DOHA: Qatar Foundation (QF) will mark the academic accomplishments of the class of 2015 at a convocation ceremony on May 5. This year’s event coincides with QF’s celebration of its 20th anniversary.
A record number of graduates, 672 — up 22 per cent from last year — will attend the celebrations at Qatar National Convention Centre, which will honour graduates from Hamad Bin Khalifa University and QF’s eight partner universities in Education City.
In 2014, 549 students were awarded degrees.
Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi, President of Qatar Foundation, said, “I am truly glad to see this number of graduates who will lead the nation’s march towards the future. Your hard work and dedication is contributing to QF’s dynamic cycle of education and research, starting as young as six-months right through to higher education programmes. After 20 years, Qatar Foundation and the State of Qatar can be proud of the high graduation rate with an ever increasing number of well-educated doctors, engineers and other specialists, who will play their role in supporting the Qatari job market and help advance Qatar towards fulfilling its National Vision 2030 with their outstanding skills.”
During this year’s convocation, QF will honour 122 graduates from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), which represents the largest percentage of graduates from the universities in Education City. This figure includes 80 graduates from Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, which provides master’s degrees in various fields of Islamic studies, and 14 graduates from the Translation and Interpretation Institute.
The convocation will honour the first batch of graduates from the Executive Master’s programme in Energy and Resources at HBKU, which consists of 28 students who have finished their studies in this multidisciplinary field, offered in partnership with Georgetown University, Texas A&M University at Qatar and HEC Paris.
The convocation will also honour graduates from the partner universities of Qatar Foundation, with 68 graduates from Virginia Commonwealth University in the fields of fashion design, graphic design and interior design, in addition to Master of Fine Arts in Design Studies.
From Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, 43 doctors are graduating. As for Texas A&M University at Qatar, 101 students are graduating with Bachelor’s Degrees in Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, or with a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering.
As for Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, with its illustrious expertise of a 100 years of academic excellence, pioneering research and university programmes, 106 students are graduating in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science and Biological Science.
A further 57 students are graduating from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, in a wide range of disciplines such as International Politics, Culture and Politics, and International Economics programmes which will allow them to pursue high positions in new careers.
Also 38 students are graduating from Northwestern University in Qatar, one of the most famous universities in the world in the field of journalism and communication. HEC Paris in Qatar, which offers high quality programmes to executive managers and directors in Qatar who are in the middle of their careers, is celebrating the graduation of 94 students. As for University College London in Qatar (UCL Qatar), it will have 43 students graduating in the fields of Museum studies and Archaeology, much needed to preserve Qatar’s heritage and maintain its world-class museums.THE PENINSULA
