UAE Lists 100 Universities Whose Graduates Can Qualify for Abu Dhabi Golden Visa

The United Arab Emirates has named 100 universities whose graduates may apply for an Abu Dhabi Golden Visa through its University Graduates category.

Applicants must have a degree from a university ranked among the world’s top 100 by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to qualify for this application pathway.

What is UAE Golden Visa?

A Golden Visa is a long-term, renewable residency program that lets foreigners live, work, and study in the UAE for five or 10 years.

One of the benefits is that the recipient does not need an employer or local UAE citizen to sponsor their stay.

It also means that one can stay outside the UAE for more than the usual six months without losing the visa.

Apart from the above, the recipient is allowed to sponsor a spouse, children, and domestic helpers.

Other Golden Visa categories

The report also notes that the UAE has identified eight groups for a Golden Visa under its rare specialisations and exceptional talent category.

They include doctors, scientists, inventors, cultural and arts professionals, executives, athletes, PhD holders, and specialists in priority scientific and engineering fields.

For Kenyan readers considering study or work abroad, the graduate pathway offers a potential route to apply for long-term residency in the UAE.

Being a graduate of a listed university does not, by itself, mean an application will be approved; the source describes these graduates as eligible to apply. Universities included on the list

The institutions span North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Below are all 100 universities whose graduates can apply:

1. Brown University
2. California Institute of Technology
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. City University of Hong Kong
5. Columbia University
6. Cornell University
7. Delft University of Technology
8. École Polytechnique
9. Fédérale de Lausanne
10. Fudan University
11. Georgia Institute of Technology
12. Harvard University
13. Imperial College London
14. Institut Polytechnique de Paris
15. Johns Hopkins University
16. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
17. King’s College London
18. Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
19. Korea University
20. Kyoto University
21. Lomonosov Moscow State University
22. London School of Economics and Political Science
23. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
24. Lund University
25. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
26. McGill University
27. Monash University
28. Nanyang Technological University
29. National Taiwan University
30. National University of Singapore
31. New York University
32. Northwestern University
33. Osaka University
34. Peking University
35. Pennsylvania State University
36. Pohang University of Science and Technology
37. Princeton University
38. PSL Research University
39. Rice University
40. Royal Institute of Technology
41. Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
42. Seoul National University
43. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
44. Sorbonne University (merged from Paris IV & UPMC)
45. Stanford University
46. Sungkyunkwan University
47. Technical University of Denmark
48. The Australian National University
49. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
50. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
51. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
52. The University of Auckland
53. The University of Manchester
54. The University of Melbourne
55. The University of New South Wales
56. The University of Queensland
57. The University of Sheffield
58. The University of Sydney
59. The University of Tokyo
60. The University of Warwick
61. The University of Western Australia
62. Tohoku University Tokyo Institute of Technology
63. The University of Warwick
64. Tsinghua University
65. Universidad de Buenos Aires
66. Universiti Malaya
67. University College London
68. University of Amsterdam
69. University of Birmingham
70. University of Bristol
71. University of British Columbia
72. University of California, Berkeley
73. University of California, Los Angeles
74. University of California, San Diego
75. University of Cambridge
76. University of Chicago
77. University of Copenhagen
78. University of Edinburgh
79. University of Glasgow
80. University of Hong Kong
81. University of Illinois at
82. Urbana-Champaign
83. University of Leeds Durham
84. University University of Washington
85. University of Michigan
86. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
87. University of Oxford
88. University of Pennsylvania
89. University of Science and Technology of China
90. University of Southampton
91. University of St Andrews
92. University of Texas at Austin
93. University of Toronto
94. University of Washington
95. University of Wisconsin-Madison
96. University of Zurich
97. Yale University
98. Yonsei University
99. Zhejiang University
100. Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology