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Entrepreneurship

4–5 years
You study
Feasibility studies
Jobs
Business owner, Start-up manager
Average for the business field · Age 25–29
8,200SAR

Average monthly pay in the business field for Saudi bachelor’s holders, GASTAT Labour Force Survey 2024 (1445–1446 AH)1; many earn less. Pay in a first job is usually lower.

Where is Entrepreneurship taught?

Taught at 3 universities: 1 government and 2 private.

Riyadh

Makkah

Eastern Province

From university pages, admission guides and the Ministry’s Study in Saudi platform2. Gender is tagged where the university publishes it per programme.

What do Entrepreneurship students learn?

How a project idea becomes a small or start-up business and how it is run.

  • Feasibility studies
  • Small business management
  • Marketing
  • Basic accounting

In Arabic: ريادة الأعمال

How many years is Entrepreneurship?

4–5 years. The length may differ between universities depending on the foundation year.

What jobs do Entrepreneurship graduates do?

Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:

  • Business owner
  • Start-up manager
  • Business consultant
  • Incubator coordinator

Your hours are flexible but often long, moving between office and customers.

  • Mixed
  • Moderate physical effort
  • Some travel

What do Entrepreneurship graduates earn?

GASTAT does not publish pay for each major; this is the average for the “Business, administration and law” field among Saudi bachelor’s holders, 2024 (1445–1446 AH)1.

Age 25–298,200 SAR
Age 35–4414,200 SAR

What is unemployment in the business field?

Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)1:

  • 20211442–1443 AH14.1%
  • 20221443–1444 AH12.4%
  • 20231444–1445 AH9.3%
  • 20241445–1446 AH8.5%

For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.

Official decisions and signals

  • Target: raise small and medium businesses’ share of the economy from 20% to 35%. in force since December 2030 (Sha'ban – Ramadan 1452 AH) (announced target)3

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References

  1. General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Labour Force Survey: Saudi bachelor’s holders in “Business, administration and law”, 2024 (1445–1446 AH).
  2. Programme pages on university websites, last checked 26 October 2026 (15 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH).
  3. Saudi Vision 2030, 25 April 2016 (18 Rajab 1437 AH).