KUN0136 4 GEN 0323 KUWAIT /KUNA-MMP4 EDU-GEORGETOWN-QATAR Georgetown University to open School of Foreign Service Campus in Qatar NEW YORK, May 17 (KUNA) -- The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and US Georgetown University on Tuesday agreed to open a campus of Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar, next August. The School is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in the Study of international affairs. The agreement was signed by the Qatari Foundation's Chairperson Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned and Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. "Georgetown was our best choice to assist in developing the potential of the diplomats of the future. This is fully consistent with our vision of realizing human potential and building bridges between people," Sheikha Mozah said at the signing ceremony in a New York Hotel. "Georgetown is excited about the opportunity to extend its international presence to an important region of the world. For more than 200 years we have been educating students to be leaders engaged in the world and a campus in Qatar will be another way of enhancing our mission," DeGioia said. The campus will offer an undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree, with a major in International Politics, for approximately 25 students per year, with the intention to expand to include at least 100 students over four years as new classes are admitted. Four other US research-based universities have branch campuses in Qatar Education City. They are Virginia Commonwealth University, teaching art and design, Weill-Cornell Medical College, Texas AM University, teaching engineering, and Carnegie Mellon University, teaching computer science and business. All costs associated with these five branch campuses are being borne fully by the Qatar Foundation, a private non-profit organization founded in 1995. (end) sj.mm KUNA 172031 May 05NNNN