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RIYADH-  Saudi Arabia’s recently opened Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University gets world-wide attention. The world’s largest women’s university, is located on the outskirts of the Saudi capital of Riyadh and has the capacity for 55,000 students to study subjects including business and science. It also has its own teaching hospital, laboratories and libraries.  The SR20-billion will boost women’s higher education in the Kingdom, said Huda Al-Ameel, the newly appointed PNU president. “The new campus, covering eight million square meters, is considered the largest women-only university in the world,” said Al-Ameel in a statement.  Apart from administrative buildings, the new campus includes a 700-bed university hospital, 15 colleges, a central library, a conference hall, laboratories and three research centers for nanotechnology, information technology and biosciences. It also comprises staff housing units, student hostels, primary, intermediate and secondary schools an...