The UAE greater schooling sector has reached its highest enrolment stage in a decade, with 57,035 new college students admitted to the nation’s 66 greater schooling establishments (HEIs) for the 2024–2025 tutorial 12 months, in keeping with information launched by the Ministry of Larger Training and Scientific Analysis (MoHESR).
The determine represents a 13 per cent year-on-year enhance in new enrolments from each UAE nationals and worldwide college students — marking a big milestone within the nation’s schooling progress and reform agenda.
Of the brand new college students, feminine enrolment reached 30,756, accounting for 54 per cent of whole admissions — a ten per cent enhance in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
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Male college students numbered 26,281, an 18 per cent enhance over 2023–2024.
MoHESR mentioned this progress displays the UAE’s rising gender stability in greater schooling and its success in creating extra inclusive tutorial pathways for younger folks throughout disciplines.
The Ministry attributed the sharp rise in pupil consumption to an enhanced and extra versatile admission system, supported by streamlined procedures, zero-bureaucracy processes, and superior digital companies, together with the Unified Registration System (URS).
These enhancements have strengthened coordination between MoHESR and HEIs, simplified enrolment procedures, and supported the 2024 replace to admission standards, permitting universities to align tutorial programmes extra intently with pupil aspirations and nationwide labour market wants.
Enrolment progress and tutorial high quality
Taif Mohamed Alamiri, Performing Assistant Undersecretary for the Larger Training and Scientific Analysis Regulation and Governance Sector at MoHESR, mentioned: “MoHESR is refining the admission system to stability rising enrolment with tutorial high quality, counting on unified digital platforms and steady suggestions to supply environment friendly, clear admission processes.
“Final 12 months’s regulatory replace has given HEIs extra flexibility to design academic programmes and set admission standards based mostly on college students’ skills, not simply take a look at scores. This opens new pathways for finding out specialised fields that assist the nationwide economic system and future job market wants.”
MoHESR reaffirmed its dedication to the ‘We the UAE 2031’ imaginative and prescient, specializing in growing a contemporary, agile schooling system that equips college students with the abilities to construct a aggressive and sustainable information economic system.
The Ministry mentioned continued funding in admissions reform, digitalisation, and high quality governance will stay central to attaining this objective — making certain that greater schooling establishments proceed to draw expertise and foster innovation throughout the UAE.
