Keystone search knowledge reveals the UAE, together with different MENA locations, is benefiting from shifts in world worldwide examine demand throughout 2025, with a rise of almost 90% in search curiosity in June 2025 in comparison with final yr.
Though the MENA vacation spot is anticipating development, the UAE’s rise is especially notable, drawing extremely various audiences from South Asia (particularly India and Pakistan), Southeast Asia (Singapore and Indonesia), East Asia (Hong Kong China), and Europe (France, Germany). There has additionally been a modest uptick in curiosity from US college students.
Keystone’s knowledge – which measures relative search curiosity from tens of millions of month-to-month searches on Keystone web sites – factors to topic availability and tuition charges as the 2 main elements influencing pupil choices to check within the MENA area, as India stays the UAE’s largest supply of worldwide curiosity, with the fastest-growing audiences in 2025 being India, Singapore, France, the US, and Germany.
In the end, Dubai is not only providing schooling however a launchpad for world careers, with an ecosystem that’s turning into more and more troublesome to duplicate, given the present coverage headwinds.
Suneet Singh Kochar, CEO of Fateh Schooling
“The worldwide panorama of worldwide schooling is shifting, and conventional locations just like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia (the ‘Huge 4’) are dealing with rising strain from visa constraints, immigration coverage tightening, and affordability issues. As world mobility patterns evolve, Indian and South Asian college students are actively exploring various locations that provide each high quality and pragmatism, and Dubai is rising as a frontrunner,” Suneet Singh Kochar, CEO of schooling consultancy, Fateh Schooling, instructed The PIE.
“One other development that I see, in relation to Dubai’s rising enchantment, is the uptick in curiosity for undergraduate research along with the scholars going there to pursue their masters. For Indian households, it offers the proper steadiness – world schooling inside a four-hour flight radius, cultural familiarity, and considerably larger parental entry and peace of thoughts. Security, high quality healthcare, and multicultural inclusivity additional reinforce Dubai’s enchantment for households on the lookout for a safe, supportive setting for these youthful college students.”
The Ministry of Increased Schooling and Scientific Analysis (MoHESR) has introduced that college students making use of to the upper schooling establishments primarily based within the UAE for the upcoming Fall 2025-2026 consumption should settle for or reject their gives by August 11, 2025, through its digital portal. All program acceptances and associated steps should be accomplished by this deadline to make sure easy processing.
With encouragement for college kids to recurrently monitor their purposes and promptly fulfil any further necessities set by establishments, the MoHESR has considerably simplified admissions, lowering doc necessities by 86%, chopping the appliance time and enabling registration at 59 greater schooling establishments throughout the nation.
“In the end, Dubai is not only providing schooling however a launchpad for world careers, with an ecosystem that’s turning into more and more troublesome to duplicate, given the present coverage headwinds. Right now, over 42% of Dubai’s worldwide pupil inhabitants is Indian – clear proof of the area’s rising credibility and resonance with India,” Singh Kochar added.
“Dubai’s excessive graduate employment fee is backed by a system the place universities are carefully aligned with nationwide priorities, providing packages in areas like AI, sustainability, logistics, and fintech which are immediately linked to the nation’s financial imaginative and prescient.”
Elsewhere, Singh Kochar counseled Dubai’s establishments for his or her sturdy ties to business – offering college students with entry to internships, reside tasks, and employer networks throughout their research.
