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Michigan State University is shutting down its undergraduate campus in Dubai, saying that it has lost millions of dollars on the effort while failing to attract enough students to make the program sustainable, The National reported. A small master's program will be maintained. Only about 100 undergraduates are enrolled, and Michigan State officials said that their financial plans had assumed larger enrollments.
Terry Denbow, vice president for university relations at Michigan State, told Inside Higher Ed vie e-mail that the university was indeed changing its goals for Dubai. "Our strategic approach is to sharpen our focus in the region and streamline operations in the face of recent and very dramatic worldwide economic challenges. We’ll focus on executive development programs, study abroad, graduate education, research and consulting services, and seek new academic opportunities in Dubai, the UAE, and the region," he said. "We have embarked upon the formal processes needed to shift undergraduate programs there to East Lansing with a seamless transition."
