Effat University

Effat University resides on 871,037 square feet of land area, with a total building area of 1,426,508 square feet. Effat University campus includes 27 buildings. The campus buildings ensure an attractive and conducive environment for studying, working and conducting research. All faculty have individual office space (391 offices) and students have well-equipped classes (99 with a total capacity of 3,497 seats). The university also has 30 studios, 45 labs and 16 research centers, 28 student lounges and study rooms, and 22 multi-purpose and exhibition halls.  Effat University offers high-speed internet connection over its wired and wireless network infrastructure. There is access to general open computer labs around the campus for students to perform their studies in addition to research labs and centers in every college. The IT provides a cloud-based emails system to ensure reliability and availability for all its users.

The Effat Library and Cultural Museum has over 31,000 print volumes in English, Arabic, and other languages and more than 400,000 electronic resources, like eTextbooks, eReferences, and eJournal. The library also subscribes to a wide range of academic databases and tools relevant to the programs offered by Effat University, such as ProQuest and EBSCO databases, IEEE, ScienceDirect, eBook Central O'Reilly Safari Books Online, and references from Oxford Islamic Studies Online, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. All digital resources are easily available on campus and off campus.

The Management of Information and Educational Technology (MIETS) at Effat University provides a range of enterprise solutions for the domain users such as Ellucian Banner 9, Scientia scheduling solution, Blackboard Cloud-based learning management system, Oracle Human Capital Management system (Fusion), Faculty promotion solution, and Effat mobile application.

Effat University ensures a safe and attractive campus through applying high standards. The presence of security guards, fire-fighting and safety equipment in all buildings especially labs, restaurant and residence as well as the having cameras all over the campus ensure that the campus is kept. The University also maintains enough green areas, planted with trees and palm trees around the campus.  

The institution is committed to minimizing its environmental footprint impact through the implementation of the following campus sustainability initiatives: Water treatment plant to recycle 100% of wasted water from the buildings to be used for irrigation purposes; Afforestation plan to ensure that only drought-tolerant plants and trees are used around campus landscape, by planting 10-15 trees every year to contribute to the Saudi Green Initiative in the global fight against climate change; Waste disposal recycling initiative by collecting waste in three different container (paper, plastic, and waste) and send it for recycling; Energy conservation program to monitor and reduce electricity consumption through the central control of the AC temperatures, LED light sensors, water sensors, and turning off electricity after working hours in unused areas of the building.