dubai is emerging as a destination of choice for indian overseas aspirants as an increasing number of indian higher education institutions heis have set up campuses to meet the demandsupply gap in engineering and technology industry experts claim that the number of student admissions in dubai has increased threefold in the last fiveyears from 56 to almost 15 the united arab emirates encourages wellestablished universities to set up their campus in the emirates given the world class infrastructure and ease of access for students to pursue quality education there is an obvious trend for indian heis to set up a campus in dubai says vaidyanathan jayaraman global dean of ug education at sp jain school of global mananagement spjsgm an australian bschool with campuses in dubai mumbai singapore and sydney where students get to major in finance marketing or entrepreneurship and data science launchpad for global careers while increasing job prospects have led to an increased number of enquiries from the students and their parents from india and rest of the world over the past 3 years the pandemic has also played a role in this as parents are now looking at safer and closertohome study abroad options the united arab emirates is leading the world in its vaccination rollout programme wherein 85 of the eligible population is already vaccinated thus creating a safer environment for residents as well as tourists all of these combined with promising internship and jobplacement opportunities with leading global organisations make dubai an appealing value proposition for higher study says rn saha director bits pilani dubai campus that has witnessed 72 surge in admission in higher degrees and phd the institute provides 75 months of practice school industry internship programme to help students transition into the corporate world whilst developing technical and transferable skills in a global context demand for datadriven courses post covid employers are looking for engineers with specific knowledge and skillsets in the areas of ai machine learning data science data analytics software development supply chain logistics with comprehensive managerial abilities saha says indian heis are catering to this need giving students handson experience in industry scale machineries and software combined with leadership and managerial skills there is a renewed interest in computer engineering and bsc it programmes along with mechatronics and aerospace engineering increased interest in unmanned systems and travel to mars has ignited new demand in aerospace engineering the future is also going to be robotics driven and therefore mechatronics is becoming a programme of interest in the management domain business analytics logistics are doing well due to a datadriven future and upsurge in doortodoor retail says kavita shukla vice president student recruitment amity university dubai that has had a 1015 increase in admission numbers year on year we are being flexible and allowing freshers unable to come physically to dubai to take online classes shukla says affordable fee structure for most aspirants dubai also makes sound financial sense due to its affordable tuition fee and