The objectives of the Aviation program are aligned with the overall mission and goals/ objectives of Abu Dhabi University. The Program’s mission is to provide students with a premium education through a well-prepared curriculum; to equip the graduates with knowledge and technical skills to successfully serve the aviation industry and operate modern aircrafts as competent and professional airline pilots; to prepare the students for postgraduate studies; and to provide them with the deeper and wider appreciation of the ever increasing safety and commercial demands of the civil aviation industry. The following four program objectives will satisfy constituents needs and fulfill the program’s mission: Produce well rounded and highly-competent professional pilots who will possess the theoretical knowledge and technical skills necessary to operate modern aircrafts. All graduates will have high level of competency in relevant areas such as aerodynamics, aircraft operations, human factors, gas turbine engine designs and crew resource management. The robust underpinning theoretical knowledge lays the solid foundation for an enhanced scope of career development structure with the potential to undertake professional development in the current and emerging civil aviation management functions such as flight safety, risk analysis, reliability trending, air accident investigation and novel air traffic management systems. Produce graduates with enhanced technical and operational capabilities needed for rigorous analysis of aircraft systems and problems that affect safe and efficient ground and flight operations. Prepare operational cadre graduates who are capable of successfully exploiting new potential career opportunities. They will be inspired with the prospect of undertaking continuing professional development towards the achievement of positions of greater responsibility in both multidisciplinary and multi-team environments. Produce graduates who repeatedly meet and exceed the demanding aviation industry expectations in terms of leadership and communication skills, ability to form/lead teams and groups, life-long learning attitudes and seeking the chances to promote community values and to pay due debts to society.

The student will get a pilot license if the internship is taken at a flight training institute where the student needs to spend at least 18 months.