I'm not quite sure what I think of it. Is the 'men-only' caveat included in the deal with Berkeley or not?
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KAUST has formed five-year partnerships with three major United States institutions, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. It has also partenered with Imperial College London under the Academic Excellence Alliance Partnership. Under the agreements, the mechanical engineering department at Berkeley, the computer-science department and Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford, and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas will help pick the faculty and develop the curriculum for KAUST. Each American school will receive $25 million or more, consisting of a $10 million gift, $10 million for research on their home campus and $5 million for research at KAUST, as well as administrative costs.
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So I can see why Berkeley went after this.
But wow, the university will be established in 2009, and will have an endowment larger than any American university except HYPSM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University