September 6, 2002

Qatar Courts American Colleges

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Institutions weigh the risks of creating Persian Gulf campuses against the attractive returns

An Ivy League medical school is being built, complete with wireless networking and a high-speed Internet link to New York City. The campus is taking shape not in one of the Northeast's medical hubs, but on a barren patch of desert near the Persian Gulf, in the emirate of Qatar.

Cornell University's branch medical-school campus isn't the only American college presence in Qatar. Nearby,

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