How many training centres are in Saudi Arabia?
Training centres, language institutes and e-learning providers.
10.2K
active registrations list training centres & institutes activities — 0.7% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
10,190 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list training centres & institutes activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.7% of all classified registrations, the 56th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
2,462 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +18.7% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (4,830), Jeddah (1,491) and Dammam (523) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: training centres make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
70% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 10,190
- 0.7% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 2,462
- +18.7% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 70%
- 7,135 of 10,190
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where training centres are registered
Column height: training centres by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh4,8301.6×
- Jeddah1,4911.3×
- Dammam5231.2×
- Makkah5071.0×
- Madinah4391.1×
- Khobar3541.6×
- Buraydah1590.6×
- Taif1390.6×
- Hail1010.6×
- Tabuk970.6×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Training centres & institutes: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Training centers2,203Activity code 854954
- E-learning and online training1,614Activity code 854955
- Training institutes1,574Activity code 854952
- Language and conversation institutes711Activity code 854910
- Academic advising services687Activity code 854993
- Drone training661Activity code 854998
- Private health training centers391Activity code 854956
- Space training services377Activity code 854985
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC6,83967.1%
- Sole proprietorship3,00229.5%
- JSC2022%
- SJSC770.8%
- Foreign branch460.5%
- General partnership150.1%
- GCC branch70.1%
- Limited partnership2<0.1%
Common questions
How many training centres are there in Saudi Arabia?
10,190 active commercial registrations list training centres & institutes activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most training centres?
Riyadh, with 4,830 — 47.4% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 1,491.
Is the number of training centres growing?
2,462 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +18.7% on 2024, in line with the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in training centres & institutes in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in training centres & institutes?
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