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Master's

MSc Smart Cities and Municipal Services (GCC) (Online)

Arab Leadership University

Arab Leadership University

Master's

MSc Smart Cities and Municipal Services (GCC) (Online)

Arab Leadership University

Arab Leadership University (online)

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Tuition

Free (online)

Degree

M.Sc.

Delivery

Full-time · Online

Duration

2 years (18 mo)

Language & requirements

Taught in: English, Arabic

Tuition fees

  • INTERNATIONALFree (online)

About Arab Leadership University

Fully online Arabic digital university serving the League of Arab States.

Overview

This MSc is for municipality service managers, vendor-facing officers, and family-enterprise contractors who already live inside GCC smart-city programmes without being licensed engineers. Arab Leadership University will not award PE/CEng and will not put city or LAS logos on the page. You will map work orders, bilingual citizen journeys, and dashboard theatre. Tuition-free online. Capstones use anonymised municipal service files, not a render of a fictional skyline. Identity-checked exams sit beside municipal work-order files. You will not claim PE/CEng, a city CIO badge, or UN-Habitat employment.

Delivered fully online with live seminars, recorded lectures, and tutor support.

**Award:** Arab Leadership University **Credits:** 36 | **Typical duration:** 2 years (18 months)

Course structure

4 terms · 16 modules · 36 credits

Module 1: Municipal operations

  • ALU3201·Work Orders, Heat, and Eid Failure
    3 credits
  • ALU3202·Permits and Bilingual Citizen Journeys
    3 credits
  • ALU3203·Waste, Lighting, and Unfashionable Services
    3 credits
  • ALU3204·Paper Invoices inside Smart Programmes
    3 credits

Module 2: Vendors and data

  • ALU3205·English Decks versus Arabic Operating Calendars
    3 credits
  • ALU3206·Dashboard Theatre and Honest Indicators
    3 credits
  • ALU3207·Family Enterprise as Contractor
    3 credits
  • ALU3208·Attestation of IT Degrees versus Evaluation
    3 credits

Module 3: Governance

  • ALU3209·Vision 2030 Procurement Calendars
    3 credits
  • ALU3210·PE/CEng and CIO Boundary Statements
    3 credits
  • ALU3211·No City/LAS/UN-Habitat Logos
    3 credits
  • ALU3212·EN+AR Director Briefings
    3 credits

Module 4: Capstone

  • ALU3213·Service Recovery Design
    3 credits
  • ALU3214·Research Methods for Municipal Management
    3 credits
  • ALU3215·Ethics of Drone Footage Marketing
    3 credits
  • ALU3216·Capstone: GCC Municipal Services File
    3 credits

Learning outcomes

  • Apply discipline-specific theory to complex professional problems
  • Design and execute research or applied projects to postgraduate standard
  • Communicate findings clearly to academic and industry audiences
  • Demonstrate ethical, inclusive practice in global workplaces

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