United Arab Emirates University have provided the United Arab Emirates with ministers, diplomats, senior government officials, and business leaders. The university is located in the city of Al Ain, an oasis city in the Abu Dhabi emirate 140 km east of the capital city of Abu Dhabi and a similar distance from the city of Dubai. The university features six separate smaller campuses. Students come from all seven Emirates plus more than 64 countries. 6,696 students live on campus. 2014, enrolled international students constituted 25% of the total enrolled students The United Arab Emirates University is continuously ranked as the top university in the
Federation of Arab Emirates of the South Federation of Arab Emirates of the South The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South ( "Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy") was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federation of six states was inaugurated in the British Colony of Aden on 11 February 1959, and the Federation and Britain signed a “Treaty of Friendship and Protection,” which detailed plans for British financial and military assistance. It subsequently added nine states and, on 4 April 1962, became known as the Federation of South Arabia. This was joined by the Aden Colony on