KFUPM LogoSAT Track / KFUPM

The numbers, by year

Crowd-sourced from past applicants. Useful as a benchmark (not a guarantee). Admission criteria may change each year.

⚠️ 2024 introduced a math score requirement. 2025 increased math weight further.

Data last updated: 2026 full cycle (Saudis + Residents + Internationals)

How to read these stats

  • • Lowest accepted SAT does not guarantee admission.
  • • Applicant category matters: Saudis, Residents (Iqama holders), and Internationals can have different patterns.
  • • Major choice matters. Low-score cases may be tied to later-choice or less competitive placements.
  • • From 2024 onward, the math acceptance test became important.
  • • Use medians, distributions, and notable cases together instead of relying on one number.

Lowest accepted SAT: 4-year trend

By applicant group

Admissions timeline for 2026

Current cycle
  • Deadline
    15 Feb 2026
  • Math test announcement
    25 Feb 2026
  • Math test*
    1 Mar 2026
  • Acceptances
    9 Mar 2026

* The math test is usually held across a 3–4 day window, so your assigned date may vary by a few days.

2026

Most recent

2026 had a single admission cycle (no Phase 1 / Phase 2 split). Numbers below are from 193 verified responses across the three applicant groups.

2026 Overview

Total responses
0
Saudis
0
Residents (Iqama holders)
0
Internationals (non-Iqama holders)
0
Lowest Saudi SAT
400
Lowest Resident SAT
400
Petroleum Engineering · 3rd choice · Egyptian
Lowest International SAT
400
Physics · China · 1st choice
Both cases sit well below the next-lowest Resident SAT (1480) : a 50+ point gap. These reflect atypical placement patterns and may not represent typical Resident admission thresholds. They’re excluded from the LOWEST RESIDENT SAT stats and from the Resident average, but included in all distribution charts and the per-major lowest-SAT chart so the underlying data stays honest.
SATMathMajorChoiceNationalityScholarship
1410Didn’t see/knowAccounting10thIndianNo
143014/15 (1 mistake)Finance1stUnknownNo

2026 Respondents by Applicant Group

Total: 193

Saudis

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Average SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400
Lowest math overall
0/15
Math (SAT ≥ 1410)
0/15
lowest reported
Math (SAT < 1410)
0/15
3 mistakes

40 of 87 Saudi students didn’t see or report their math score, so math-score stats are less reliable.

Math scores

Saudis 2026

Major choices

Accepted choice rank · Saudis

SAT score distribution

Saudis 2026

Majors

Saudis 2026 · all majors

Lowest SAT score by popular major: Saudis 2026

Majors with 3+ responses

Most accepted Saudi respondents got their 1st choice: 53 out of 87 responses.

Residents (Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Petroleum Engineering · 3rd choice · Egyptian Excluded 2 outliers (see flagged outliers above).
Average SAT
400
excludes 2 outliers (n=49)
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400
Full scholarship
0 / 0
~29%
Lowest math overall
0/15
1510 SAT · 2 mistakes · CIE · 7th choice
Math (SAT ≥ 1410)
0/15
no Residents below 1410

9 of 51 Residents didn’t see or report their math score.

Math scores

Residents 2026

Major choices

Accepted choice rank · Residents

SAT score distribution

Residents 2026

Majors

Residents 2026

Lowest SAT score by popular major: Residents 2026

Majors with 3+ responses

Most accepted Resident respondents got their 1st choice: 25 out of 51. Scholarship rate: 29%. Top nationalities: Egyptian (12), Syrian (10), Indian (7), Pakistani (7), Sudanese (5).

Internationals (non-Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Physics · China · 1st choice
Average SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400
Tajik · CS · 1st choice — only perfect score
Full scholarship
0 / 0
100%
Lowest math overall
0/15
1460 SAT · 3 mistakes · CHE · 1st choice
Math (SAT < 1410)
0/15
1 mistake · 1360 SAT
Math (SAT ≥ 1410)
0/15
lowest reported

22 of 55 Internationals didn’t see or report their math score.

