The Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University is the project that gets Prince Turki most excited. As a chairman of the Taleem Educational Company, he contributed heavily to its establish- ment in September 2006. With an intake of some 700 students, the university specialises in IT, Business and Engineering. It has a capacity of 5,500 students – 3,000 male and 2,500 female students – and is run along American lines; that is to say, it utilises the credit hour system as a measure of course
weight, an intensive bridging programme to prepare entering students for university study, a common core academic curri- culum that forms a common basis for all degree programmes and individual degree majors that provide the academic specialisation and degree awarded.