Apart from imparting quality higher education, Qatar University is fast becoming a center of excellence in research making its mark not only in the Middle East but also at the global level.
With 17 research centers covering all subjects related to national priorities, Qatar University has done tremendous job to serve the country and the nation. In the times when scientific research and excellence have become the real forces behind development and progress in all dimensions, Qatar University’s achievements in fields of scientific research deserve a huge applause.
Qatar University has made great leaps recently in the field of scientific research and the rate of research increased 442 percent in the last eight years.
The growth in the research sector in recent years has resulted from the university’s focus on establishing specialized research centers, including the establishment of 17 research center that covered all issues related to the national priorities. These issues included traffic safety, healthcare, gas treatment, population surveys and conservation of the marine environment among other issues.
Qatar University has confirmed its growing role as a research engine in the region by launching a research road map in 2014 and setting its research priorities for the next five years.
The fields the university has said it will focus on was energy, environment, resource sustainability, social change, identity and population, healthcare, information and communication technology.
In May this year, a computing research centre at Qatar University College of Engineering (QU-CENG) won a grant for a 3-year project to build a platform to enhance the cyber-security of smart grid distribution networks. The KINDI Center for Computing Research (KINDI) at QU-CENG won a $1.82m grant from Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).
In Aug 2018, Qatar University (QU) was ranked 48th in Telecommunication Engineering subject in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2018, making a significant leap on its last year’s ranking, where it had been ranked in the range of 51-75 best universities.
Qatar University (QU) made a huge improvement in the Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings by advancing its position from 75 in 2017 to 35 in the 2018 rankings.
Qatar University also enjoys the honour of being ranked first in the international outlook indicator in the overall Times Higher Education World University Rankings list (THE-WUR) since 2015 and third among universities in the Arab world in THE Arab World Rankings 2018.
Qatar University (QU) in March 2018 was chosen as one of the top 400 universities worldwide in electrical and electronic engineering in Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) World University Ranking by subject.
