Universiapolis, the Université Internationale d’Agadir, has formalised an educational partnership with Bahia Education Services, the MENA-region licensed provider of Earn2Trade products, to integrate structured proprietary trading content into the fifth year of the university’s accredited Master’s programme in Financial Engineering and Trading. The deal was announced on 7 July 2026.
Under the arrangement, Earn2Trade holds exclusive status as the university’s partner for structured trading education and trader evaluation programmes tied to the Master’s. Students gain access to Earn2Trade’s beginner curriculum, at least two months of free demo-account access running on live or live-equivalent market data, and a co-issued certificate from both institutions on completion. Graduates who clear the programme’s requirements receive one free sitting of the Earn2Trade Trader Career Path 50K examination, which, if passed, can lead to a funded trading account through an authorised proprietary trading firm. A further twenty free examination accounts are distributed annually as student giveaways each January.
Habiba Elbardai, Dean of Universiapolis, said the integration was designed to equip Master’s students with practical tools and evaluations relevant to the competitive proprietary trading field. Osvaldo Dos Santos, Owner of Bahia Education Services, described the academic embedding as a direct, structured pathway for students in Morocco to reach funded trading accounts on graduation.
The proprietary trading education market
The prop trading education sector has grown markedly over the past four years, driven by retail demand for structured pathways into futures and forex markets. Platforms such as Earn2Trade, FTMO and MyFundedFutures compete largely on the credibility of their evaluation models, the terms attached to funded accounts, and their reach across educational and professional networks. Formal university accreditation is relatively unusual in this space, where most providers distribute content through self-directed online channels. A curriculum integration of this kind offers Earn2Trade a reputational anchor that standalone online courses cannot easily replicate, while giving the university a commercial partnership that adds vocational content to its programme.
The value proposition for students rests on whether funded account access translates into viable trading careers. Proprietary trading firms typically impose drawdown limits and profit-share arrangements, and funded account offers are conditional on passing evaluation hurdles rather than guaranteed on graduation. That distinction is absent from the release language and may need clarifying in communications aimed at prospective students.
Regulatory and regional context
The MENA fintech and financial education landscape is developing rapidly, with regulators in the UAE, including the DFSA and the wider ADGM framework, paying increasing attention to how retail-facing trading products are marketed and distributed. Morocco, where Universiapolis is based, sits under domestic financial services oversight rather than any Gulf regulatory umbrella, but the UAE connection through Bahia Education Services in Dubai means the partnership straddles two distinct regulatory environments. Neither party addressed in the release how the funded account pathway is structured from a licensing perspective across those jurisdictions, which is a question compliance-focused readers in the sector will ask.
The partnership is positioned as a first of its kind, though the release did not name a third-party source to validate that claim. The next milestones to watch are the programme launch date within the academic calendar and whether comparable partnerships follow in other MENA markets.
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