UAE University Ranked Among Top 1.5% of World Universities
- United Arab Emirates University, UAEU, has been ranked as the nation’s best university in 2018 and stands among the top 1.5 percent of universities in the world
- The QS World University Rankings 2018 sees the UAEU in the top 400 universities, having risen 23 places since the 2017 edition of the assessment
- UAEU is placed in the 390th position on the QS World University Rankings 2018, out of approximately 26,000 universities around the world
- UAEU ranked strongest in the ‘International Faculty’ indicator, a measure for determining the appeal of a university to academic staff, where it was placed 12th globally in the QS Rankings
- The QS World University Rankings, produced by global education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, are regarded as the most widely-read study of their kind and the world’s most popular source of comparative data about universities
- UAEU is an Al Ain-based institution, established in 1976 and currently home to almost 14,000 students and more than 800 faculty
- The 2018 QS Rankings considered more than 4,000 of the world’s best universities on six key indicators, and charted their overall score against national and global averages
- Since 2014, UAEU has risen by nine percent in the study’s overall rankings, while its performance against the global average has leapt by 32 percent during the same period
- American University of Sharjah, Khalifa University, American University in Dubai, University of Sharjah and Abu Dhabi University ranked among the top 1000 world universities in 2018
