TAMUQ Information

Texas A&M University and the Qatar Foundation entered into a 10-year agreement in 2003 to bring engineering education and research to Qatar. Through this agreement, the University established a branch campus which offers undergraduate degree programs in chemical, electrical, mechanical and petroleum engineering.

The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development is a non-profit organization founded in 1995, by the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani to support educational reform and provide community service. Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned is Chairperson of the Qatar Foundation. They provide funding for the campus facilities, academic programs, and research centers.

The Texas A&M branch campus along with Carnegie-Mellon University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Georgetown School of Foreign Service are part of the 2,500-acre multi-institutional campus known as Education City. This city is Her Highness’ vision of the prototypical 21st century University, formed by inviting various institutions which offer the best programs in their chosen fields, creating a vision which focuses on collaboration and integration of research in higher educational programs.

Research is a key component of the Qatar campus. Two interdisciplinary research centers will be established to address production and utilization of natural resources and environmental sustainability. Texas A&M will also develop engineering graduate programs in the near future.

Just like the TAMU College Station campus, TAMUQ classes are coeducational and taught in English. Texas A&M is committed to ensure high-quality education at both the College Station and Qatar campuses.

TAMUQ Mission

Texas A&M University is dedicated to the discovery, development, communication, and application of knowledge in a wide range of academic and professional fields. Its mission of providing the highest quality undergraduate and graduate programs is inseparable from its mission of developing new understandings through research and creativity. It prepares students to assume roles in leadership, responsibility, and service to society. Texas A&M assumes as its historic trust the maintenance of freedom of inquiry and an intellectual environment nurturing the human mind and spirit. It welcomes and seeks to serve persons of all racial, ethnic, and geographic groups, women and men alike, as it addresses the needs of an increasingly diverse population and a global economy. In the twenty-first century, Texas A&M University seeks to assume a place of preeminence among public universities while respecting its history and traditions.

The mission of the Qatar campus is to embrace the University’s traditional goals of teaching, research, and service and to replicate the world-class undergraduate engineering program offered at the main campus.  Texas A&M University at Qatar will realize the highest quality undergraduate programs through inseparable connections to its own programs in research and graduate studies. In all of its efforts, Texas A&M University at Qatar will ensure that it is contributing significantly to the international knowledge and research needs of Qatar and the region. Moreover, Texas A&M University at Qatar is strongly committed to establishing an interface within the community that will assist in improving the lives of the people of Qatar.