Student Guidance and Counseling Center

About us

The role of the university, as in the past, is no longer limited to indoctrinating information and acquiring knowledge. It has also given the university several obligations and demands that have exceeded its educational role to extend and include all aspects of student growth – physical, mental, emotional, social, and professional. The amazing progress in information technology and recent developments in all aspects of life have been accompanied by a breakthrough in the role of the university. Hence, there is an urgent need for student support services in universities to build the student's personality in an integrated manner. This is in contrast to what was common that these services are limited to psychological services that are provided only to students with psychological and behavioral problems, which led to neglecting the provision of these services to a large sector of students.

To remedy this shortcoming, student support services have been introduced at most world-class universities.

Thus, student guidance and counseling services at the university are no longer a kind of luxury and well-being, but rather a necessity imposed by the conditions of life facing students in many situations in the modern era, which they are forced to face. Student support aims to help them solve those problems and face those situations. The goal of all this is for the student to recognize his personality and entity and that he is a member of a group where he has rights and obligations.

Mission

Mission:
Providing integrated counseling services for students at King Saud University to graduate distinguished and competitive students in their learning, thinking as well as dealing with themselves and their community.

Vision

Vision:
The Student Guidance and Counseling Center at King Saud University should be a distinguished and pioneering center at the national level in providing, managing, and developing counseling services for students.

Objectives

Objectives:
Developing the various academic skills of students (critical and creative thinking skills, confronting different pressures, and developing students’ positive personalities) in a way that helps them excel in academic and personal domains.
Studying the causes of academic failure, and instructing students who have failed on ways to overcome the stumbling blocks in their study, and protect them from academic failure, and thus drop out of university.
Taking care of distinguished and talented students, and providing them with what might enhance their abilities and potential.
Providing psychological, social, and academic consultations for students at King Saud University.
Providing scientific consultations and statistical support for the students' research projects, whether in the bachelor's or postgraduate stages.
Detecting students' tendencies, abilities, and professional aptitudes, offering programs to guide students professionally, and developing positive attitudes towards their work in a manner that guides them professionally to appropriate work within the university or permanently in the external job market.
Exchanging academic and social experiences related to university life, through the provision of programs that make it easier for fresher students to engage in university life with ease.
Facilitating the process of cultural and scientific exchange between King Saud University students and counterpart universities.

Values

Values:
Quality of service and continuous improvement.
Fruitful cooperation and credibility.
Confidentiality and honesty.
Transparency and acceptability of criticism.