King Abdullah lays the foundation stone for new women’s university

The new university will have a 700-bed hospital and 15 colleges, including those for medicine, dentistry, nursing, naturopathy and pharmacology. It will also feature an administrative area, staff housing and public facilities including mosques, schools, and a transportation system. The project is expected to be completed by 2010.

In remarks at the launch, King Abdullah announced that the university would be named the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University for Girls. The institution had been known as the Riyadh Women’s University while in the planning stages.