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Build your first company before your first degree.
You'll learn from 35+ founders who run real companies and pitch for a share of the AED 2 million startup fund. On a two-year diploma the internship pays up to AED 1,000 a month, based on performance.
An admissions counsellor replies within one working day.
- 32 programmes
- Pearson BTEC, recognised in 70+ countries
- Campus in Dubai Knowledge Park
Six programmes people ask about most
Duration and the full fee sit above every row, so you can weigh them against each other before you talk to anyone.
2 yearsAED 40,000 per year
Examination fees are included, so the per-year figure above is the whole of it.
4 monthsAED 25,000 for the programme
Live campaigns on real budgets, reported the way an agency reports them.
1 yearAED 40,000 for the year
One venture, carried across the year to a public launch in front of investors and press.
The room you learn in
Founders who run businesses in the region, and an advisory board that reaches well past the UAE. They set the briefs, sit on the pitch panels, and say when an idea does not work.
Dr Prashant K Mishra
Chief Operating Officer, Global College Malta
Jeremiah O'Brain
Global Thought Leadership Expert
Mariam Kvlividze
Impact Entrepreneur
Dr K. R. Suresh Nair
Scientist
Fiona Garfagnini
Founder, FG Consulting and Be Next Agency
Simon Ballard
Global Economist
Shamsudheen Nellara
Nellara Foods
Fahiyas Pangatt
The Deep Seafood Company
PM Haris
Bismi Group
Ayub Kallada
Wyse Ventures
Sidheeq TV
Forum Group
Fazil Rahman
Classic Bullion and Jewellery
35+ founders behind the institute, and 300+ leaders on the advisory board.
Meet the boardEvery HND student gets an internship. It starts four months in.
Not at the end, and not as something you have to go and find. TIIB signed direct agreements with its 22+ partner companies so that placements exist before students need them. Hours are capped at what UAE rules allow a student to work.
By the time you graduate you have a reference from a company with a name, and a real answer when an interviewer asks what you have actually done.
- StipendUp to AED 1,000/month
- Capped at20 hrs/week
- StartsMonth 4
Learn from people who build companies, then build your own.
The startup fund, for businesses our students start
Submit a proposal, defend it in front of a panel, and if it holds up you get funding and someone experienced sitting with you while you build. It is a pool rather than a prize, so more than one venture is backed.
Two years here, one year to a degree
Universities count credits rather than years, so two years here and one final year elsewhere add up to the same degree, two of the three at Dubai fees.
Level 3
Entry
Levels 4 and 5
240 credits
Level 6
120 credits
The award
360 credits
The campus, in their words
Shared desks, teaching rooms and a view of the park. Nine students and advisers on camera, unscripted.
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The finder asks four questions and narrows the list to two or three. If you would rather just ask someone, admissions replies within one working day.