{"id":7776,"date":"2025-09-22T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/middle-east-rises-in-popularity-as-overseas-study-destination\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:50:09","slug":"middle-east-rises-in-popularity-as-overseas-study-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/middle-east-rises-in-popularity-as-overseas-study-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East rises in popularity as overseas study destination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Students attend Curtin University Dubai’s orientation day this year. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY]
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Under the searing sun, 19-year-old Wu Yuqing dragged her suitcase across the sprawling campus of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia — her new home for the next four years.<\/p>\n

Just a day earlier, she had been in her hometown of Shuozhou, Shanxi province. Nearly 24 hours later, after taking a train to Beijing and a plane to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and then making a final hop to Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, she started her overseas study experience at the university.<\/p>\n

Wu is among a small but growing group of Chinese students now turning away from the well-trodden paths to North America, Europe and Australia, and toward the Middle East — a region once seen as distant, but now increasingly tied to China through trade, infrastructure and education.<\/p>\n

When she stepped off the plane in mid-August, the heavy, humid air from the nearby coast engulfed her.<\/p>\n

“The university is huge, a bit like a large community,” Wu said after her first walk around the campus. “There are kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools here, separate shopping centers for men and women and a medical center — even getting around requires the school bus, because walking would take too long.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Students attend Curtin University Dubai’s orientation day this year. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] Under the searing sun, 19-year-old Wu Yuqing dragged her suitcase across the sprawling campus of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia — her new home for the next four years. Just a day earlier, she had been in…<\/p>\n

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