Facts and Figures
Faculty Members
Faculty members in the UAEU are holders of doctorate degrees from accredited Institutions. The faculty academic titles are: Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor. The total number of faculty members in the University during the academic year 2011-2012 was 658, in addition to a number of visiting faculty.
Instructors & Research Assistants
The University also has support teaching staff. Instructors are Masters Degree holders and Research Assistants hold Bachelor Degrees. The latter must have shown appropriate academic achievements during their studies as reflected in their graduation grade point average (GPA).
National Teaching Assistants
National teaching assistants are the potential future faculty members at the University. These assistants must have shown scholarly potential during their undergraduate education. The University will then sponsor their graduate education. There were 62 national teaching assistants, during the academic year 2011/2012.
Total Academic Staff
The following table provides statistics of the faculty members and teaching support staff in the University as of the academic year 2011/2012.
| College |
Faculty
Members |
Instructors |
Teaching
Assistants |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | 141 | 12 | 2 |
| Sciences | 102 | 20 | 3 |
| Education | 42 | 14 | 3 |
| Business and Economics | 61 | 2 | 8 |
| Law | 44 | 9 | 6 |
| Food & Agriculture | 30 | 14 | 0 |
| Engineering | 100 | 1 | 8 |
| Medicine and Health Sciences | 101 | 0 | 6 |
| Information Technology | 37 | 17 | 6 |
| UGRU | 0 | 245 | 0 |
| Total | 658 | 334 | 62 |
Male and Female Students
There were 13,075 students registered at the University during the academic year 2011/2012. Enrolled male students represented 25%, while female students represented 75% of the entire student population. The distribution of the enrolled students across the various faculties has been presented in the following table.
| College |
Male
Students |
Female
Students |
Total |
| Humanities and Social Sciences | 269 | 2,813 | 3,082 |
| Sciences | 245 | 782 | 1,027 |
| Education | 0 | 643 | 643 |
| Business and Economics | 585 | 2,096 | 2,981 |
| Law | 432 | 547 | 979 |
| Food & Agriculture | 116 | 479 | 595 |
| Engineering | 806 | 1,303 | 2,109 |
| Medicine and Health Sciences | 126 | 297 | 423 |
| Information Technology | 127 | 449 | 576 |
| Graduate Studies | 243 | 285 | 528 |
| Doctorate | 40 | 92 | 132 |
| Total | 3,289 | 9,786 | 13,075 |
The above information is provided by the Institutional Research and Planning Support Unit
