The gulf prefers going abroad

“Education is an experience more than just academic programme”- this is the general attitude of the student s from the Middle-east who aspire for foreign education for a better job. So students from the gulf region are still preferred going abroad than to study in a branch campus of the same foreign university in their own country.

Experts generally argue that the demand for the foreign university education in the Gulf region will be met when the branch campus of the foreign universities arrived in Gulf. But the failure of many foreign universities in Dubai is a classic example to take care of. Michigan University’s Dubai branch campus has closed its undergraduate programmes due to low enrollment of the students from the Persian Gulf. It raises questions about some of the assumptions foreign universities had about the Persian gulf market. It is said that students are skeptical about the quality of education at branch campuses. Most students want the cultural, linguistic and social experiences of attending a Western University in the West rather than studying the same University’s same course in Dubai.

Though Dubai International Academic City (DIAC) is the world’s only exclusive free zone dedicated to higher education, it is currently home for only 27 Academic Institution from 11 different countries. And after the economic slowdown, the demand for Western University campus in Dubai is not now as high as earlier. The top reason students want to study at international universities – and are willing to pay up to 30 times the cost of tuition at a Dubai graduate school to do so – is to experience life in a foreign country.

Moreover, now most of the foreign universities prefer China to Dubai. They busily opening their branch campuses in China for making a quick profit out the demand for Western Universities in China.Jason Lane, a Professor at the State University of New York at Albany who studies about International Higher Education said that the students generally make the decision to go abroad early in the college-selection process for cultural reasons and that domestic universities rarely compete against foreign universities.The environment is very important to students. Even though the quality of education and curriculum might be the same, students are missing out on the American experience.- he added.

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