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Index / Education
   United Arab Emirates / Education /
Universities
United Arab Emirates presently has 11 universities, of which only the United Arab Emirates University and Zayed University are public. UAE figures correspond to a university density of 1:430,000 inhabitants, placing UAE as no. 6 of 22 in the MENA region.
Webometrics does not rank UAE universities very high. The highest on their list is United Arab Emirates University as no. 1646 in the world. 4 more institutions make it to the Top 6000 list: Higher Colleges of Technology is ranked no. 2801; University of Sharjah no. 3342; American University of Sharjah no. 4378; and Zayed University no. 5140. In this respect, UAE is with 46% of its universities on this list, ranked 6 of 22 in MENA.
The multi-campus Higher Colleges of Technology is not included in LookLex university list, if it was UAE has 12 universities.
Several universities have satellite campuses in the UAE, among these, in Dubai: Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom); University of Wollongong (Australia); Michigan State University (USA); Rochester Institute of Technology (USA). In Abu Dhabi: Sorbonne (France); In Ras al-Khaimah: Tufts University (USA). One satellite campus is closed, that of George Mason University (USA).
Al-Ain
United Arab Emirates University. Est. 1976
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi University. Est. 2003
Zayed University, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Est. 1998
Al Hosn University. Est. unknown
Dubai
Alghurair University. Est. 1999
American University in Dubai. Est. 1995
Ajman
Ajman University of Science and Technology. Est. 1988
Gulf Medical University. Est. 1998
Sharjah
American University of Sharjah. Est. 1997
University of Sharjah. Est. 1997
Ras al-Khaimah
Ittihad University. Est. 1999
Projected
Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University. Est. 2009
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