academic year 2026-2027. Always confirm against the latest version on the Safeer platform before applying.

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