​On Thursday 31/3/2016 and for the ninth consecutive year, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals invited distinguished high school students throughout the Kingdom along with their parents, for its "Tomorrow's Scientists" program. The program is one of KFUPM’s initiatives aims to let the students know about KFUPM’s areas of scientific specialization, systems, installations and its efforts in preparing students.​

Dr. Khaled S. Al-Sultan, KFUPM Rector, mentioned that the university attracted large numbers of outstanding students in the Kingdom last year, and some of them participated in previous programs’ meetings. He noted that there is no university in the world attracts more than 40% of the best 2% of its country outstanding students like KFUPM does, and that was considered as a double success for the University, undoubtedly, increasing its responsibility of commitment to quality and pursuit of excellence.

The university is seeking through the experience that students acquire in all its scientific, technical and skills program to achieve greater quality of its output. Dr. Al-Sultan pointed major civil and industrial sectors seek to attract KFUPM outstanding students through scholarships programs from their early years at the university.

The visit program includes a meeting with a university graduate who speaks about his academic experience and its impact on his career, and a meeting with the Dr. Saad al-Shahrani, Dean of Admission and Registration, who speaks about the university's keenness to achieve quality inputs, systems and procedures of admission. There was also a meeting with Dr. Misfer Al-Zahrani, Dean of Student Affairs, who speaks about the university colleges, programs and efforts in preparing students to achieve quality in all the educational work items and a speech by a student hosted by the university last year. The program also included a tour in the academic departments to learn about their capabilities and efforts in preparing students, and a visit to the Research Institute to identify its centers and applied research efforts.

Dr. Saad al-Shahrani stated that the idea of the program comes from the importance of the integration between the two phases of pre-university and university education and reflects the university's keenness to attract the best pre-university education outcomes. He stressed that the program has contributed a lot in improving the input of the university, as the university attracts almost half of the Kingdom outstanding students, while the other half is distributed to the rest of the local and international universities, including medical colleges and foreign scholarships programs.

Dr. Shahrani also said that the university has made a great success in previous versions of the program, as the program has contributed to attracting the best students and strengthened the position of the university, its mental image and students’ willingness to join the university.

Dr. Shahrani explained that students are selected to participate in the program based on their scores in the general aptitude test GAT, as the university chooses students achieving 90% or more in the test, considering it an objective criterion that measures their excellence and scientific and cognitive distinctiveness.

It is worth mentioning that “Tomorrows Scientists” program included other meetings in Riyadh, Jeddah, Medina, Khamis Mushayt, Qassim and other areas in the Kingdom.