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Studying in the United Arab Emirates

universities
24
courses
296
English-taught
295
scholarships
18

StudyPath lists 24 universities in the United Arab Emirates and 296 courses between them, 295 of which are taught in English. The cheapest verified fee is about US$9,435 a year, at UGM RAK (formerly Bolton RAK). 20 of these universities publish their own accommodation prices. Every figure was read from the university's own published page and last checked on 2026-09-27.

Filter these 24 universitiesAll 296 courses, cheapest first

What the fee figure leaves out

A published fee is not what you pay

55 courses here, across 6 universities, carry a sourced note about a cost the headline figure does not include — a compulsory contribution, an income-tested scale, an annual increase that applies from year two, a rule about who qualifies. The most widely shared of them:

Khalifa University publishes undergraduate tuition as a per-credit-hour rate: AED 2,500 per credit hour for every Bachelor of Science programme, the same rate for UAE nationals and international students. Its own Fee and Payment Guidelines page puts the estimated cost of a BSc at AED 81,250 per year over a normal 4-year duration (roughly USD 22,100 a year…

“Bachelor of Science (BSc): AED 2,500 per credit hour”

Khalifa University · read from Fee and Payment Guidelines | Khalifa University. Open any course on that page to see the sentence it came from.

What it costs

Annual international tuition, converted to US dollars so the two ends compare. The published figure in its own currency is the authoritative one.

Cheapest

US$9,435a year

UGM RAK (formerly Bolton RAK)

Dearest

US$68,576a year

NYU Abu Dhabi

What it costs to live

Student housing published by the university itself or by the body that runs its halls, cheapest first. Shown in the currency and period each one publishes — not converted, because a converted rent is a worse number than the real one.

How the United Arab Emirates compares with other countries

Ranked against every other country on StudyPath. Countries charge in different currencies, so these figures are converted to US dollars and are approximate; the published figure, in its own currency, is on each university's page.

 United Arab EmiratesAmong countriesRange across countries
Lowest international tuition you would paya year, cheapest course that charges anything~US$9,400at UGM RAK (formerly Bolton RAK)55th lowest of 64 countries~US$207 (France) to ~US$27,300 (Hong Kong)
Tuition-free degrees we listpublished at zero for international studentsNone7 countries have some931 in Germany at most
Cheapest student housing a university publishesfor a year, from the lowest rate on its own site~US$1,100at UoS30th lowest of 66 countriesFree (Saudi Arabia) to ~US$12,000 (Iceland)

Converted to US dollars at the site's exchange rates of 13 Sept 2026. A fee or rent published per term, month or week is scaled to a year, and housing is counted for twelve months of holding the room. The living-cost figure is what an immigration authority requires a student visa applicant to show, taken as a year; the UK's, for example, covers at most nine months, so this overstates it. See student finance for each country's exact wording.

Student accommodation in the United Arab Emirates: every university's published rent →

Universities in the United Arab Emirates

Ranked universities first, then the rest by how many courses they publish. Unranked never means worse — it means QS has not measured it.