Education

• Ideal platform for bilingual education – English & French
• Robust academic and regulatory framework
• Internationally recognized academic and professional qualifications
• More than 700 programmes
• Subsidiary campuses of prestigious institutions
• Cosmopolitan and multicultural environment
• Streamlined procedures for issuance of student visa
• A peaceful set-up for international students
• Modern expanding infrastructure
• Ongoing promotion of tertiary facilities
• A democracy with impressive ratings in international surveys and regional indices
• A geostrategic location that serves as a bridge linking Asia, Africa and Australia
• Political stability & rule of law
• High quality living

Investment opportunities exist for the setting up of:

• World-class international pre-primary, primary and secondary schools
• Boarding Schools
• Polytechnic institutes
• Specialised institutions/university campuses offering courses in niche fields such as Maritime, Renewable Energy, Ocean Economy, Biotechnology, AI, creative arts, high tech engineering, FinTech, Cloud Computing, Robotics, amongst others
• Research Centres
• Executive Education

• 100% foreign ownership allowed
• 15% personal income tax rate
• 15% corporate tax rate
• Tax free dividends
• No capital gains tax
• Investment Certificate for eligible tertiary educational institutions (8 year tax holiday for new companies + other fiscal incentives)
• VAT exemptions on construction of purpose-built building for the provision of tertiary education
• Land conversion tax exemption for the construction of a purpose-built building for the provision of pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary education
• Registration duty exemption on purchase of land and building to be used to provide primary, secondary and tertiary education