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Qatar / Education /
Qatar has presently only 1 university, corresponding to a university density of 1:830,000 inhabitants, placing Qatar as no. 11 of 22 in the MENA region.
Efforts by Qatari government has secured the establishment of so far 9 satellite campuses of US, Canadian and Dutch universities, 6 of them located to the ambitious project of the Education City. Each offer exchange programs, the number of resident students count a few hundred for each institution.
The University of Qatar is ranked 3729 in the world by Webmetrics, reflecting that there is still a lot to do before the government's ambitions of making Qatar a centre of education are accomplished.
University of Qatar, Doha. Est. 1973
Satellite university campusesStenden University, Doha. Est. unknown. Netherlands.
College of the North Atlantic, Doha. Est. 2001. Canada.
University of Calgary, Doha. Est. 2007. Canada.
Education CityCarnegie Mellon University, Education City. Est. 2004. USA.
Georgetown University, Education City. Est. 2005. USA.
Northwestern University, Education City. Est. unknown. USA.
Texas A&M University, Education City. Est. 2003. USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Education City. Est. unknown. USA.
Weill Cornell Medical College, Education City. Est. unknown. USA