Bangladeshi universities to open campuses in the UAE, officials said at Bangladesh Education Forum 2023
A number of Bangladeshi universities are planning to enrol UAE-based students in the coming years while some of them expressed their desire to open campuses in the UAE to serve the growing tertiary education market

Date: Dubai, UAE; October 17, 2023
News Highlights:
- More than 14.2 million students in the GCC will look for university and medical college enrolment and Bangladesh offers a great cost-effective and high-quality higher education facilities
- The UAE has 639 public schools and 580 private schools with a total enrolment of 287,725 students in public schools and 793,295 students in private schools, totalling 1,081,020 students.
- Total school fee is expected to reach US$7 billion (Dh25.7 billion) in 2023, according to a report by the UAE Ministry of Economy.
- More than 25,000 Non-Resident Bangladeshi (NRB) students currently study in different private schools and universities in the UAE.
- GCC students could avail university education with as low as US500 per semester, or US$6,000 – US$8,000 for a four-year Bachelors (Honours) Programme and a five-year MBBS degree for as low as US$35,000 to US$40,000 – one of the cheapest accredited MBBS degrees currently available in the world.
