Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence welcomes largest cohort in 2025 in Abu Dhabi

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has announced this autumn it will welcome its largest cohort so far, with 403 new students enrolling at its institution in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

MBZUAI says it received more than 8,000 applications across its Bachelor and graduate programs with an acceptance rate of five percent. 

The intake also includes its inaugural undergraduate class and new graduate cohorts in existing programs. 

MBZUAI’s newly launched Bachelor of Science in AI offers two streams: AI for Business and AI for Engineering, combining technical rigor with leadership, hands-on entrepreneurship, and in-situ industry experience. 

"Artificial intelligence is transforming the world at a pace that vastly outstrips traditional education models,” comments Timothy Baldwin, Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing at MBZUAI.

“To realise its full global potential, MBZUAI invests heavily in reviewing and updating our programmes to reflect modern AI research methodology and workflows, based on our bleeding-edge AI research credentials and grounded in societal and industrial needs. As a young institution, MBZUAI has already earned a place among the world's top ten AI universities based on our research credentials. With the introduction of our undergraduate and Master's in Applied AI programmes, we continue to build world-leading programmes aligned with the UAE's National Strategy for AI 2031 and supporting Abu Dhabi's rapidly growing AI ecosystem."

Professor Baldwin adds: "The jobs of tomorrow are being shaped by AI today and we must ensure that future generations are equipped with the tools and skills to navigate that shift. Our extraordinarily talented students don't just learn about AI, but learn with it, through it, and for it.

“This is an extraordinary value proposition across all our programmes, but especially for our undergraduate students, who will be studying towards a bachelor's degree in AI that I believe sets a new global benchmark in terms of technical depth, real-world relevance, and the high-end AI job-readiness of the students."

Earlier this year, MBZUA expanded its footprint with the launch of its Institute of Foundation Models - a multi-site initiative that includes the newly established Silicon Valley Lab in Sunnydale, California.