UAEU Facts & Figures

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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 Spring 2025 academic term was 645.

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 44 national teaching assistants, during the Spring 2025 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 Spring 2025.

College	Faculty Members	Instructors	Visiting Faculty	Teaching Assistants
Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine	29	12	5	1
Business & Economics	66	19	7	6
Education	33	5	1	3
Engineering	110	20	4	9
Humanities & Social Sciences	95	76	9	5
Information Technology	45	23	8	2
Law	39	0	0	1
Medicine & Health Sciences	124	25	2	6
Science	104	44	16	11
Total	645	224	52	44

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 17,722 students registered at the University during the Spring 2025 academic term, of these 16,240 were undergraduate students. Enrolled male students represented 29%, while female students represented 71% of the entire student population. The distribution of the enrolled students across the various Colleges is presented in the following table.

College	Male Students	Female Students	Total
Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine	93	598	691
Business & Economics	693	1470	2163
Education	116	918	1034
Engineering	1652	1998	3650
Humanities & Social Sciences	851	3068	3919
Information Technology	976	1299	2275
Law	258	497	755
Medicine & Health Sciences	245	1122	1367
Science	195	1673	1868
Total	5079	12643	17722