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In 2022, a report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) identified Qatar as the most significant foreign donor to American universities. The research revealed that from 2001 to 2021, US higher education institutions received US$13 billion in funding from foreign sources, with Qatar contributing donations totaling $4.7 billion to universities in the United States.
Over 1,000 Qatari students study in the United States. [22] Six U.S. universities have branch campuses in Qatar's Education City complex. There are Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ), Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q), Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Georgetown University School of Foreign ...
Texas A&M University at Qatar; Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar [15] Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar [16] City University College [17] German University Qatar [18] University College London Qatar (UCL Qatar) [19] [2010-2020] MIE-SPPU Institute of Higher Education (Savitribai Phule Pune University's Qatar Campus) [20] OUC, Qatar [21]
Texas A&M University at Qatar [74] Doha Qatar: 2003 Accredited: Virginia Commonwealth University - Qatar (VCUArts Qatar) Doha Qatar: 1998 Accredited: Northwestern University in Qatar: Doha Qatar: 2008 Accredited: Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar: Doha Qatar: 2001 Accredited: San Diego State University Georgia Campus (SDSU Georgia) Tbilisi Georgia ...
The education system in Qatar is jointly directed and controlled by the Supreme Education Council (SEC) and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE) at all levels. The SEC is responsible for overseeing independent schools, whereas the MOE is responsible for providing support to private schools. [ 5 ]
Carnegie Mellon University's campus in Qatar was established in 2004. [4] It was the fourth U.S. higher education institution to establish a campus in Qatar. The establishment of the campuses was founded by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatar's current Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani.
The entrance to Georgetown's campus in Education City. The Georgetown University in Qatar building [22] in Education City was inaugurated in February 2011. The purpose-built 360,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) building features a three-story high atrium, an auditorium with a seating capacity for 300 people and 14 classrooms and lecture halls.
The Qatar Foundation was started by then-Emir Shiekh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his wife and mother of the current Emir Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. The campus was opened as part of Qatar's "massive venture to import elite higher education from the United States to Doha using the oil and natural-gas riches of the tiny Persian Gulf nation". [7]