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UAEU Facts & Figures

Graduation & Retention Rates 

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Faculty Members 

Faculty members in the UAEU are holders of doctorate degrees from accredited institutions. The faculty academic titles are Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor. The total number of faculty members in the University during the Fall 2020 academic term was 657.

Instructors & Research Assistants

The University also has support-teaching staff. Instructors are Master’s Degree holders and Research Assistants hold Bachelor Degrees. The latter must have shown appropriate academic achievements during their studies as reflected in their graduation grade point average (GPA).

National Teaching Assistants

National teaching assistants are the potential future faculty members at the University. These assistants must have shown scholarly potential during their undergraduate education. The University will then sponsor their graduate education. There were 72 national teaching assistants, during the Fall 2020 academic term.

Total Academic Staff

The following table provides statistics of the faculty members and teaching support staff in the University as of academic term Fall 2020.

College	Faculty Members	Instructors	Visiting Faculty	Teaching Assistants
Business & Economics	59	17	5	13
Education	38	3	2	6
Engineering	95	15	5	14
Food and Agriculture	38	15	3	1
Humanities & Social Science	123	25	3	15
Information Technology	40	12	0	2
Law	54	4	0	5
Medicine & Health Science	109	13	2	7
Science	101	32	2	9
University College	0	98	0	0
Total	657	234	22	72

 

Students

Various audit and accreditation bodies require our student numbers to be presented in various different ways using a range of definitions. The following data are total student head counts for each College, and include students in the foundation program who have not yet progressed to their chosen degree program. Further breakdowns of numbers based on specific definitions are available on request from the Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Effectiveness.Office@uaeu.ac.ae). There were 14,387 students registered at the University during the Fall 2020 academic term. Enrolled male students represented 22%, while female students represented 78% of the entire student population. The distribution of the enrolled students across the various Colleges is presented in the following table.