<p>Then all the more reason to probably take the free education at Qatar u, unless money is no object… Where is the pressure coming from to consider TAMU Qatar? </p>
<p>just want super good quality education…that it is. @sevmom </p>
<p>^^^ I don’t think a foreign branch campus would offer the same quality of education as the USA one. It just doesn’t have the same resources to do so.</p>
<p>TAMU (Texas) might be better than QU, but TAMU Qatar might not be all that different from QU. The “prestige” you’re looking for might not even exist. Not worth the $$$.</p>
<p>Because Qatar University has several engineering majors accredited by the US-based ABET (the same organization that accredits engineering majors at Texas A&M and other US universities), you can be assured that the education in these majors meets a relatively high minimum standard that ABET requires, suitable as a prerequisite for engineering professional licensing if you choose (or need, in the case of civil engineering) to do that. Yes, among ABET-accredited schools, there may be some that are better, or better for certain majors or subareas, but the difference is much narrower than can exist in many other subjects.</p>
<p>OP should check though with his family,just like most American kids do
. Qatar university sounds fine but there must be a reason US schools are going there. There may be a void they are filling,culturally,academically or economically. We could have sent our kids to schools for less with merit aid but opted to pay to send them to their instate schools at full pay. Some families even opt to pay for more expensive privates. Families make these kinds of decisions all the time so families in Qatar probably make similar decisions?</p>
<p>in general most students in qatar don’t go to TAMUQ because it’s literally super expensive compared to QU, and QU is getting better and better every year.My cousin’s sons graduated from QU recently and all of them are working now - if you are worried about employment for QU graduates, you gotta not because most of them get employed in great companies almost directly after graduation like Qatar Gas, Maersk, General Electric,…and there is even more opportunities for internship that extend to European countries -. </p>
<p>If QU is fine , and leads to good employment, what is the debate then? Why are you still considering TAMU Qatar?</p>
<p>^^^
He seems to think that the TAMU name is worth a whole bunch of money…it’s not.</p>
<p>^ That would really depend on how the name is valued in Qatar. In the US it wouldn’t make a difference but it might over there. It’s a good idea to check with parents/employers to see if there is a difference.</p>
<p>^^
True, but the difference would have to be significant. A tiny increase in salary can’t be justified by paying $200k vs free. </p>
<p>Are you considering TAMU Qatar or TAMU in the US? Are you considering any American university?
Does Qatar U have any requirement (ie., moral, religious) that you’re uncomfortable with that would make going to another university helpful to you personally?</p>
<p>TAMU Qatar.The thing is that TAMU teach one computer engineering course every year for EE majors but QU don’t. Also, TAMU teaches what I want almost exactly - EE + Computer Engineering + processors and computer architecture + how industry work and many great electives- , but in QU the computer engineering is separated from the EE and you can take few CE courses as electives in last 2 years. @MYOS1634 </p>
<p>TAMU is just a good state public school. It is not prestigious here.</p>
<p>@gearmom so it doesn’t really affect me later on graduate admission for prestigious universities like MIT or CalTech ? </p>
<p>^
No, I know a Bama eng’g grad from last May who is now at Stanford working on his PhD.</p>