Heriot-Watt University Dubai

Heriot-Watt University Dubai is the Dubai campus of Heriot-Watt University, the Edinburgh university founded in 1821. The Dubai campus was established in 2005, when it became the first campus of an international university to open in Dubai, and it has grown into the largest international university campus in the United Arab Emirates, with nearly 5,000 students from 115 nationalities. The campus delivers the same British degrees as Heriot-Watt in the UK, in subjects including engineering, computer science, business, design, psychology and the built environment, with the option of inter-campus transfer to Edinburgh or to the university’s Malaysia campus. In early 2025 all of its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes received Initial Programme Accreditation from the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Heriot-Watt’s Dubai campus is known for its industry links, its Bloomberg Trading Room, its Global Incubator and its focus on employability in the Gulf. The campus received a five-star rating from Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority for three consecutive years, in 2019, 2020 and 2021.