Last week GU-Q welcomed the Class of 2029, which includes 160 students, representing nearly 50 countries, almost half of whom are Qatari, with students joining us for the first time from Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Niger, and Turkmenistan.
This diversity boosts our global reputation and strengthens the university’s position as a unique centre in the Middle East for political science and humanities education, all part of a world-class curriculum.
Through our ongoing integration with Georgetown University’s Washington, DC, campus, we will this year be joined by six visiting faculty and four doctoral fellows from Washington, DC. They will be teaching here, along with visiting scholars from the universities of Oxford, Indiana, and King’s College. This fall, eight visiting fellows, some of whom are practitioners, will arrive to offer intensive courses of one credit hour each.
GU-Q’s 2025 Convocation was an opportunity to meet with new students and draw their attention to the fact that they are inheriting a legacy established long before they came to this world, bound by a common call to justice and service. This campus and what is being offered will reshape the students’ personalities marking the beginning of a new phase of their lives.
We are all looking forward to an academic year full of vitality, vibrancy and tangible achievements, in one of the world’s most ambitious education systems, Education City, made possible by the vision of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser and Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad al-Thani, who have made Qatar Foundation an engine of human potential through their leadership.
Safwan M Masri, Dean of Georgetown University, Qatar
