UAE Publishes 100 Universities Whose Graduates Qualify for Abu Dhabi Golden Visa

• The UAE released a list of 100 universities whose graduates are eligible to apply for the Abu Dhabi Golden Visa under the University Graduates category
• The universities were ranked by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research as among the top 100 in the world
• The list includes institutions from the US, UK, Asia, Europe, and beyond, covering some of the most prestigious universities globally

The United Arab Emirates has released a list of 100 universities whose graduates are eligible to apply for the Abu Dhabi Golden Visa under the University Graduates category.

According to the UAE, applicants must hold a degree from a university the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has ranked among the world's top 100 to qualify under this pathway.

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Below are all 100 universities whose graduates can apply:

1. Brown University
2. California Institute of Technology
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. City University of Hong Kong
5. Columbia University
6. Cornell University
7. Delft University of Technology
8. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
9. Fudan University
10. Georgia Institute of Technology
11. Harvard University
12. Imperial College London
13. Institut Polytechnique de Paris
14. Johns Hopkins University
15. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
16. King's College London
17. Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
18. Korea University
19. Kyoto University
20. Lomonosov Moscow State University
21. London School of Economics and Political Science
22. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
23. Lund University
24. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
25. McGill University
26. Monash University
27. Nanyang Technological University
28. National Taiwan University
29. National University of Singapore
30. New York University
31. Northwestern University
32. Osaka University
33. Peking University
34. Pennsylvania State University
35. Pohang University of Science and Technology
36. Princeton University
37. PSL Research University
38. Rice University
39. Royal Institute of Technology
40. Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
41. Seoul National University
42. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
43. Sorbonne University (merged from Paris IV & UPMC)
44. Stanford University
45. Sungkyunkwan University
46. Technical University of Denmark
47. The Australian National University
48. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
49. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
50. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
51. The University of Auckland
52. The University of Manchester
53. The University of Melbourne
54. The University of New South Wales
55. The University of Queensland
56. The University of Sheffield
57. The University of Sydney
58. The University of Tokyo
59. The University of Warwick
60. The University of Western Australia
61. Tohoku University
62. Tokyo Institute of Technology
63. The University of Warwick
64. Tsinghua University
65. Universidad de Buenos Aires
66. Universiti Malaya
67. University College London
68. University of Amsterdam
69. University of Birmingham
70. University of Bristol
71. University of British Columbia
72. University of California, Berkeley
73. University of California, Los Angeles
74. University of California, San Diego
75. University of Cambridge
76. University of Chicago
77. University of Copenhagen
78. University of Edinburgh
79. University of Glasgow
80. University of Hong Kong
81. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
82. University of Leeds
83. Durham University
84. University of Washington
85. University of Michigan
86. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
87. University of Oxford
88. University of Pennsylvania
89. University of Science and Technology of China
90. University of Southampton
91. University of St Andrews
92. University of Texas at Austin
93. University of Toronto
94. University of Washington
95. University of Wisconsin-Madison
96. University of Zurich
97. Yale University
98. Yonsei University
99. Zhejiang University
100. Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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Source: Legit.ng