Immersion Programs

Internationalization and the GCC region

The UAE and the GCC region is well-positioned as a serious player in terms of international business. Many foreign companies are looking to the region for strategic alliances and cooperation, and mergers and acquisitions. This creates a need to understand the GCC region and the UAE from a business perspective.

The UAEU is ranked Number Two in the Arab World, while the College of Business and Economics (CBE) is accredited by the AACSB. The CBE is therefore well placed to provide GCC and UAE Immersion / Study Tour programs to foreign institutions, universities or companies. Our vast experience ensures that you will be provided with the best in program design and content. Our programs have an interesting combination of study and discovery. Participants will experience, first-hand, the business climate, action and the melting pot of changes that are occurring in the UAE and the GCC region.

One of the distinctive characteristics of our GCC Immersion / Study Tour programs is its geographic emphasis, covering the various nations, economies, and social systems of the GCC region.

GCC Immersion / Study Tour Programs

All GCC and UAE Immersion / Study Tour programs are customized to meet company or institutional goals. These programs provide unique opportunities to explore new horizons and broaden participants perspectives. The programs creatively enhance and enrich knowledge while promoting personal growth and cross-cultural understanding.

Our programs include visits to companies that operate in the UAE and GCC region through branch and joint ventures. Participants have the opportunity to meet with executives from a wide range of businesses including European, local and US joint ventures and subsidiaries. In each country, experts in cross-cultural communication address the group and provide an overview of the current economic situation. Participants will be exposed to applied academic knowledge, unless otherwise arranged.

Participants also establish valuable contacts and experience first-hand, the people, cultures and contemporary issues unique to countries in the GCC region. Our Business seminars deepen the participants understanding as they immerse fully in an exhilarating learning environment. As the program progresses, participants synthesize the information obtained and by the time the program concludes, they are able to conceptualise a model for successfully working in foreign cultures. Such a model can be applied not only to the GCC region but to other parts of the world as well.

On their return, participants further research their topics of interest and integrate into their own curriculum the learnings they have gained from their in-country experience. They also disseminate their learning to the company they work for and community they live in.