King Saud University is a public university in Riyadh, established by Royal Decree No. (17) on 12 November 1957. The university says it was the first public university established in the Kingdom and that it now has 23 colleges. Its Board of Directors page lists Dr. Ali Mohammed Masmali as Acting President.
Agriculture is taught at the College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, which says it was established in 1965 as the College of Agriculture, Saudi Arabia’s first college of agricultural sciences. It offers six bachelor’s degrees and 24 master’s and doctoral programmes, with departments of plant production, agricultural engineering, animal production, plant protection, soil science, food science and nutrition, agricultural economics, and agricultural extension and rural community. The college says it contributes to national food security.
The college runs an Agricultural Research and Experiment Station at Dirab, south of Riyadh, established in 1976 on about 220 hectares, and an educational farm north of the main campus with fruit and vegetable fields, greenhouses and an apiary.