In 2017, UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, His Highness
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a decree to merge the Khalifa
University of Science, Technology and Research, the Masdar Institute of Science
and Technology, and The Petroleum Institute under one university called the
Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Khalifa University).

Khalifa University is now a comprehensive research-intensive
university with three colleges, three research institutes, 18 research centers,
and 36 departments covering a broad range of disciplines in science,
engineering, and medicine. The internationally top-ranked university is the one
university in the UAE with the research and academic programs that address the
entire range of strategic, scientific and industrial challenges facing the
UAE’s knowledge economy transformation and our rapidly evolving world.

Khalifa University’s world-class faculty and
state-of-the-art research facilities provide an unparalleled learning
experience to students from the UAE and around the world. The university brings
together the best in science, engineering and medicine in the UAE, to offer
specialized degrees that can take promising high school graduates all the way
to top-rated doctorate degree holders.

It will continue to evolve with the UAE’s rapidly developing
national goals and needs and nurture the innovation ecosystem required for the
country’s targeted knowledge economy transformation.