King Abdulaziz University

---
aid: kau
name: King Abdulaziz University
description: >-
  King Abdulaziz University (KAU) is a large public research university in Jeddah,
  Saudi Arabia, ranked #149 in the QS World University Rankings 2025, serving over
  100,000 students across 33+ faculties and institutes. Its public web presence runs
  on the official kau.edu.sa (.gov.sa) domain and includes a beta "Open Data" page,
  a library/Deanship of Library Affairs portal, and a King Abdulaziz Scientific
  Platform. KAU operates gated identity infrastructure (an SSO portal at sso.kau.edu.sa
  and an Oracle Access Manager federation endpoint at iam.kau.edu.sa) but, as of this
  review, publishes no openly documented, self-service developer API, API reference,
  or developer portal. There is no official KAU GitHub organization; only a student-run
  Google Developer Student Club and individual academic projects are present on GitHub.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kau/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Saudi Arabia
  - Middle East
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: kau:identity-sso
    name: KAU Single Sign-On / Identity Federation
    description: >-
      King Abdulaziz University operates an institutional single sign-on portal
      (sso.kau.edu.sa) and an Oracle Access Manager federation login endpoint
      (iam.kau.edu.sa/oamsso-bin/login-fed.pl). These provide authentication and
      SAML/federation for university applications. They are gated institutional
      identity services, not a publicly documented developer API; no public client
      registration, API reference, or self-service developer access has been confirmed.
    humanURL: https://www.kau.edu.sa/en
    tags:
      - Identity
      - SSO
      - Authentication
      - Federation
    properties:
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://iam.kau.edu.sa/oamsso-bin/login-fed.pl
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.kau.edu.sa/en
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.kau.edu.sa/page/open-data
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/king-abdulaziz-university
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/kauedu_sa
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://sso.kau.edu.sa/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/kau-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/kau-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/kau-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]