As many as 33,940 students have applied for Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program of Foreign Scholarship in its 8th stage from the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan until last Friday.
The Undersecretary of Ministry of Higher Education for Scholarship Affairs, Dr. Nasser bin Mohammed Al-Fawzan pointed out that initial screening showed that the number of students who met the conditions amounted to 16,210, or about 48% of applications.