The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is endowed with vast resources of petroleum and minerals that require the expertise and services of chemical engineers to harness these resources to the rapid development and progress of the country. In order to meet this challenge, the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering was established in the year 1981-82 at King Abdulaziz University. The department offers a BS degree in Chemical Engineering (ChE) after the successful completion of 155 credit units over the five years span. Since its inception, more than 600 students are graduated as qualified chemical engineers who are serving various organizations in different parts of the country. In 2002, the program was evaluated for the first time by EAC of ABET based on the Engineering Conventional criteria and was recognized to be “substantially equivalent” to ABET accredited programs. In 2008, the program had an EAC of ABET general review visit that resulted in the accreditation of the program. In 2015, the program had an EAC of ABET general review visit that resulted again in the accreditation of the program. The number of graduates in the Chemical Engineering Department in the past 5 years is as follows:‎ 2024-25: 20, ‎2023-24: 37‎, 2022-23: 33‎, 2021-22: 50‎,‎ 2020-21: 38‎. As of 2026, the current number of enrolled students in the Chemical Engineering Program is 110. The Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular, and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.