UAD may stand for: United Action for Democracy, a Nigerian political group University of Abertay Dundee, a university in Dundee, Scotland Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, a university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Democratic Arucasian Union (Spanish: Unión Aruquense Democrática), a small political party in Spain Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca (Romanian: Universitatea de Artă şi Design), an art university in Romania UAD-1/UAD-2(Universal Audio Digital)_, a series of Digital signal processor cards Uniform Appraisal Dataset, a specification for appraisal data on loans Autonomous University of Durango (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Durango), a private university in Mexico with multiple campuses