Why the UAE Wants You: The Golden
Visa for Top Graduates Explained
The UAE’s Golden Visa is quickly
becoming one of the most attractive residency options for talented people
around the world. It offers a 10-year stay, doesn’t require a local sponsor,
and lets visa holders bring their families too. Plus, it gives professionals
the freedom to grow their careers in a highly connected and modern country.
In April 2022, the UAE made the
Golden Visa even more appealing by expanding who can apply. Now, if you’ve
graduated from one of the top 100 universities in the world-- whether that’s in
Boston, Beijing, Bangalore, or Berlin--you may be eligible. This update is part
of the country’s big plan to move beyond oil and build a knowledge-driven
economy.
This vision, known as “Centennial
2071,” focuses on science, tech, innovation, and research as the foundation for
the country’s future. So, it's not just global graduates who are welcome-- top-performing
students from UAE schools and outstanding local university graduates can also
apply.
Eligibility is mostly based on
merit. The key things they look at are your academic results, when you
graduated, and how your university ranks internationally (mainly using the QS
World University Rankings). These rankings are based on teaching quality,
research output, and how employable graduates are.
Experts say this shift shows the
UAE is moving away from the old system, where people needed a local sponsor,
and towards a more open, skills-first system. The new rules also let Golden
Visa holders bring their families, which encourages long-term living and career
development in the UAE.
Check out Top 100 universities
eligible for UAE Golden Visa
1.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2.
University of Oxford
3.
Stanford University
4.
University of Cambridge
5.
Harvard University
6.
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
7.
Imperial College London
8.
University of London
9.
Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH
Zurich)
10.
University of Chicago
11.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
12.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
13.
University of Pennsylvania
14.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
15.
Yale University
16.
University of Edinburgh
17.
Tsinghua University
18.
Peking University
19.
Columbia University
20.
Princeton University
21.
Cornell University
22.
University of Hong Kong
23.
University of Michigan
24.
University of Tokyo
25.
Johns Hopkins University
26.
University of Toronto
27.
Australian National University
28.
McGill University
29.
University of Manchester
30.
Northwestern University
31.
Fudan University
32.
University of California, Berkeley
33.
Kyoto University
34.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
35.
King’s College London
36.
Seoul National University
37.
University of Melbourne
38.
University of Sydney
39.
Chinese University of Hong Kong
40.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
41.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST)
42.
New York University
43.
University of New South Wales
44.
PSL Research University (Paris Sciences et Lettres)
45.
Zhejiang University
46.
University of British Columbia
47.
University of Queensland
48.
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
49.
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
50.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
51.
Technische Universität München (TUM)
52.
Duke University
53.
Carnegie Mellon University
54.
City University of Hong Kong
55.
University of Amsterdam
56.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
57.
Delft University of Technology
58.
Monash University
59.
Institut Polytechnique de Paris
60.
Brown University
61.
University of Warwick
62.
University of Bristol
63.
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
64.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
65.
Universiti Malaya
66.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
67.
University of Texas at Austin
68.
National Taiwan University
69.
Universidad de Buenos Aires
70.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
71.
University of Zurich
72.
Sorbonne University (formerly Paris IV and UPMC)
73.
University of Glasgow
74.
Korea University
75.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
76.
Osaka University
77.
University of Southampton
78.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
79.
University of Copenhagen
80.
Yonsei University
81.
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
82.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
83.
Tohoku University
84.
Durham University
85.
University of Washington
86.
University of Auckland
87.
Lund University
88.
Georgia Institute of Technology
89.
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
90.
University of Birmingham
91.
University of St Andrews
92.
University of Leeds
93.
University of Western Australia
94.
Rice University
95.
University of Sheffield
96.
Pennsylvania State University
97.
Sungkyunkwan University
98.
University of Science and Technology of China
99.
Technical University of Denmark
100. University of North Carolina
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