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

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Students at Some American Branch Campuses in Qatar Have Lower SAT's - July 10, 2009
Georgetown's Growing Pains: Eager Applicants, Troubled Finances - January 28, 2000
America's Hot New Export: Higher Education - February 17, 2006
In India, Limits on Foreign Universities Lead to Creative Partnerships - February 8, 2008
U.S. Universities Negotiate Tricky Terrain in the Middle East - July 25, 2008

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