​The Foundation Year Program was established at the university based on the approval of the Minister of Higher Education and the recommendations of the University Council from their 2013-2014 academic year session. The objective of establishing the Foundation Year for the health colleges was to prepare the students with the basic knowledge required from the English language and basic sciences to enroll in the various health sciences colleges. One of the most important factors for success and excellence in global universities is preparing the new students to be able to integrate into the university learning environment through an intensive preparatory program to improve the university's outputs of qualified personnel for the job market. Based on the importance of the Preparatory Year, as proven by global and local experiences, in preparing the student for university studies to reduce the knowledge gap between the outputs of general education and what is expected of the student's performance at the university level, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University has unified the first-year studies for all health colleges in a one-year preparatory program that all accepted students for the health colleges at the university enroll in.