United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has been ranked 38 globally, second in the GCC and first in the UAE, according to Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2023. UAEU jumped 37 positions from the previous year’s ranking, with improvements in research productivity and quality attributed to its achievement.
The THE Young University Rankings list the world’s best universities aged up to 50 years old. The 2023 list includes 605 universities from 78 countries, compared to 539 universities for the 2022 rankings. THE uses 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators grouped under five areas: teaching; research; citations; international outlook; and industry income, to calculation the annual rankings.
Six universities in the UAE are featured in the list, which highlights the UAE Centennial 2071 plan, in particular its Excellence in Education pillar, which outlines teaching advanced sciences and technology, space science, engineering, innovation and health sciences, while focusing on moral values and positive attitudes to enhance the professionalism of educational institutions.
