The academic guidance services are regarded as an urgent need to achieve the objectives of university education which aim to stimulate the diverse talents of students to grow academically, psychological, socially, and behaviourally in an integral manner. The academic guidance is regarded as a core and necessary activity in higher education institutions, and the good relationship resulting from the constant interaction between female students and their supervisors confirms the confidence of female students in the ability of their supervisors, a matter which leads them to benefit from the university environment and be loyal to their educational institutions as well as making reconciliation between the objectives of university education and the needs of the students. The University depends on the experiences of the faculty members to guide students in matters such as selection of academic specialization and providing students with suggestions and advices to improve their education and to help them in the selection of subjects to be registered and inform them of changes related to the academic requirements and regulations. They are as follows
-A student may present an excuse 5 weeks at least before the beginning of the final tests.
-A student is entitled to present an excuse request during the period of study in the University for two successive or three non-successive semesters.
-The semester in which the student presented the excuse is calculated in her years of study from the date of the student's acceptance in the university.
-Procedures for Presentation of an excuse:
1-To complete the excuse form and to attach the guardian's consent (a copy of a family I.D card for married women) and an official seal.
2-To complete the signatures from the (Central Library / Building 7) + bursaries + University housing + (Deputy Dean / Building 15)
3-To deliver the form to the Documentation and Graduate Affairs at the Deanship of Admission and Registration of Students (Building 4)
-The student presents a request for postponement of study when she is aware of her inability to attend the next semester or semesters for health or social reasons before the end of the first week of the study, provided that the duration of the postponement should not exceed two successive semesters or three non-consecutive semesters.
-The postponement period is not counted as part of the necessary time for completion of the graduation requirements
-Postponement procedures:
1-To complete the postponement application form available with the college coordinator.
2-To attach a guardian's approval and the justifications for the postponement.
3-To sign the form, if approved by the Deputy Dean, and to give it to the student to hand it over to the Deanship of Admission and Registration.
Transfer from a college to another within the university:
1) The student may be transferred from a college to another within the University in accordance with the regulations approved by the University Board after the approval of the deputy deans of the two colleges
2) All subjects which were previously studied including the semester degrees and the grade point averages throughout the study at the University are recorded in the academic record of the transferred student from one college to another
Transfer from one discipline to another within the College:
1) After the approval of the deputy head of the department +the approval of the Deputy Dean of the College, a student may be transferred from one discipline to another one within the College in accordance with guidelines set out by the College Board.
2) All subjects which were previously studied including the semester degrees and the grade point averages throughout the study at the University are recorded in the academic record of the student transferred from one discipline to another
Transfer procedures:
1) To ensure compliance with the transfer requirements
2) To fill the transfer form inside her college.
3) To bring the form to the Coordinator of the college and to wait for the announcement of results (on the college website / the university newsletter / the announcements board)
Procedures of subject equivalence:
1) The student is requested to bring the academic record and a description of the courses she studied and the study plan.
2) The courses and their descriptions are to be submitted to the College Board, taking into account that every equivalency is to be submitted to the College which teaches the course.
3) To advise the Deanship of Admission and Registration that the student has an equivalence request in the college in order to delete registration of the courses submitted for equivalence.
Visiting Student from outside the university:
She is the student who presents a request to study courses in the university.
1) It should be made sure that the student has a letter addressed from the Dean of Admission and Registration to allow her to take some courses " these courses to be mentioned in the letter".
2) The Department shall select the divisions for the mentioned courses in contradiction of no contradiction and shall send the student with a registration form signed by the Department to the Deanship of Admission and Registration.
3) The student is registered through the Deanship of Admission and Registration "These powers exist with them only ".
4) Then the name of the student shall appear in the attendance sheets and she will be treated as a regular student in the university in terms of the deprivation calculation and the alike, except that she does not receive bursary from King Saud University.
The visiting student from King Saud University to another university (King Faisal University / King Abdul Aziz University)
1) The student has to bring a description of courses she wants to study in the other university
2) These courses are presented to the college (the College Board) for conformation with the courses and hours in our university and then to submit the transaction to the Dean of Admissions and Registration to address the Dean of Admissions and Registration Department in the other university..
3) The results of the student will be submitted, after their return from the college to the Admissions and Registration for calculation of the hours of the courses studied by the student.