DubaiStudentLife
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Dubai, as a student actually uses it.
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The students' heart of Dubai.
Events, places worth going, every university ranked, paid work, and answers to the questions nobody warns you about. One place, free, built by students here.
687 students already registered
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Sat 3Old Dubai Photo WalkWed 7Study Abroad & Exchange FairThu 8AUD Open Mic NightFri 9La Mer Night MarketSat 10Museum of the Future: Student TourSun 11Global Village Student NightWed 14Money for Students: Budgeting, Banking & First InvestmentsThu 15Student Startup Pitch NightFri 16d3 Food Truck FestivalSat 17Inter-University Football Cup: Finals Day
Sat 3Old Dubai Photo WalkWed 7Study Abroad & Exchange FairThu 8AUD Open Mic NightFri 9La Mer Night MarketSat 10Museum of the Future: Student TourSun 11Global Village Student NightWed 14Money for Students: Budgeting, Banking & First InvestmentsThu 15Student Startup Pitch NightFri 16d3 Food Truck FestivalSat 17Inter-University Football Cup: Finals Day
(01)Why this exists
Student life in Dubai lived in a hundred group chats, and you heard about the good things the day after. Now it lives in one place.
25 universities, more than 100 places worth the metro fare and something on every night of the week. DubaiStudentLife puts all of it in one feed, checked, priced and free.
(02)The platform
Four worlds.
One student city.
Events were first. Everything else a student in Dubai needs is being built around them, in four sections. The live ones work today; the rest each have a page saying exactly where they stand.
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Study
Getting in, paying for it, and passing.
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Careers
Work that fits around a degree.
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Living
The admin nobody warns you about.
(03)What is on
Dubai is doing something tonight.
Your week should not depend on being in the right WhatsApp group. Filter it the way you would actually decide: tonight, this week, free, or filling up fastest.
- 39events listed
- 5in the next 7 days
- 24cost nothing
- Arts3:30pm – 6:30pm
Old Dubai Photo Walk
Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, Bur DubaiDubai Student SocialsSample EventFree - Career11am – 5pm
Study Abroad & Exchange Fair
Dubai International Academic City, Central HallUniLife DubaiSample EventFree - Music7pm – 10pm
AUD Open Mic Night
American University in Dubai, Student Centre, Al SufouhAUD Student GovernmentSample EventFree - Food6pm – 11pm
La Mer Night Market
La Mer Beachfront, North Side, JumeirahDubai Student SocialsSample EventFree - Experiences6pm – 8pm
Museum of the Future: Student Tour
Museum of the Future, Sheikh Zayed Road, Trade CentreDubai Student SocialsSample EventAED 95 - Experiences4pm – 11pm
Global Village Student Night
Global Village, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road, DubailandUniLife DubaiSample EventAED 25 - Career6:30pm – 8:30pm
Money for Students: Budgeting, Banking & First Investments
DIFC Innovation HubAstroLabs DubaiSample EventFree - Career6pm – 9:30pm
Student Startup Pitch Night
AREA 2071, Emirates Towers, DIFCin5 TechSample EventFree - Food5pm – 11pm
d3 Food Truck Festival
Dubai Design District, Building 7, d3Dubai Design DistrictSample EventFree - Sports9am – 7pm
Inter-University Football Cup: Finals Day
Dubai Sports City, Pitches 1 & 2Campus Sport UAESample EventFree
Nothing in this slice right now. See everything on.
View all 39 events
29 more later in the season. Search, date, price, category and university filters on one page.
(04)Spots to go
100 places worth the metro fare.
From free beaches to the city's best rooftops, each one picked for a student's time and budget, with what it really costs written on it. 69 of them cost nothing to walk into.
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(05)University rankings
25 universities. Five scores. Nobody wins all five.
Scored out of ten on the things that decide what a degree here is worth: academics, reputation, employability, student life and value. Then read again subject by subject, 322 degrees across 43 subjects.
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9.26/ 10
Rank 1: Heriot-Watt University Dubai
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8.82/ 10
Rank 2: Middlesex University Dubai
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8.76/ 10
Rank 3: University of Birmingham Dubai
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Rank 4: University of Wollongong in Dubai
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Rank 5: Curtin University Dubai
No sponsored places. No logos bought.
Sort by whatever you are actually choosing on, or switch to a subject and watch all 25 reorder.
Open the full ranking(06)Careers
Work that fits around a degree.
Who hires students in Dubai, when they open applications and what a student visa lets you do. Or skip the queue and get paid for what you already know.
Internships
Internships in Dubai, without the guesswork.
Intake windows, the sectors that actually hire students, and how to get read instead of filtered.
3paid roles open at DSL
3intake windows a year
Read the guide
Become a tutor
AED 80–250 an hour
You already explain this to your friends for free. Parents across Dubai pay for exactly that. Apply once and get matched near your campus.
Start the application
(07)Your first year
Your first year here, mapped.
The things that catch every new student out, in the order they arrive. Each stop opens the part of the site that deals with it.
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(08)Being built
The rest of student life, already in the works.
Housing, transport, money, health, food, scholarships. Each has a page explaining exactly what it will do and where it honestly stands. Register once and you hear the day each one opens.
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(09)Ask DSL
300 questions. Plain answers.
Every question a student asks in their first year here, answered by people who asked it too. Type it the way you would ask a friend.
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Be first in when it opens.
Event discovery already works, so go and use it. Everything else on this page is being finished now. Register and you will be told the day it opens, and nothing else.
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DubaiStudentLife lists student events from every university in Dubai in a single feed, so you are not checking 16 separate society pages and a dozen Instagram accounts to find out what is on this weekend. Filter by date, price, category or university, and open any event for the full time, venue, price and booking details.
Yes, and plenty of them. 24 of the 39 events listed right now cost nothing to attend, including society nights, workshops, career fairs and campus socials. You can see only those at any time by filtering the feed to free events.
All of them. That includes the University of Wollongong in Dubai, Heriot-Watt Dubai, Middlesex Dubai, the American University in Dubai, BITS Pilani Dubai, Canadian University Dubai, Amity, Murdoch, Birmingham Dubai, Manipal, SP Jain, Zayed University, RIT Dubai, Curtin Dubai, De Montfort Dubai and the University of Dubai. Events open to students from any campus are listed alongside campus-only ones.
No. Browsing events is free and always will be, and registering is free too. Individual events may charge for a ticket, and where they do the price is shown on the card before you click anything.
More than most people assume. Campus society nights, free workshops, inter-university sport, gallery late nights, food markets and beach meetups all run at no cost or close to it, and student-rate desert trips, boat parties and karting come in well under the tourist price. Filter the feed to free events, or sort by price low to high, to see what fits.
Yes, and there is no charge for it. University societies, student networks and venues running genuinely student-focused events can submit a listing, and it appears in the feed and on its own page once it is checked.
It depends on the event, and each listing says so. Campus events usually need a valid student ID at the door, and student-rate tickets almost always do. Public events with student pricing will say what they accept.