The UAE larger schooling sector has reached its highest enrolment stage in a decade, with 57,035 new college students admitted to the nation’s 66 larger schooling establishments (HEIs) for the 2024–2025 tutorial 12 months, in keeping with knowledge launched by the Ministry of Increased Training and Scientific Analysis (MoHESR).
The determine represents a 13 per cent year-on-year improve 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 complete admissions — a ten per cent improve in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
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Male college students numbered 26,281, an 18 per cent improve over 2023–2024.
MoHESR mentioned this progress displays the UAE’s rising gender stability in larger schooling and its success in creating extra inclusive tutorial pathways for younger individuals throughout disciplines.
The Ministry attributed the sharp rise in scholar consumption to an enhanced and extra versatile admission system, supported by streamlined procedures, zero-bureaucracy processes, and superior digital providers, 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 scholar aspirations and nationwide labour market wants.
Enrolment progress and tutorial high quality
Taif Mohamed Alamiri, Performing Assistant Undersecretary for the Increased 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 offer environment friendly, clear admission processes.
“Final 12 months’s regulatory replace has given HEIs extra flexibility to design academic programmes and set admission standards primarily based on college students’ skills, not simply take a look at scores. This opens new pathways for finding out specialised fields that help 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 talents 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 reaching this objective — guaranteeing that larger schooling establishments proceed to draw expertise and foster innovation throughout the UAE.
