May 27, 2005

Georgetown Plans Foreign-Service Branch in Qatar

Georgetown U. in Qatar: Georgetown University plans to open a branch campus of its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar in August, university officials said this month. Georgetown is the latest American institution to join Qatar's Education City, which already includes branch campuses of four American universities (The Chronicle, April 22). Georgetown's Qatar campus will offer undergraduate degrees in foreign service to about 25 students a year and eventually will have at least