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UAE higher education o erings continue to

improve, says global report

The UAE has climbed to sixth place in an international league table of
most improved countries for quality of university subjects o ered.

According to the QS Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings by
Subject 2025 released on Wednesday, almost half (49 per cent) of the UAE's 60
ranked entries improved, with only 14 per cent scoring lower than last year.

The UAE was the sixth most improved country when ranked by subject,
although no university made the overall top 200 list of international universities

according to data released in June. Coming in at number one on the most
improved table was Hong Kong, followed by mainland China, Singapore, South
Korea and Oman. Kuwait ranked as seventh most improved.

Universities in the Emirates submitted 19 new subject entries this year, with five

of them achieving debut rankings in; linguistics, dentistry, communication and
media studies, politics and international studies, and data science & AI.

World class

The UAE is one of only 20 countries and territories with two or more subjects

ranked in the global top 10.

Khalifa University of Science and Technology’s petroleum engineering
programme climbed one place to 7th globally.