AlFaisal International Academy was founded in 2001 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It has three training Centres - one for males and two for females - offering educational services to approximately 6,000 students per year. In AlFaisal, the experienced trainers also develop different educational courses that apply to the unique needs of people coming from the Public, Industry and Defense Sectors. In 2015, almost 8,000 of those people were taught ESL in-house. Today, the Academy decided to elevate its status by becoming an Approved LanguageCert Test Centre.

Since 2009 AlFaisal is the subsidiary of Arabian Education and Training Group, which has a paid-up capital of 80 million USD. The Group owns seven education and training business related companies, that include a Publishing House, and companies of private schools, Management Training, Vocational and on the Job Training, Placement, as well as the Alfaisal International Academy.