Academic year 2026-2027
Pioneers track
One list of 30 world universities named outright. The track is not field-gated: every specialization is open.
Pioneers track
One list of 30 world universities named outright. The track is not field-gated: every specialization is open.
- 1🇺🇸Harvard University
- 2🇺🇸Stanford University
- 3🇺🇸Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 4🇬🇧University of Cambridge
- 5🇺🇸University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
- 6🇬🇧University of Oxford
- 7🇺🇸Princeton University
- 8🇺🇸Columbia University
- 9🇺🇸California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- 10🇺🇸University of Chicago
- 11🇺🇸Yale University
- 12🇺🇸Cornell University
- 13🇬🇧UCL (University College London)
- 14🇺🇸University of Pennsylvania
- 15🇺🇸University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 16🇺🇸University of Washington
- 17🇨🇳Tsinghua University
- 18🇺🇸Johns Hopkins University
- 19🇨🇭ETH Zurich
- 20🇨🇳Peking University
- 21🇨🇦University of Toronto
- 22🇬🇧Imperial College London
- 23🇸🇬National University of Singapore (NUS)
- 24🇺🇸University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
- 25🇺🇸Carnegie Mellon University
- 26🇯🇵The University of Tokyo
- 27🇫🇷Université Paris-Saclay
- 28🇺🇸University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- 29🇨🇳Zhejiang University
- 30🇺🇸Washington University in St. Louis
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.
Pioneers track
- Any full-time offer from one of the 30 universities; no list of majors.
- Bachelor's and master's.
- No GPA requirement: the unconditional offer is the condition.
- Applications open all year.
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 usSource: 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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