Education, Students & Private Schooling

Directed and controlled by the Ministry of Education and more so by the Supreme Education Council, the education system in Qatar is considered to be one of the most diverse in the world with schools originating from all over the globe.

Primary education is obligatory for all children but is free in all public schools. Most expatriates and some Qatari nationals tend to send their children to either international schools or private schools and these will tend to use the IB, UK and CBSE Curricula, or a combination. Popular schools include Qatar Academy, Doha College, Doha Academy, MES Indian School, The Cambridge School and the American School of Doha.

Additionally a multitude of prestigious universities have satellite campuses all over the country, especially in Doha and especially in Education City. These include United States campuses for Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Commonwealth and Texas A&M Universities, Canadian campuses for the Universities of Calgary-Qatar and the North Atlantic-Qatar, the British campus University College London and the Dutch campus Stenden University.