Math scores

Internationals 2026

Major choices

Accepted choice rank · Internationals

SAT score distribution

Internationals 2026

Majors

Internationals 2026

Lowest SAT score by popular major: Internationals 2026

Majors with 3+ responses
Internationals · Lowest SAT by Nationality
2026 admitted: only nationalities with 3+ responses shown for the per-nationality rows below.
  • Chinese(n=4)1360
  • Indonesian(n=6)1380
  • Uzbek(n=9)1400
  • Kazakh(n=7)1470
  • Indian(n=3)1490
  • Syrian(n=5)1490
  • Pakistani(n=8)1510
Lowest overall: 1360 (Chinese)

International admission depends on nationality & other factors. Nationalities with fewer than 3 admitted respondents in our dataset aren’t shown here (smaller-sample lowest values: Saint Kitts and Nevis 1410, Sri Lankan 1450, Bangladeshi 1460, Montenegrin 1460, Turkish 1480, Nigerian 1490, Tajik 1600).

Admissions timeline for 2025

Phase 1
  • Deadline
    14 Jan 2025
  • Math test announcement
    31 Jan 2025
  • Math test*
    5 Feb 2025
  • Acceptances
    9 Mar 2025
Phase 2
  • Deadline
    25 May 2025
  • Math test announcement
    17 Jun 2025
  • Math test*
    21 Jun 2025
  • Acceptances
    9 Jul 2025

* The math test is usually held across a 3–4 day window, so your assigned date may vary by a few days.

2025

2025 Overview

Total responses
0
Saudis
0
Residents (Iqama holders)
0
Internationals (non-Iqama holders)
0
Lowest Saudi SAT
400
Lowest Resident SAT
400
Exception case
Lowest International SAT
400
Algeria

2025 Respondents by Applicant Group

Total: 129

Phase 1

Saudis

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400

Residents (Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400
Full scholarship
0 / 0

Internationals (non-Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Algeria
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400

Phase 2

Saudis

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400

Residents (Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Exception case
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400
Full scholarship
0 / 0
Resident low-SAT exception
1350 / Math / Canada / 5th choice / no full scholarship
Next-lowest resident cases were 1380 and 1410.

Internationals (non-Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400

Across both phases

Saudis

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400

Math scores

Saudis 2025

SAT score distribution

Saudis 2025

Residents (Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Exception case
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400
Full scholarship
0 / 0

Math scores

Residents 2025

Major choices

Accepted choice rank · Residents

SAT score distribution

Residents 2025

Majors

Residents 2025

Internationals (non-Iqama holders)

Count
0
Lowest SAT
400
Algeria · EE · 4th choice
Median SAT
400
Highest SAT
400

Math scores

Internationals 2025

Major choices

Accepted choice rank · Internationals

SAT score distribution

Internationals 2025

Majors

Internationals 2025

Admissions timeline for 2024

Phase 1
  • Deadline
    15 Feb 2024
  • Math test announcement
    19 Feb 2024
  • Math test*
    28 Feb 2024
  • Acceptances
    7 Mar 2024
Phase 2
  • Deadline
    26 May 2024
  • Math test announcement
    28 May 2024
  • Math test*
    1 Jun 2024
  • Acceptances
    27 Jun 2024

* The math test is usually held across a 3–4 day window, so your assigned date may vary by a few days.

2024

Non-Saudis: Phase 2

Lowest SAT
400
Lowest math
0/15
Full scholarship
400 & 0/15
Scholarship rate
0%

Non-Saudis — Phase 2

Lowest SAT
400
Lowest math
0/15
Full scholarship
0 person · 400 / 0/15

Lowest accepted SAT by major

Non-Saudis
  • CS
    400
  • EE
    400
  • SWE
    400
  • COE
    400
  • EEPH
    400

Saudis (both phases)

Lowest SAT
400
Lowest math
0/15

Average SAT

2024

Participants surveyed

2024

Updated 2024/12. Non-Saudis = iqama holders.

2023

Pre-math test era

From a survey of 42 accepted applicants. Note: 2024 admission criteria differ significantly because a math test was introduced.

Lowest Saudi
400
Lowest non-Saudi (partial)
400
Lowest non-Saudi (full)
400
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