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Georgetown Qatar is better known as the Georgetown University of Foreign Service Qatar (SFS-Qatar). Georgetown Qatar is based on a long university tradition of scholarships and international engagement in the Middle East. Georgetown Qatar is located in the Education City of Qatar. This campus offers a Bachelor's degree in Science in Foreign Service or a BSFS degree.
The Georgetown University in Qatar offers a four year degree course in the international affairs. The main campus of the Georgetown University-School of Foreign Service has its main campus in Washington DC. The curriculum of the core liberal arts is based on Georgetown's Jesuit traditions of service. The main aim of the Georgetown University Qatar is to educate the citizen leaders and cross cultural understanding.
The main focus of the students at the Qatar campus is international politics, including the workings of the government, literature, economics, theology and philosophy in all the sectors namely the public, private as well as the non-profit ones.
Georgetown University was opened in 2005 in the Education city of Qatar along with four other US Universities. This institution is helped by the Qatar Foundation in case of funding. Georgetown University, along with the Washington-based embassies from the nations of the region, Jesuit and Catholic leaders, business leaders and other academic institutions suggested an opening of Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar in 2002 which will retain its quality education system and its Catholic-Jesuit identity.
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