Zayed University

Zayed University, "جامعة زايد" is the newest of the three government-sponsored college apprenticeship institutions in the United Arab Emirates. Achieving accreditation by the Middle States Commission on College Apprenticeship in the USA it became the aboriginal federal university in the UAE to be internationally accredited. It is called in account of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the country's aboriginal president. The University has six colleges: College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Sciences, College of advice and Media Sciences, College of Education, College of Information Technology, and University College.

History
Zayed University was accustomed in 1998 by the federal government of the United Arab Emirates. Until 2008 Zayed University was accepting alone UAE civic women, but again afterwards the aperture of Sweihan campus which is a accord amid Zayed University and the UAE Armed Forces about 200 macho acceptance were admitted.

Zayed University is currently affianced in accommodating relationships with a amount of institutions throughout the apple such as: Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Scotland, Australian Civic University, School of Business Management and Organization of the Foundation Antonio Genovesi Salerno in Italy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain and Waseda University in Japan.

Outcomes-based bookish affairs model
Zayed University has adopted an outcomes-based bookish affairs model. The programs are outcomes-based and advised with advertence to the Zayed University Acquirements Outcomes. These were advised by assassin U.S. consultants as a agency of developing the all-important outcomes to adapt acceptance for the world.

The above outcomes-based programs are housed the six bookish outcomes-based colleges. Outcomes-based majors are based on Zayed University's acquirements outcomes; they are conduct specific, yet outcomes based!

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Masdar Institute) is a alum level, research-oriented university which is focused on another energy, sustainability, and the environment. It is amid in Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Masdar Institute is an basic allotment of the non-profit ancillary of the Masdar Initiative and will be the aboriginal academy to absorb Masdar City. The Technology and Development Program[at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is accouterment bookish appraisal and admonition to Masdar Institute.

Masdar Institute was accustomed on February 25, 2007. As of September 2013, the Institute active 81 adroitness associates and had an acceptance of 417 students. The enactment of Masdar Institute is allotment of a ability about-face action for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi's administration angle analysis and apprenticeship in another activity as a antecedent for the approaching development of the emirate and accept bidding their charge through the enactment of Masdar Initiative, Masdar City and the Zayed Approaching Activity Prize.Masdar Institute accustomed 92 acceptance from 22 countries in the aboriginal year of its operation and is planning to accept a abiding accompaniment citizenry of about 800 students.[citation needed] Qualified acceptance from about the apple are offered a abounding charge scholarship, account stipend, biking reimbursement, claimed laptop, textbooks, and adaptation already accustomed to any of Masdar Institute's programs.

The President, Fred Moavenzadeh, was appointed in June 2010 and is the James Mason Crafts Professor of Systems Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.

Campus
The campus, like Masdar City, is advised by architectural close Foster + Partners and the aboriginal appearance of the activity is managed by CH2M HILL. Emphasis is placed on flexibility, use of acceptable architectural elements and avant-garde abstracts to accommodate for an optimized aggregate of accustomed lighting and cooling that abbreviate activity needs both central and outdoors.

Canadian University of Dubai

The Canadian University Dubai, bargain accepted as CUD, is a clandestine university of college apprenticeship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 2006. The Canadian University Dubai offers apprenticeship based on the Canadian curriculum, giving internationally accustomed superior and credibility. As a aperture to Canadian College Education, they action abounding altered options for acceptance adulatory to abstraction or analysis in Canada.

Programs are offered aural 6 altered schools, with some programs such as in the Academy of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology arch to approaching opportunities as advisers aural the University. Canadian University Dubai has an Office of Analysis Casework that is networked with the top engineering analysis centres in Canada. Canadian University Dubai serves acceptance from over 100 countries and offers them a Canadian-style education.

Schools
Canadian University Dubai has 5 schools aural it. While alum programs are offered separately. The schools and all of the programs offered accept both Canada and United Arab Emirates accreditation.

School of Architecture and Interior Design
The Academy of Architecture and Interior Design offers two Bachelor programs; Bachelor of Science in Interior Design, and Bachelor of Architecture. Both degrees in this Academy yield about 4–5 years, and the aboriginal two years of abstraction are the aforementioned aural the school, acceptance acceptance the adaptability of alteration amid programs should they accept above-mentioned to the admission of the third year.
School of Business Administration

The Academy of Business Administration  offers 5 programs, four of which are four year programs, categorized beneath the Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with differing specialists; Marketing, Human Resource Management, Accounting and Finance and E-Business. An accessory amount in Marketing is aswell accessible as a 2-year program.
School of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology
The Academy of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology  offers two specialist degrees; Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering, and Bachelor of Computer and Networking Engineering Technology.
School of Environment and Health Sciences
The Academy of Environment and Health Sciences offers two above degrees that alternation individuals to be proactive and able even above-mentioned to their Masters, the degrees accessible are; Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health Management and Bachelor of Science in Health Organization Management.

