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The newly-established Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU) combines the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MI), the Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research (KUSTER), and the Petroleum Institute (PI) into one world-class, research-intensive institution, seamlessly integrating research and education to produce world leaders and critical thinkers in applied science and engineering. Khalifa University endeavors to be a leader among research-intensive universities of the 21st century while catalyzing the growth of Abu Dhabi and the UAE's rapidly developing knowledge economy. Khalifa University is the first and only science and technology-specific research-based University in the United Arab Emirates. We offer high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs taught by a diverse collection of world-class professors, researchers, and academics. Our teaching and research facilities help prepare our graduates to contribute immediately to the UAE's growing knowledge-based economy, and our alumni hold leadership positions throughout the UAE and beyond. Why study at Khalifa University? KU was ranked as the top University in the UAE in 2016 KU is dedicated to developing its students into tomorrow's competitive engineers, scientists, innovators, problem-solvers, and leaders, in the world's most rapidly-developing and high-demand fields. KU's three modern campuses have some of the most advanced research facilities to be found in the entire region. KU's two flagship research institutes – the Masdar Institute and the Petroleum Institute – serve as interdisciplinary research units focused on long-term strategic priorities. KU's international faculty members have extensive research pedigrees and years of teaching experience in some of the world's leading universities. Students at KU benefit from one-on-one attention through small class sizes, with our student to faculty ratio of 9:1. KU is a genuinely international university – with students hailing from 53 different countries and faculty from over 40. Full undergraduate and graduate scholarships are available for both UAE National and international students. KU is home to 16 specialized research centers that respond to the local and international industry's needs. Students at KU benefit from the University's functional relationships and strategic partnerships with international higher education institutions that provide student exchange opportunities, student sponsorships, employment opportunities for students, internship programs, and joint research programs. Studying at KU means learning research with real-world applications. KU has over 50 industry and government-sponsored research contracts and has signed more than USD20 million in sponsored research contracts in the past two years. KU is located in one of the world's most dynamic international cities – Abu Dhabi – which was ranked the world's second most popular city for work, rest, and play by the Ipsos Top Cities Index in 2017, just behind New York. As a world-class, research-intensive institution, KU will: Set new standards in education, research, and scholarship that will benefit the UAE and the world. Drive Abu Dhabi and the UAE as a knowledge destination and engine for socio-economic growth through active research into its economy. Seamlessly integrate research and education to produce world leaders and critical thinkers in applied science, engineering, management, and medicine. Continuously innovate and integrate the global standard in methods of learning and discovery. Build a diverse community of service-oriented, ambitious, and talented individuals through an environment that encourages and nurtures creative inquiry, critical thinking, and human values. Empower the community with practical and social skills, business acumen, and a capability for lifetime learning that will enrich the country's workforce. KU mission KU aims to be a catalyst to the growth of Abu Dhabi and the UAE's rapidly developing knowledge economy, an education destination of choice, and a global leader among research-intensive universities of the 21st century. Khalifa University of Science and Technology has identified the following key strategic priorities: World-Class Education: To prepare future leaders to an internationally recognized standard. Influential Research: To produce world-class research with local relevance and global impact. The catalyst for Economic Development: To enrich the national economy through innovation and research commercialization. The University is fully licensed, and the Commission accredits all its programs for Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates. The University aims to obtain accreditation and recognition for its programs from international accreditation and recognition. View full university

Rabdan Academy is an autonomous, coeducational foundation introduced in 2013 as a component of an Abu Dhabi Government initiative. The Academy is promoted by the UAE government and owned altogether by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Rabdan Academy was publically founded under Law No. 7 for 2013, issued by UAE President His Highness Sheik Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in his ability as Ruler of Abu Dhabi. The Academy is a world-class, proficient training organization. Our central goal is to prepare and teach safety, security, resistance, and crisis readiness professionals over all segments to address the difficulties and dangers confronted worldwide by countries and societies today and in the future. We offer coordination and co-appointment over the training of the protection and security communities. The primary goal of the Academy is to go about as an essential source of future pioneers, an exceptional national center for leaders capability and advancement in the fields of safety, security, defense, emergency case readiness, and crisis management, given scientific ways to accomplish a bound together, incorporated and successful reaction in managing a wide range of foreseen dangers, threats, occurrences and emergencies in high efficiency, to follow up the advancement of sustainable training standards, and to improve concerned division capabilities. Vision To give a future class multi-disciplinary learning atmosphere of choice for the continuous improvement and incorporation of safety, security, defense, crisis readiness, and emergency management