Project management
4–5 years- You study
- Project planning, Schedule management
- Jobs
- Project coordinator, Project 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 Project management taught?
Taught at 3 universities: 0 government and 3 private.
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 Project management students learn?
Planning projects, carrying them out, and tracking their time, cost and quality.
- Project planning
- Schedule management
- Cost management
- Risk management
In Arabic: إدارة المشاريع
How many years is Project management?
4–5 years. The length may differ between universities depending on the foundation year.
What jobs do Project management graduates do?
Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:
- Project coordinator
- Project manager
- Project planner
- Business analyst
Office work with visits to project sites; busier near deadlines.
- Sometimes outside the city
- Some travel
What do Project management 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.
What is unemployment in the business field?
Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)1:
For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.
Official decisions and signals
- Companies must now have 40% Saudi project managers; a decision raises it to 70% in the next stage. in force since February 2027 (Sha'ban – Ramadan 1448 AH) (binds firms, not individuals)3
References
- General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Labour Force Survey: Saudi bachelor’s holders in “Business, administration and law”, 2024 (1445–1446 AH).
- Programme pages on university websites, last checked 26 October 2026 (15 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH).
- Ministry of Human Resources, 13 August 2026 (30 Safar 1448 AH).