Chinese Students attracted towards UAE

A chinese student in University of Wollongong, Dubai

DUBAI : According to a report published in New York Times said that more and more Chinese students turning to UAE as a higher education hub. Studies indicates that Chinese students prefer to quit traditional higher education centres like Britain, Australia and US for UAE.

“In Dubai, one class has about 10 students,” said Mr. Li Wentao, 20, a Chinese student, who is now a computer science major at the Dubai campus of the University of Wollongong.“In China, it’s about 100 students per class, so it’s crowded and hard to learn.”

University campuses in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and elsewhere in the Emirates are trying to attract more students from China, which has become the top source of international students in the world. Competition to attract foreign students is fierce among governments that value the long-term benefit of building cultural links with the future elite, along with the immediate benefit of the tuition income that they bring.

Now, the U.A.E. is eager to attract more Chinese students. “This will be our first year of looking at China from a student recruitment perspective, we’re still in the early stages of understanding the huge potential there,” said Leigh Ann Jones-Khosla, business development director at the Dubai International Academic City. “We need to promote Dubai as a place they can easily get student visas and find jobs upon graduation.”

At N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi, there are 27 Chinese students pursuing various programmes, according to Greg Bruno, N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi’s spokesman.

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