Official government website of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
The university pavilion at the National Heritage and Culture Festival "Janadriyah 32" started receiving visitors to the festival since Thursday, 5/22/1439 H. Introductory brochures about the university, its colleges, departments and achievements were distributed to the visitors of the pavilion, which includes an introductory exhibition entitled "March and Achievement", in addition to a special pavilion on the palm tree and its products and benefits, in addition to a special pavilion on the palm tree and its products and benefits. The pavilion also offers exhibits that simulate the heritage and monuments of a special nature that carry the cultural heritage of the Kingdom in general and the Qassim region in particular in various fields, in addition to a package of activities, programs, and answers to visitors' inquiries.
"March and Achievement" Exhibition
The March and Achievement exhibition presents a number of qualitative contributions that showcase its journey and achievements since its establishment, a comprehensive statistic on the number of faculty members, undergraduate students, graduate students, employees, academic programs, and the number of colleges and deanships. It also presents a visual presentation containing photos and information about the university, in addition to its most important achievements that come with the generous support of the wise leadership at all levels, the international accreditations achieved by the university and a number of its colleges, as well as the national accreditations, and the agreements signed by the university with several international universities and colleges.
The origins of the university
The introductory panels that decorate the university's pavilion contain comprehensive information about the university's establishment, its colleges distributed throughout the region, and its various specializations, and introduce the university as one of the comprehensive public universities in the Kingdom, which includes dozens of scientific disciplines in various fields, Sharia, Arabic and humanities, in addition to scientific, engineering and health disciplines, as the university offers all scientific degrees after the secondary stage.
The plaques include the reasons for the establishment of the university, which was established in implementation of the national plan to expand higher education and universities, and is one of the first modern universities, after the seven universities, in terms of establishment, development and expansion, as Supreme Decree No. 7/B/22042 was issued to establish the University of Qassim in the academic year 1423/1424 AH, which then included seven colleges affiliated with the branch of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University and the branch of King Saud University in the Qassim region, but it grew and developed rapidly after that. Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University and King Saud University in Qassim, but it grew and developed rapidly after that, as it currently includes (37) colleges, with more than 4400 faculty members and 3250 employees, and the number of male and female students enrolled in it is more than (72000) students of different nationalities, in addition to 1850 students in postgraduate studies and 170 academic programs.
University partnerships and agreements in front of visitors
Through the "March and Achievement" exhibition, the university presents a package of introductory activities, the most important of which is the national academic accreditation, where the university's ranking in the Kingdom is the third, after it obtained the institutional accreditation in 2013, and the university obtained academic programmatic accreditation for several disciplines including medicine and surgery, medicine and oral and dental surgery, as well as animal production and arrangement, food science and human nutrition, veterinary medicine, public health, in addition to optics.
The university has obtained several international accreditations for several colleges, including the College of Computing, College of Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, College of Science, and Buraidah Community College.
The university also introduces visitors to the universities and research centers with which it has agreements in several fields, including Michigan State University (MSU), the University of International Economics and Trade of China, Durham University, China's Xi'an Medical University, Stanford University, China's Huazhang Agricultural University, Maastricht of the Netherlands, China's Beijing Health University, Leiden University in Australia, Herman Astro University in the United States, and SABIC.
The pavilion also showcases the research chairs established by the university, including the Palm and Dates Research Chair, the Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen Chair for Islamic Studies, the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Rashed Chair for Serving the Prophetic Biography, and the Sheikh Saleh Al-Saawi Chair for Positive Development and Achievement in Society, in addition to introducing the scientific societies that exist at the university, including the Saudi Scientific Society for Contemporary Intellectual Studies, Saudi Scientific Society for Internet, Saudi Medical Society, Saudi Scientific Society for Investment and Finance, Saudi Dental Education Society, Saudi Dental Education Society, and Saudi Society for
Palm Pavilion
The Palm Pavilion, organized by the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, contains 8 sections, including: Classification, geography and care of the palm tree, agricultural practices, how to prevent diseases and pests that affect it, as well as the health of the palm tree, in addition to the corner of the secondary and transformational industries of the palm tree, which shows the extent of its utilization and what is based on it from transformational industries and by-products with good and diversified economic returns.
This integrated pavilion on the palm tree because of its social status and cultural symbolism, which made it an economic tributary that is highly relied upon in light of the Kingdom's directions in Vision 2030, which enhances non-oil revenues. Participants in the pavilion explain the palm tree and what it contains and offers through simplified scientific facts to reach community members and those interested in palm trees.
The University and Palm Corner provides a review of what Qassim University offers to this blessed tree in terms of interest, studies, literature, research and holding international and local meetings to promote this vital sector, in addition to a special corner to receive visitors and interested parties, hold side discussions and answer their inquiries.
Familiarizing visitors with date types
The Palm Pavilion introduces visitors to more than thirty types of dates produced by the Qassim region and other regions, especially the most popular types, because they have a social status and a cultural symbol that has recently become an economic tributary on which many rely.
Participants in the corner also provide a thorough explanation of the date palm and what it contains and offers through simplified scientific facts to reach community members and those interested in enhancing this aspect, in addition to the corner of the classification and geography of the date palm, which displays the most important types of natural ripe dates in the Kingdom in general and Qassim in particular, which are well cultivated and produced, and what they are famous for, such as Sukari, Saqi, Hashishi and Khalas Al Qassim, and also displays several types from outside the region, such as Majdoul types and city ajwa, among others.
The Qassim region has more than seventy varieties of dates, in addition to more than six million date palm trees.
Veterinary clinic to supervise the camel field
The College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine is also participating with a fully equipped mobile clinical veterinary clinic in the camel races accompanying the festival, as it has done every year for more than 15 editions of the festival, with a specialized team of veterinary clinics affiliated with the Department of Veterinary Medicine, where the mobile clinic directly supervises the races during their start.
The mobile clinic also conducts a clinical examination before announcing the winners of the races to ensure that the requirements for each race, such as age groups and others, have been met.
The veterinary clinic seeks to provide the best services to camel owners in the field of examination and prevention of diseases, and the best treatment methods for injuries to camels participating in camel races. The mobile clinic also provides many services in various locations surrounding the racing areas, and receives cases that require examination, treatment and motor injuries, and medium to small operations provided free of charge for cases that require surgical operations.
The university's participation in such national celebrations is part of its objectives to serve the community to benefit it and enhance its cultural gains and rich heritage, to strengthen the social partnership that the university continues to carry on its shoulders and seeks to excel in it, to introduce the university's scientific products, colleges, specializations, research and agreements it implements, in addition to providing awareness and educational programs and events for the community.
