History
DMC was established in 1989 by His Excellency Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, UAE Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor of the HCT, as one of the first four Higher Colleges of Technology in the country. DMC’s first home was a former car show room. With nine classrooms, two twenty-station computer labs, an electronics lab, a physics lab and a civil engineering lab, the college welcomed its first batch of 95 students on 9 September 1989. Programs were offered in the business and technology fields with a foundations program to assist those students who needed to improve their language and numerical skills before entering a specialized field. The college was located on the Dubai-Sharjah road, near Dubai Airport.
The original college building soon proved to be too small to accommodate the needs of the growing number of students and in 1991 the foundations program moved to an annex of its own. By 1995 there were three campuses- the main campus for career programs, the foundations campus and the BM campus for first year business students.
In Aug 1995, the college moved to the Al Mamzar building where all three campuses were combined into one. As the college enrollment progressed at a rapid rate year by year, by 1995, the year in which the certificate diploma course was introduced, it was no longer possible to accommodate the whole student body in one building. Thus in 1996 the foundations program moved to an annex of its own, followed by the communications technology in 1997. A learning centre was then added to the college facilities. In 1998 the college moved its premises to the former Dubai Women’s College building near the Abu Hail Centre and finally in 2004, DMC moved to a new purpose-built campus at its current location, and was the first college to open its gates in Academic City.
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