Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai

Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai opened in 2008 and awards RIT degrees in engineering, computing and business. Teaching is entirely in English. Dubai is the practical argument. It is among the most internationally connected cities in the world, with direct flights to Almaty and Astana, an expatriate majority population, and English as the common working language. For a Kazakh student that combination removes most of the friction of studying abroad. RIT's cooperative education tradition, placing students in paid industry work as part of the degree, is a distinguishing feature of the home institution. Whether it operates at the Dubai campus, and whether an international student can take up placements under Emirati visa rules, should be established because it affects both cost and employability. Dubai is expensive, which is the main offset against an otherwise favourable position, and aid here is more likely to be merit-based than need-based.