According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025, which were made public early on Wednesday, both universities have been listed among the top 200 universities in the world for the first time. For the ninth year in a row, the University of Oxford has been named as the top university in the world.
After rising to the 201-250 position in last year’s tables and ranking among the top 350 in the globe in 2023, Abu Dhabi University took 191st place this year. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals placed 176th in the 2025 rankings after spending the previous two years in the 201-250 range.
“I have long emphasised the remarkable expansion of higher education in the Arab world, and especially in the Gulf states,” Phil Baty, Times Higher Education chief global affairs officer, said. “This year is a momentous one as two Arab universities, from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have broken into the top 200.
This is a major monument to the amazing efforts being made to drastically improve higher education in those nations and the surrounding area, particularly with the support of revolutionary programs like the United Arab Emirates’ Vision 2031 and Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. Suppose the region can stay stable over the next few years. In that case, we anticipate that more universities will join the top 200 and even higher thanks to the region’s ongoing investment in higher education.
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