MBZUAI welcomes 127 students from over 25 countries

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) welcomed 127 new students for the fall 2022 semester. With the new students, the university’s student population now stands at 259.

With a total of 3668 applications received and an admission rate of 3.73% for its current offerings across three departments, including master’s and doctoral degree programs in computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing, academic seats were competitive. There were 22 doctoral students and 105 master’s students among the newcomers.

The university has continued to attract top students from over 25 countries, including new countries such as Japan, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, and Iraq, due to the high quality of faculty and their published work. In keeping with the university’s mission to encourage more women to continue their post-graduate education and enter academia or research, 23 students come from the top 100 CS-ranked universities, and 32% of the new students are female.

“As a research university, one of our central contributions is in the development of AI talent — growing and sustaining a pipeline of future builders, innovators, thinkers, and leaders in the field,” MBZUAI President, Professor Eric Xing, said.

Among the newly admitted students are 30 UAE nationals who will work with their classmates to develop 4IR (fourth industrial revolution) solutions and the UAE’s National Strategy for AI 2031. Graduates will be prepared to pursue careers in industries in the UAE and other countries, as well as leading academic institutions.

“This year’s incoming class is a select group of top students from highly reputable global universities who will join us to grow their academic credentials and develop their entrepreneurial aspirations. Our ambition is that they’ll partake in exceptional research, bolster industrial innovation in the UAE, and contribute to scientific advancements and economic growth for a better world,” Xing said.

MBZUAI is ranked 30 in the world in its areas of focus — artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing — putting it ahead of renowned research universities such as the University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, and the University of Toronto in North America, as well as Imperial College London, EPFL, and the Max Planck Society in Europe.

The university aims to empower a new generation of Al leaders by providing exceptional education and a unique academic model that focuses on AI research and applications in addition to academic excellence. MBZUAI is well-known for its outstanding research and faculty, who have led or co-led a remarkable number of top global conferences in 2022, including the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR 2022), and the conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).