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The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies is a
higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...
institute in
Doha Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') 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, it is home to most of the coun ...
,
Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...
. Its first student enrollment was in 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 (can also be referred to by its acronyms as the ACRPS) is an Arab research institute with particular interest in the social sciences, applied social sciences, regional history and geostrategic affair ...
, also located in Doha. The ACRPS 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 Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...
language as a medium for academic instruction.


Students

The Doha Institute enrolled its first class of students in the autumn/fall semester of 2015.


See also

* Qatar University


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Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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