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The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies is a
higher education Tertiary education (higher education, or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational schools ...
institute in
Doha Doha ( ) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. It ...
,
Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...
. Its first student enrollment was in the autumn/fall semester of the 2015/2016 academic year. The Doha Institute is intended as a graduate studies academy; students enrolled in its programs are eligible to receive master's degrees in a variety of fields related to the social sciences and humanities.


Establishment

The Doha Institute was born of an initiative of the
Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) is an Arab research institute with particular interest in the social sciences, applied social sciences, regional history and geostrategic affairs. To this effect, the ACRPS coordinates and de ...
, also located in Doha, which announced the formal launch of the Doha Institute in 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2014. According to its own website, the Doha Institute will be divided into a number of administrative teaching units: a School of Social Sciences and Humanities; a School of Public Administration and Development Economics; and a Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. In addition, the Doha Institute includes the Doha Dictionary of the Arabic Language, an initiative aimed at creating an accessible dictionary of Arabic root words which also traces the etymology of Arabic root words over two thousand years of history. One of the institute's stated aims is to enhance and encourage the use of the
Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
language as a medium for academic instruction.


See also

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List of universities and colleges in Qatar This is a list of universities, colleges and branch campuses of foreign universities in Qatar. Qatari institutions * University of Doha for Science & Technology * Community College of Qatar * Doha Institute for Graduate Studies * Lusail Univer ...
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Qatar University Qatar University (; transliterated: Jami'at Qatar) is a public research university located on the northern outskirts of Doha, Qatar. It is the only public university in the country. The university hosts twelve colleges – Arts and Sciences, Bu ...


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