Employers: this is how you meet them early
Every placement is a company that met a student before graduation. If you hire, that is the cheapest introduction you will get.
Studying at TIIB
Internships and what comes after
The internship is guaranteed, it is paid, and it starts four months after you join rather than at the end.
That is the part of TIIB hardest for another institute to copy, because it took direct agreements with 22+ companies to make it exist.
The internship
- Stipend
- Up to AED 1,000/month
- Starts
- Month four
- Hours
- Up to 20 a week
- Assessed
- Inside your programme
Twenty hours is the ceiling a student visa sets, so the placement is built to fit inside it rather than around it. The stipend is a ceiling as well: up to AED 1,000 a month, based on how you perform during the placement.
How the placement works
You are matched to a company by specialism rather than by whoever has a desk free, and the placement is assessed as part of the programme, so the work counts twice.
Because the agreements sit with the institute, nobody spends their second term cold-emailing strangers for experience.
The partner network
Trading, retail, food, automotive, logistics, media and technology. Most of them are founder-run, and several of those founders teach on the programmes.
Placements are matched inside that network, which is why one exists for every student rather than for the ones who ask first.
Career support
Three things the careers team does with you, in the order they matter.
Career counselling
One-to-one sessions on what you actually want to do, before anyone writes a CV.
Applications
Your CV and covering letter written, then rewritten against feedback, for the roles you are going for.
Interview practice
Mock interviews, including the uncomfortable questions, until the real one is not the first one.
Host an intern or hire a graduate
After graduation
Three routes out, and the institute is set up for all three rather than pretending everyone wants the same one.
A job
Most graduates go straight into work, usually in the sector their placement was in, because a reference from a named company beats a grade in an interview.
The top-up year
One more year turns the diploma into a full honours degree. The pathways page has the arithmetic and the partner institutions.
A company of your own
Your own business, with the AED 2 million fund and a panel of investors behind the proposal rather than a bank.
Questions people ask
Is the internship guaranteed, and is it paid?
Yes, on the two-year Higher National Diplomas. It begins in your fourth month rather than after the programme, it is paid, and 20 hours a week is the cap, so it does not take over your studies. The short and one-year programmes carry a TIIB certificate and no such guarantee.
How does TIIB help me find work after I graduate?
Through the internship first, and then through the partner network behind it. You also get one-to-one career counselling, help with your CV and covering letter, and mock interviews. Graduates go into business and digital roles across the UAE, and some leave with a business of their own instead.
Also useful
- University pathways
The top-up year, and which universities take the credits.
- The startup fund
Capital and mentoring if the answer is a company rather than a job.
- For employers
How companies join the network and what hosting an intern involves.
Pick the subject. The placement comes with it
Every programme carries the placement, so the choice is the subject rather than whether you get one. Admissions will tell you which specialisms the network is hiring from right now.
An admissions counsellor replies within one working day.