School of Communication and Media Studies
The Academy of Communication and Media Studies  offers studies in three altered fields, Journalism, Public relations and Advertising, for now however, three degrees, two of which are the aforementioned in agreeable but are either accomplished in English or Arabic. The Bachelor of Arts in Communication amount is accessible in the English or Arabic languages and will possibly be added in the abreast future. The third amount is a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Translation.

Canadian University Dubai Acquirements Analysis Centre
The Canadian University Dubai encourages acceptance to use the abstracts that are accessible in the Acquirements Resource Centre (LRC) for absolute learning, analysis needs or claimed improvement. Admission to the LRC, accommodation of abstracts or cyberbanking assets are accessible to all Canadian University Dubai students, adroitness and staff.

The Acquirements Resource Center is amid at the arena attic of Building A of the university campus.
The LRC houses over 10,000 book accumulating including books, journals and newspapers and a advanced ambit of cyberbanking resources; admission to over 52,000 e-journals, over 494,000 e-books, 16,000 cyberbanking videos, 2 actor cyberbanking images, admission to 1.4 actor titles of cyberbanking Theses/Dissertations, over 300,000 accesses to Company Reports and Data. These cyberbanking assets can be admission on and off campus 24/7.

LRC holds a alternation of advice articulacy to all CUD acceptance and adroitness every semester. CUD-LRC has an acceding with British Library that provides interlibrary accommodation whenever advice appropriate by the acceptance and adroitness is not accessible in the LRC.
LRC use the Library of Congress Classification. Computers and Wifi access are accessible aural the premises. There is aswell photocopying and press casework accessible in the LRC.

New York University Abu Dhabi

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD, Arabic: جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي‎‎) is a degree-granting advanced arts and analysis university, amid in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Together with New York University in New York City-limits and New York University Shanghai, the aperture campus is allotment of NYU's Global Network University. It opened in 2008 at a acting website for conferences and cultural events. The bookish affairs opened in September 2010 on the abiding campus congenital on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi.

History and background
In October 2007, New York University appear its ambition to accessible a complete annex campus in Abu Dhabi, financed by the government of the United Arab Emirates.The Abu Dhabi campus was planned by New York University, and the allotment mainly came from the UAE government.
The academy was aboriginal opened in 2008 on a acting website in city-limits Abu Dhabi, breadth it captivated assorted accessible contest such as bookish conferences, workshops, and performances.Alfred Bloom, above admiral of Swarthmore College, was appointed to advance NYU Abu Dhabi as carnality adjudicator in September 2008.NYU Abu Dhabi accustomed its aboriginal chic of 150 acceptance in September 2010.As of 2010 the academy offered advanced arts and science subjects, including engineering.
New York University confused the Abu Dhabi campus to a new website in 2014 in the Marina commune of Saadiyat Island. It was advised by Rafael Viñoly, an Uruguayan architect,[9] and congenital by Al-Futtaim Accumulation Carillion. NYU eventually affairs to accept 2,000 acceptance at the campus. The university affairs to accessible a alum academy and to accomplish the academy a centermost for research.
President Bill Clinton, the 42nd Admiral of the United States and architect of Clinton Foundation, was the keynote apostle at NYU Abu Dhabi’s countdown admission commemoration  for 140 graduates captivated on May 25, 2014.
Campus and locations

From its breadth in Greenwich Village, 19 Washington Square Arctic (19 WSN) is the aperture to NYU Abu Dhabi at Washington Square. With a gross 11,400 square-foot, 19 WSN is the bookish home for NYUAD students, faculty, and administrators who are active in New York as able-bodied as the affiliation centermost for the two campuses. Global Network Seminars hotlink acceptance in New York and Abu Dhabi for a aggregate educational experience. A classroom able with videoconference accessories is affiliated to a agnate classroom in Abu Dhabi and enables collective seminars based on barter and cooperation amid NYU acceptance on both campuses. 19 WSN has a media center, appointment rooms, classrooms, arcade space, a lounge and appointment amplitude for NYUAD Staff and Faculty.

Saadiyat Island campus
A abiding campus is on Saadiyat Island aural a planned cultural commune for the city-limits that will aswell abode branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim Museum(s). Artist Rafael Viñoly was called adept artist for the campus, designing it to amalgamate elements of NYU’s Greenwich Village ambiance and acceptable Islamic villages.The banal campus consists of advanced classrooms, library, and advice technology facilities; laboratories; bookish buildings; apprentice dormitories; adroitness and residential housing; and able-bodied and achievement facilities. The campus covers about 40 acreage and aswell offers a bulk of accessible spaces, including amphitheater and achievement halls, an art gallery, appointment center, and assorted retail offerings.

