🇶🇦 18 institutions · 46,632 students
Qatar's universities — one national university, and a campus of branch campuses.
81% of Qatar's students are at public institutions, most of them at Qatar University. The rest study at Education City's branch campuses of foreign universities and at private colleges. These are the official counts for each.
Students at public institutions, 2022/23
37,560
Students at private institutions, 2022/23
9,072
Qatar University
24,587
53% of all students in the country
What isn't here, and why
No fees, no entry requirements and no programme lists are published as open data, and enrolment figures stop at 2022/23. Graduates are shown for private institutions only: a quarter of the public-sector graduate records name no institution.
“Non-Qatari” is not the same as “international student”: most of Qatar's residents are expatriates, and many non-Qatari students grew up in the country.
Public institutions
| Institution | Students, 2022/23 | Earliest figure |
|---|---|---|
| Qatar UniversityThe national university. Its figure is the sum of its colleges, postgraduate studies and course-only students as the statistics list them. | 24,587 | 17,606 in 2014/2015 |
| University of Doha for Science and TechnologyFormed in 2022 from the College of the North Atlantic – Qatar, which the statistics counted with private institutions until 2019/20. | 7,033 | 4,414 in 2020/2021 |
| Community College of Qatar | 5,537 | 3,523 in 2014/2015 |
| Qatar Aeronautical Academy | 264 | 419 in 2020/2021 |
| Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College | 139 | 51 in 2016/2017 |
Qatar University by college, 2022/23
- Arts and Sciences6,480 · 26%
- Business and Economics4,385 · 18%
- Engineering4,270 · 17%
- Education3,200 · 13%
- Law1,524 · 6%
- Postgraduate Studies in Qatar University1,412 · 6%
- Sharia and Islamic Studies1,333 · 5%
- Health Sciences623 · 3%
- Medicine520 · 2%
- Courses Study370 · 2%
- Pharmacy299 · 1%
- Dental Medicine115 · 0%
- Nursing56 · 0%
Rows as the statistics name them; “Courses Study” is students taking courses without a degree programme.
Private institutions and branch campuses
Students in 2022/23, with the Qatari / non-Qatari and female / male split, and graduates in the latest year reported.
| Institution | Students | Non-Qatari | Female | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education City UniversitiesOne combined figure for the branch campuses in Education City — the statistics do not separate Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Texas A&M, VCUarts, Weill Cornell Medicine and HEC Paris. | 3,042 | 53% | 64% | 691 (2023/24) |
| Lusail University | 2,604 | 51% | 56% | 218 (2023/24) |
| Hamad Bin Khalifa University | 916 | 72% | 56% | 251 (2023/24) |
| AFG College with the University of Aberdeen | 580 | 26% | 45% | 261 (2023/24) |
| Doha Institute for Graduate Studies | 451 | 59% | 62% | 200 (2023/24) |
| Oryx Universal College | 295 | 39% | 45% | 88 (2023/24) |
| Qatar Finance and Business Academy - Northumbria University | 295 | 25% | 58% | 164 (2023/24) |
| University of Calgary in Qatar | 291 | 97% | 86% | 60 (2023/24) |
| City University College | 205 | 67% | 46% | 29 (2023/24) |
| Al Rayyan International University College | 180 | 76% | 53% | 50 (2023/24) |
| Global Studies Institute | 85 | 58% | 58% | 1 (2023/24) |
| MIE - Savitribai Phule Pune University | 67 | 100% | 48% | — |
| University Foundation College | 61 | 52% | 46% | — |
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Source: National Planning Council – State of Qatar. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This analysis is based on data published by the National Planning Council of the State of Qatar under the CC BY 4.0 license. The data has been modified and/or processed by the user, and the results do not necessarily reflect the views of the data-producing entity. Changes: institution names reconciled across years, figures summed per institution, and Qatar University's colleges totalled by CollegeMatcher.