NY Times on U.S. Universities Overseas Campuses

[sead43]

The article focuses on NYU and George Mason, but Georgetown's SFS-Qatar is mentioned briefly, and the report is just as relevant for us as for any institution involved.

www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/education/10global.html?pagewanted=1&hp

[reformation]

Its interesting that I think that SFS-Q is struggling to find enough quality students. I belive that are also worried that the Northwestern journalism school will steal away some of the best students from the SFS-Q's applicant pool.

These overseas projects do tend to be moneymakers and in general good projects for the US univ's.

[CWS]

Feb 18, 2008 21:20:35 GMT -5 reformation said:

Its interesting that I think that SFS-Q is struggling to find enough quality students. I belive that are also worried that the Northwestern journalism school will steal away some of the best students from the SFS-Q's applicant pool.

I think the particular concern is with Qatari students. There is an expectation that a certain percentage of the student population (50%?) will be Qatar citizens. Given that the pool of Qatari citizens is only something like 200,000 (?), that's a tall order.

Previously, SFS-Q was the only humanities program in Education City, but the addition of Northwestern changes that, with the result that some students who might have previously attended SFS-Q (just because it was the only program offering a humanities program), might now decide to attend the Northwestern program instead.