Why Dubai
The case for the city itself, including the parts nobody enjoys.
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Studying at TIIB
Everything practical, in one place. What it all costs, how the visa works, where students live, what happens after you graduate.
If you are reading this for someone else, the whole page is designed to be sent on.
The short version
- Tuition, two-year HND
- AED 40,000 per year
- Student visa, from abroad
- AED 5,500
- Accommodation
- AED 3,500 to 5,000 a month
- Internship stipend
- Up to AED 1,000/month
- Intakes
- Jan, Apr, Jun, Sep
- Next intake
- September 2026
Standard fee. Instalment plans are agreed with your offer. The visa is sponsored by TIIB and the figure above is all-inclusive. The stipend is a ceiling: what you are paid is set on your performance during the placement.
Everything in the student hub
Before you arrive
Fees and funding
Tuition by programme, what is included, what is not, and instalments.
See every feeStudent visa
TIIB sponsors it and runs the process. This is the whole timeline.
See the sequenceAccommodation
Where students live near Knowledge Park, and what changes the rent.
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While you study
Life at TIIB
Campus, events and nine people saying what they think of it.
See the galleryInternships and employability
A guaranteed placement four months in, and the employer network behind it.
How it worksStartup fund
Capital and mentoring for ventures our students start.
How the fund worksUniversity pathways
How a two-year diploma turns into a bachelor's degree in one more year.
See the arithmetic
Already a student
Referral programme
AED 500 off your tuition for each person you refer who enrols and starts.
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Coming from abroad?
Pick a programme first. Everything else on this page follows from it, including the fee, the visa timeline and the intake you can make.
Questions get answered in one working day
Four intakes a year, and the application takes about ten minutes. If something on this page decides it for you, start there.