DOHA: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has announced the new list of universities approved for the Amiri Scholarship Program.
The list of approved universities shared on Ministry’s website consisting of 29 most prestigious universities of the world including University of Oxford, Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Pennsylvania, University of Tokyo among others.
Director of High Education Institute, Dr. Khalid Al Hurr said the announcement aims to encourage Qataris to enroll at world top-ranked universities, paid for by the country, to get the best education and contribute to the national economy after graduation. On adding new universities and eliminating others, Dr. Al Hurr said the old list was prepared and announced in September 2011 according the to the global university rankings then.
Since then, he added, there have been changes in the rankings, prompting the ministry to update the list according to the latest rankings.
He said that announcing the list at this time is the first step in marketing the Amiri Scholarship Program. The Amiri Scholarship Program is a national comprehensive program, where enrolled citizens receive financial and non-financial advantages distinguishing this program from others in the country.
The list includes international prestigious universities in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Japan. Universities approved for the Amiri Scholarship Program include Browns University, US; California Institute of Technology, US; Columbia University, US; Cornell University, US & Qatar; Dartmouth University, US; Duke University, US; Georgetown University, Main campus in the US only; Harvard University, US; Imperial College London, UK; Johns Hopkins University, US; King’s College London, UK; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US; McGill University, Canada; New York University, US.
Other universities approved for Amiri Scholarship Program are Northwestern University, Main campus in the US only; Princeton University, US; Rice University, US; Stanford University, US; University College London, UK; University of British Columbia, Canada; University of California, Berkeley, US; University of California, Los Angeles, US; University of Cambridge, UK; University of Chicago, US; University of Melbourne, Australia; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, US; University of Oxford, UK; University of Pennsylvania, US; University of Tokyo, Japan.
