Believing in the role scientific research plays in driving progress across all fields, whether educational, economic, service or military, King Saud University, represented by the Deanship of Scientific Research, established research centers in all of its colleges. These centers support and encourage research activity among the colleges' faculty and graduate students, both by backing priority research initiatives that contribute to the development of these fields and by providing the facilities and services that create a creative and innovative research environment.

The Center aspires to become the leading house of expertise among educational research centers at the local, Arab and regional levels. It recognizes that this goal will be achieved, God willing, through its vision and mission and through its partnership with the College's faculty members, graduate students, and entities related to the Center's field.

Since its establishment, the Center has supported numerous research projects and scholarly studies in educational and psychological disciplines for faculty members within and outside the University. It has also carried out a number of studies commissioned by government and private entities inside and outside the Kingdom.