Reports accept been fabricated back the alpha of the activity of corruption of adopted architecture workers at the site, including the approximate denial of wages, alarming alive altitude and abortion of the architecture companies to pay application fees to laborers. In December 2013, The Guardian wrote, in a multi-part report, that altitude for the adopted workers at the architecture website for the campus bulk to modern-day slavery.

Academics
As a advanced arts academy and analysis university, NYU Abu Dhabi offers 22 majors  in the breadth of Arts and Humanities, Amusing Sciences, Science, and Engineering. As a prerequisite for graduation, acceptance are appropriate to yield courses from the amount curriculum, which encompasses capacity in apple literature, amusing studies, arts and accustomed science. Over their academy years, undergraduates yield three 3-week courses in January that calculation against their graduation requirement. Students' apprenticeship aswell includes a apogee activity in their chief year, a activity agnate to a chief thesis. Additionally, acceptance are encouraged to abstraction up to two semesters at New York University's Global Network sites in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague and Shanghai. The university added provides bounded abstraction trips aural the United Arab Emirates and to countries in Africa, Middle East and Western Asia.

Admissions
According to Inside Higher Ed, NYU Abu Dhabi is a part of the a lot of careful undergraduate universities in the world.

The university has a baby and assorted apprentice body, with a absolute apprentice acceptance of about 670 in 2014. The aboriginal chic (class of 2014) consisted of 148 acceptance from 40 altered countries. The chic of 2015 is fabricated up of 161 acceptance from 60 altered countries. The chic of 2016 is fabricated up of 151 acceptance from 65 altered countries. The bulk of applications to NYUAD has developed rapidly, with 15,520 individuals appointment bifold NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU New York applications and 2,470 primary NYUAD applications.

With costs from its host Emirate, Abu Dhabi, NYU Abu Dhabi is able to action banking aid on par with the top universities in the United States of America.[quantify] The university has committed to ensuring acceptance and their families yield on no debt in costs their education In adjustment to accomplish to this assumption the university practices need-blind admissions.

Faculty and Research
NYU Abu Dhabi adroitness and advisers appear from universities all over the apple to plan in its multidisciplinary labs and collaborative analysis centers.

An commodity in Nature Asia  states that NYU Abu Dhabi chemists developed attenuate films of ‘smart’ polymers that acknowledge to calefaction and light, a advance in analysis that could accommodate how activity is generated and consumed. The acute abstracts activity is led by award-winning NYU Abu Dhabi Associate Chemistry Professor Pance Naumov, a almsman of the Humboldt Analysis Award.

NYU Abu Dhabi’s Library of Arabic Abstract (LAL) offers Arabic editions and English translations of cogent works of Arabic literature, with an accent on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. In its aboriginal three years, LAL appear nine volumes — on literature, law, religion, biography, and mysticism — and added are in production. LAL won top acclaim in an commodity by Times Arcane Supplement that said, “…the abstraction and teaching of medieval Arabic anticipation and arcane adroitness will be revolutionized” by the library's work.

Akkasah Centermost for Photography at NYU Abu Dhabi collects aged photos from about the Middle East to abduction the region’s civic transformation over the endure century. In its aboriginal year, added than 10,000 photos were curated

NYU Abu Dhabi is an all-embracing accomplice in the XENON100 and XENON1T aphotic amount abstracts demography abode at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy. Scientists recorded after-effects that claiming several aphotic amount models and a longstanding affirmation of aphotic amount detection.[28] Papers account the after-effects were appear in the journals Science and Physical Review Letters. NYU Abu Dhabi Associate Professor of Physics Francesco Arneodo is a accommodating columnist and leads NYU Abu Dhabi’s XENON analysis accumulation of alum students, postdoctoral associates, and apprentice interns

Collaborating researchers, including scientists from the Centermost for Global Sea-level Change (CSLC) at NYU Abu Dhabi, appear a 2014 cardboard  in the account Nature that begin one of the a lot of acute and analytical areas of the Earth’s ice in West Antarctica is getting afflicted by sea-level changes in the arctic and close Atlantic, which has been abating for over 30 years.

American University in Dubai

The American University in Dubai (AUD) (Arabic: الجامعة الأمريكية في دبي‎‎) is a private, non-sectarian academy of college acquirements in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1995. AUD is accepted regionally as a abstracted assemblage by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. AUD serves UAE nationals and all-embracing acceptance from all over the apple and action them an American-style education.

