It would be a gross understatement to say higher education in the UAE is an expensive affair. But as an XPRESS survey of five universities reveals, that’s just one side of the story.

Figures show that at least 15 to 20 per cent of university students are on some form of scholarship with UAE universities offering under-graduate and post-graduate programmes with scholarships running into hundreds of thousands of dirhams to attract meritorious and financially challenged students to their campuses. And not just from the UAE either. Colleges are offering plenty in terms of incentives to students from all over the world. Reports edarabia.