professionals. Mission To advance individuals and groups to a future-class standard that guarantees an exceedingly specific, multi-disciplinary, coherent, vigorous, and practical national capability for the global community's security, its people, and its advantage. Objectives The institute is to make a learning atmosphere capable of: Offering first-rate and standardized personal, organizational, and incorporated safety, security, safeguard, crisis readiness and emergency management teaching, training, and career guidance/preparedness relevant to the regional environment and necessities. Offering high-tech facilities and frameworks that offer a safe and secure atmosphere for protecting staff, facilities, hardware, and data. Being utterly consistent with every single significant Objective of the Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 and Economic Vision (AD2030), including Emiratisation, ecological, and business working contemplations. Obtaining national and global acknowledgment and accreditation for all significant teaching and training offered by the Academy Admissions Rabdan Academy takes in applications from students from all over the Emirates of UAE, and Rabdan students are selected and supported by stakeholder associations, for example, the UAE Armed Forces and the Ministry of Interior (MOI). Rabdan Faculty are exceedingly qualified educators from around the globe. The medium of the guideline at the Academy is English, except Associate in Crime Scene. The Academy Board of Trustees decides the size and character of the student body. It is eventually in charge of guaranteeing that all admission rules and strategies align with the Academy mission and objectives, are unmistakably characterized, apply to all students similarly, and are appropriately published. A sub-council of the Academy Education Board (the Admissions and Enrolment Committee) will survey and settle on choices on matters appointed to them, and generally make proposals to the Board of Trustees where needed on all matters connected with the admission and enrolment of students. View full university

Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS) is under the leadership of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Council of Political and Security Affairs, and Minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His Royal Highness is the Chairman of the Supreme Council at NAUSS. NAUSS is a unique educational institution in the Arab world and is situated in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. NAUSS was established in 1978 and was named The Arab Centre for Security Studies and Training. It was established through cooperation between Arab police and security chiefs and the Council of Arab Interior Ministers to meet Arab security personnel's training needs. In 1997 the Council of Arab Interior Ministers, recognizing the tremendous academic advancements of NAUSS under the leadership and support of His Royal Highness Prince Naif Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, named the center Naif Arab Academy for Security Sciences. NAUSS advanced in all of its security training fields and developed its various departments into separate colleges offering postgraduate level qualifications such as doctorates, master's degrees, and diplomas. In 2004, NAUSS was granted official university status by the Council of Arab Interior Ministers due to its significant academic achievements. The name given to the University was Naif Arab University for Security Sciences. University's Mission To provide a scientific and academic environment for the preparation of exceptional security leaders to carry out security studies that meet the needs of Arab societies according to a comprehensive concept of security using administrative, technological, and information-based means and through activating Arab partnerships. University Goals Providing the foundations of security sciences and giving knowledge about regulations in the Islamic Sharia Making academic specializations in postgraduate studies in fields of security based on a comprehensive concept of security available to people from Arab countries Training Arab security and professional personnel and qualifying them in the field of criminal justice and crime-fighting Enriching academic research in fields of academic and strategic studies and providing academic consultation, and strengthening the body of security-related literature with research and specialist studies Strengthening academic and security-related cooperation with academic and policy-based institutions and with international organizations Contributing to nurturing an awareness of security to serve issues of sustained growth Programs and research at the University related to a large number of security topics including counter-terrorism, drugs, human trafficking, forensic sciences, strategic sciences, civil defense, border security, criminal justice, domestic violence, fraud, rehabilitation of offenders, prison management, security training, and education, and more. The University is one of the 17 centers worldwide that are collectively part of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program Network. NAUSS specializes in advanced security-related studies at the postgraduate level in the form of diplomas, master's degrees, and doctorate programs. NAUSS also offers other security-related diplomas and training courses and holds various security exhibitions. The medium of study is Arabic, and students come from all over the Arab world. Students may be accepted from other countries upon agreement from the executive committee. NAUSS is the only academic institution directly serving the Council of Arab Interior Ministers. At NAUSS, programs are offered following the directions and advice of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers and the Arab League. In striving to fight and prevent crime in all its forms, the University aims to serve all Arab nations in providing expert academic studies and training to its security forces. Also, NAUSS cooperates with international security institutions and experts in exchanging knowledge and experience. NAUSS has strong relationships with many educational and security-related institutions regionally and internationally - including the United Nations the University continuously holds security conferences, seminars, and exhibitions to spread awareness about security and develop the skills and knowledge of those working in its field. View full university