Dubai might be immigration-friendly... unless you're gay, or trans, or non-Muslim and want to tell other people what you believe, or (I suspect) pro-democracy. That might not be a great place for a branch of an Ivy League school.
Source: lived in dubai for most of my life
Would a person handing out christian tracts on a street corner have trouble?
I have never been in Dubai. I may have misrepresented it in my previous post.