The University has both US and UAE accreditation for all of its programs. AUD is the alone university alfresco the United States and Latin America to be anon accepted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, although it is not the alone US-accredited university in the Persian Gulf arena (others are accepted by the U.S. Middle States Commission on College Education). American University in Dubai is not affiliated with American University in Washington, D.C.

2012–2013 acceptance was about 3,000 and over 100 nationalities are represented in the apprentice body. AUD has a assorted adroitness of over 180. AUD's class is skill-directed and career-oriented.

Campus
The American University in Dubai is anchored next to Dubai Media City, Dubai Internet City, and the Palm Islands.
AUD's multi-complex ability is anchored on breadth of about 1,300,000 sq ft (120,000 m2). and encompasses three bookish buildings, a Apprentice Center, an administering building, abode halls, a cafeteria area, and an accessible air sports facilities.

Accreditation
The American University in Dubai (AUD) is accepted to admission bachelor's and master's degrees by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), one of America's seven bounded accrediting bodies. AUD charcoal the alone academy of college acquirements alfresco the US and Latin America to be accepted this accreditation by SACSCOC.[6] The American University in Dubai is clearly accountant by the Ministry of College Apprenticeship and Scientific Research of the United Arab Emirates. The Ministry has accepted all the university’s programs.
AUD is accustomed to accomplish by the State of Georgia Nonpublic Postsecondary Apprenticeship Commission (NPEC).[8] AUD's undergraduate majors in Marketing Communications and Advertising accept been accepted by the All-embracing Advertising Association (IAA) in New York.

The American University in Dubai has accustomed specialized accreditation for its business programs through the All-embracing Assembly for Collegiate Business Apprenticeship (IACBE), amid in Olathe, Kansas. The business programs in the afterward degrees are accepted by the IACBE: Bachelor of Business Administering (B.B.A.), with majors in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Marketing Communications; and the Master of Business Administering (M.B.A.), with concentrations in Finance and Marketing.

Founding and history
Following the Gulf War in 1991, a aggregation led by Elias Bou Saab from the American College visited the Persian Gulf to authorize relationships with assorted ministries of college apprenticeship as able-bodied as the region’s schools.
The abridgement of superior clandestine apprenticeship at the university level, accompanying with an acknowledgment of the American archetypal of college education, led them to conduct a achievability abstraction on the affairs of establishing an American university in the Persian Gulf. The after-effects accepted the top akin of absorption and admiration for a campus alms an American-accredited educational curriculum.

It aswell became bound credible that the Emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, would be an ideal abode to locate such an institution. Dubai was begin to be a politically stable, catholic and outward-looking belt whose about non-existent clandestine area in college apprenticeship was just alpha to draw some attention.

Elias Bou Saab confused to Dubai in 1995 in adjustment to clearly authorize the American University in Dubai, which in about-face would not accept been accessible after the charge and abutment from the alpha of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. To this day, His Highness continues his absolute abutment for college apprenticeship in accepted and to the university in particular.
The American University in Dubai opened its doors in October 1995 as a annex campus of the American College, based in Atlanta, Georgia.

AUD’s antecedent acceptance was 165 students, over bisected of which were females. By the time above Secretary of State and Treasury James Baker gave the Keynote at AUD’s aboriginal admission in 1998, acceptance had climbed to 499; and the Dubai government, as an announcement of confidence, had absitively to body a campus of 1,400,000 aboveboard anxiety for use by the university. AUD confused out of its antecedent bounds to absorb this new, spacious, absolutely able campus in January 2000. Its acceptance at that time was 687.

The year 2000 was aswell cogent because it was in that year that the university was clearly accountant by the UAE Ministry of College Apprenticeship and Scientific Research (MOHE). The clandestine area for college apprenticeship had developed appreciably back AUD’s founding, and the Ministry saw fit to authorize a bookish licensure and (subsequently) accreditation process. It was in 2000 that AUD’s better bookish administration – Business Administering – was organizationally appointed as a School. In 2001, a announcement of compassionate was active amid the American University in Dubai (AUD) and the Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta, GA to authorize a School of Engineering. Representatives from Georgia Tech, including six chief adroitness and authoritative officers, visited AUD to agree the adjustment of curricula to the requirements of the UAE.

In December 2007, and for the third time back its aperture in 1995, The American University in Dubai accustomed absolute accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), one of America's seven bounded accrediting commissions. AUD is the aboriginal and alone academy alfresco of the US and Latin America to be accepted this account by SACS. AUD is now a absolutely absolute institution.
The American University in Dubai aswell maintains an barter affairs with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Acceptance from both institutions can yield courses and accept acclaim through the barter program.