Al Baha University is a recently established university , located up in Al-Baha city, in the middle of Saraat mountains, which extend adjacent to the west coast of Arabian Peninsula. Having been established recently, all Al Baha University majors and departments were started from scratch, allowing modern curricula and up-to-date teaching technologies to be employed in the university programs. The university has a wide variety of majors offered by 23 academic departments in four colleges. The university started with a number of colleges that were supervised by their counterparts at Umm Al-Qura University. The university now undergoes a full-fledged development plan to build the main campus. Plans for more academic programs are in consideration contingent to the progress of construction.