About Northwestern Qatar

Northwestern University in Qatar is a multidisciplinary community of evidence-based storytellers focused on the Global South. Driven by our core values of excellence, community, collaboration, and sustainability, we are a distinctive global institution that delivers an exceptional education in media arts, sciences, and crafts. Positioned at the forefront of knowledge production and digital innovation, we amplify Northwestern University’s global impact in research, teaching, and service through our partnership with Qatar Foundation, contributing to Qatar’s rise into a knowledge society.

Core Values

Excellence

We are committed to the highest standards, and believe that academic integrity, intellectual rigor, independent inquiry, and free expression catalyze excellence. We strive to expand intellectual, creative, and professional boundaries in pursuit of excellence.

Community

We are committed to the growth of the whole person, and believe that our global diversity, mutual care, rational and inclusive dialogue, civic engagement, and a global outlook, anchor our identity and belonging. We speak with an authentic voice to all constituents.

Collaboration

We are committed to shared governance, teamwork, and peer-mentoring, through which we build a resilient institution, make decisions at the most appropriate level, resolve challenges, accomplish our mission, and collectively elevate ourselves and others.

Sustainability

We are committed to human, institutional, and environmental sustainability, to the careful stewardship of resources, and to building a forward-looking institution; we believe in maximizing the positive impact of our work on one another, our university, and the earth.

Dean & CEO

Marwan M. Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is a scholar of global communication and an authority on Arab media, culture, and politics. An award-winning author and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Kraidy’s research centers around the relationship between culture and geopolitics, theories of identity and modernity, and global media systems and industries. He is also an expert on the Middle East and fluent in Arabic.

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Our People

We're proud of our diverse community.

Northwestern Qatar students, faculty, staff represent nearly 60 nationalities. Our graduates join a growing network of creative, enterprising Northwestern Qatar alumni, as well as tens of thousands of Northwestern alumni in leadership and creative roles around the world.

Our home in Education City

Northwestern Qatar is part of the Qatar Foundation's Education City, a destination for artists and scientists, entrepreneurs and educators, researchers, and innovators.

We are one of six U.S. universities in Education City, the Qatar Foundation’s flagship initiative, a unique model of academic and research excellence, pioneering a new approach to multidisciplinary, global education and enabling breakthroughs that benefit Qatar and the rest of the world.

Our campus in Qatar is educating the next generation of journalists and media professionals.

Rankings

Northwestern University ranks among the top universities in the world.

#6
National University (U.S.)

U.S. News & World Report, 2026

#15
College/University

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Ed, 2025

#15
Best Value School

U.S. News & World Report, 2025

#31
World University

Times Higher Education, 2025

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