 Other notable achievements included opening Saudi Arabia's first coed university, The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), near the coastal city of Jeddah, in 2009, and the world's largest female-only university, the Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University, in the more conservative capital of Riyadh.While there is more that could be offered to better the education system, it must be said that progress has been made, with women's participation rates tripling over the past few decades and women taking on new types of professions, from Olympic athletes to supermarket cashiers.Indeed, Saudi feminist Samar Fatany credits King Abdullah with extending women's work opportunities beyond the education and medical sectors into areas such as banking, IT, architecture, and science.