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Northwestern University in Qatar is Northwestern University’s 12th school and only overseas campus. Based in Education City in Doha, Qatar, NU-Q is a media-centric institution with undergraduate degree programs in communication and journalism as well as liberal arts instruction.

As a member of the Qatar Foundation, it collaborates with such sister institutions as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Virginia Commonwealth, and is part of what has been called “one of the most exciting educational collaborations in the world today.” NU-Q benefits from the cooperation and guidance of the university’s U.S.-based School of Communication, Medill Northwestern, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The 2,500-acre Education City campus has exceptional facilities in sweeping modern buildings by world-class architects. NU-Q is currently housed in the Carnegie Mellon building with its own new quarters (pictured), on line for 2014. NU-Q has its own state-of-the-art digital media, broadcast and film facilities in a dedicated studio building for information and entertainment productions. Having graduated its second class of undergraduates and now heading into its fifth year, NU-Q is planning to extend and strengthen its instructional and research activities. NU-Q’s challenge is to establish a distinctive school of the highest quality in concert with other world-class institutions to assist in creating a talent bench and leadership cadre for media and entertainment industries and other communications enterprises and institutions in Qatar, the Middle East, and the global community. In a venue where full academic freedom is guaranteed, the goal is the advancement of freedom of expression in a rapidly changing part of the world, building on the legacy of Northwestern University, with undergraduate degree programs offered by two of its most renowned professional schools. Few locations in the world today are more conducive to teaching excellence and innovative research, which can combine to make a difference in the lives of individuals, institutions, and a transitional society.