Organization:Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Short description: University in Qatar

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Front entrance at sunset
Other name	CMU-Q
Motto	"My heart is in the work" (Andrew Carnegie)
Type	Private satellite campus
Established	2004 (2004)
Parent institution	Carnegie Mellon University
President	Farnam Jahanian
Provost	James Garrett
Dean	Michael Trick
Academic staff	64
Administrative staff	90
Undergraduates	467 (Fall 2022)
Location	Doha , Qatar
Campus	Multi-versity Education City, 2,400 acres (9.7 km2)
|u}}rs	Cardinal, Gray, and Tartan Plaid
Mascot	Scotty the Scottie Dog
Website	www.qatar.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (Arabic: جامعة كارنيجي ميلون في قطر) is a satellite campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatar. This campus is a member of the Qatar Foundation and started graduating students in May 2008. It enrolls around 400 students and has 60 faculty and postdoctoral researchers and 90 staff members.

History

Carnegie Mellon University's campus in Qatar was established in 2004. It was the fourth U.S. higher education institution to establish a campus in Qatar. The establishment of the campuses was spearheaded by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatar's current Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani.

Academics

Carnegie Mellon Qatar is part of Education City, a campus on the outskirts of Doha that currently houses eight other university campuses from the United States and Europe. Education City's other institutions include Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Weill Cornell Medical College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Texas A&M, Northwestern University, HEC Paris, and University College London.

The Doha campus of Carnegie Mellon offers the same degree programs and curricula that students receive at the Pittsburgh campus. Undergraduate degrees are offered in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, Computational Biology, and Biological Sciences (a degree offered in conjunction with Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar).

Funding

The campus facilities and upkeep are entirely financed by the Qatar Foundation. Carnegie Mellon also receives subsidies each year to run the campus and pay faculty. It is estimated that Carnegie Mellon has received between $50 and $60 million per year from the nation of Qatar to operate the Doha campus. Tuition for the school was $49,610 in 2015.

Faculty

As of December 2015, the campus had 62 faculty members. In a The Washington Post article, the dean of the university's Qatar campus, Ilker Baybars, called faculty recruiting “the most difficult part of [his] job”, noting that it is difficult to persuade tenured professors to leave America for Doha. In order to persuade professors to teach at the Doha campus, the university has provided incentives such as salary premiums, generous housing arrangements, and research funding.

The atrium of Carnegie Mellon Qatar with the university motto

Buildings

Carnegie Mellon Qatar is housed in a building designed by architects Legorreta + Legorreta. The university began occupancy in August 2008. All academics, student affairs, operations, and events are held in the building.

Gallery

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  The East-West Walkway holding an architecture exhibit

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  Fountain in backyard of Carnegie Mellon University

See also

• List of universities and colleges in Qatar

External links

• website