EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 66 JUNE 2025 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL degree at the Abu Dhabi campus in any of 26 majors, with more than 500 courses offered each year. They can “study abroad” in the United States or at any of NYU’s 15 global campuses. Degrees from NYU Abu Dhabi are equivalent to degrees from NYU’s main campus, and the program is even more selective than the New York campus, with only 4 percent of applicants admitted. This selectivity is unusual, however. Admission to the branch campus is often less selective than to the main campus. At the Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) campus in Dubai, hopeful engineering majors need only a minimum combined international baccalaureate (IB) of 24 with at least two lab sciences and completion of high school precalculus. At RIT’s main campus, engineering applicants must have taken physics and chemistry, and a year of calculus is strongly preferred. Average grades in all courses should be in the upper 90 percent. RIT-Dubai students can study at the main campus for a year or transfer there after completing their first year. This could be an ideal pathway for an internationally schooled student who is interested in a career-focused science degree. The “Joint Degree” Option. Another option is to look for a “joint degree,” for which students spend time on two or more campuses and earn one, two, or even three degrees in the time it usually takes to complete one. Students interested in economics or international business will find a The tuition at American-style universities abroad is higher than the average tuition in Europe, but some charge significantly less than U.S. tuition rates.
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