BU in Dubai?
Monday, March 3, 2008 by Rob
While slogging through my gulfnews listings today I found an article titled "Boston University to set up campus in Dubai".
I find it sort of interesting that big campuses are now setting up shop in different parts of the world. For instance Qatar has Cornell, Virgina Commonwealth, Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Carnegie Melon to name a few. While I understand that setting up a new campus is a great way for schools to extend their reach throughout the world, as well as make some extra money, I'm wondering how the students degrees are received in other parts of the world. For example could I go to Cornell University in Qatar, go through their medical program, graduate and be ready for the medical field in the US, UK, Australia ect? Or are these students paying for big name schools just so they can say "hey check out my degree I went to Cornell in Qatar"
I find it sort of interesting that big campuses are now setting up shop in different parts of the world. For instance Qatar has Cornell, Virgina Commonwealth, Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Carnegie Melon to name a few. While I understand that setting up a new campus is a great way for schools to extend their reach throughout the world, as well as make some extra money, I'm wondering how the students degrees are received in other parts of the world. For example could I go to Cornell University in Qatar, go through their medical program, graduate and be ready for the medical field in the US, UK, Australia ect? Or are these students paying for big name schools just so they can say "hey check out my degree I went to Cornell in Qatar"
I'm personally a little biased towards the schools in North America. As much as it sucks paying for your schooling you can go anywhere in the world and say I've been to Harvard and people instantly recognize it. Anyways back on subject here, I would be interested to see how well degrees from overseas universities translate in the US or UK and in terms of competition how those coming from overseas big name universities fare in competition with those that went to the same schools in the US.
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George Mason also has a Ras Al Khaimah campus: http://rak.gmu.edu/
Their front page says the US school issues all paperwork for the campus.