VCU Qatar is the Qatar campus of the prestigious Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Established in 1998 through a partnership with Qatar Foundation, we offer students the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, and painting & printmaking, a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in design.
Located in Doha, Qatar's capital city, VCU Qatar is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art & Design, The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. The current student body represents a diverse range of nationalities, with students from more than 40 different nationalities.
VCU Qatar was the first campus established in Education City and has since been joined by Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Carnegie-Mellon University, Northwestern University, HEC Paris, and University College London.
In 2010, VCU Qatar more than doubled its facilities through a major expansion project. The expansion has allowed for the integration of the University's undergraduate and graduate programs under one roof, the connection of the research and entrepreneurship offices with curricular programs, and the expansion of technical spaces to support all forms of visualization and research with a media lab, digital fabrication lab, printmaking studios, photography studio, an expanded library, and the first materials library in the region.
The University hosts the biennial international design conference Tasmeem Doha and the biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Islamic Art Symposium, attracting globally recognized designers, artists, and academics while fostering sustainable, university-community partnerships that enhance the educational, economic and cultural vitality of Qatar.
VCUQatar has substantial involvement with Qatar's emerging design industries and is a significant catalyst for that growth. We have established ourselves as a center of excellence for education and research in art and design.
VCUQatar graduates are pursuing successful careers within the government, nonprofit and private industries in Qatar and worldwide. Many of our graduates have established their businesses, thereby contributing to the development of Qatar's small and medium enterprise culture.
VCU Qatar strives to contribute to the vitality of human, social, economic, and environmental development in Qatar and the region through creative innovation, expression, and collaboration. VCU Qatar cultivates a dynamic intercultural environment of diverse research, learning, and community engagement that propels the holistic development of exemplary artists, designers, and scholars to build vibrant communities and diversified economies.
VCU Qatar values collaboration, experimentation, innovation, relevance, and diversity. VCU Qatar is creative, critical, dynamic, curious, and original. VCU Qatar Accreditation with
- National Association of Schools of Art & Design
- The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- Council for Interior Design Accreditation
VCU arts Qatar is committed to "your journey," to developing you as an artist, designer or historian, and scholar, to cultivating a dynamic, and engaging you in an intercultural learning and research environment.
VCU arts Qatar offers you so much more than only education or preparation for a career. Students leave VCU arts Qatar with the practical, professional, and personal skills needed to make a life in the arts. That is why our programs emphasize both doing and knowing. It is why the majority of our faculty are working artists. It is why we encourage students to take advantage of many academic and intellectual opportunities.
VCU Arts is ranked the #1 public university arts & design program in the USA (US News and World Report.) - the highest ranking ever achieved by a public university school of arts and design.
VCU arts Qatar offers you a scholarly climate. It inspires creativity, the free and open exchange of ideas, critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, freedom of expression, and intellectual integrity.
VCU arts, Qatar, is globally diverse. Our 66 faculty and administration staff represent 15 countries, our alumni (more than 500), and current students (more than 360) represent more than 40 countries/nationalities.
VCU arts Qatar values collaboration, experimentation, innovation, relevancy, and diversity. VCU arts Qatar is creative, critical, dynamic, curious, and original. A VCU arts Qatar/VCU arts degree gives our alumni credibility in the world of galleries, graduate schools, artistic directors, and employers. Our graduates are known for professionalism, skill, and readiness to enter their desired field as artists or art historians. With more than 500 alumni from 44 countries, VCU arts Qatar's alumni body is growing and flourishing.
Since our first graduating class in 2002, our graduates are working in Qatar, the region, and worldwide. They are working in the public and private sectors, with some having joined family businesses or starting their own. Our alumni are employed at companies and organizations such as Ashghal, Anti Doping Lab Qatar, Aspire, Doha Film Institute, Enterprise Qatar, International Bank of Qatar, Ministry of Civil Defense, Ministry of Interior, Msheireb Property, Museum of Islamic Art, Museum Authority, Ooredoo, Qatar 2015 Handball Committee, Qatar Airways, Qatar Foundation, Qatar University, Qatari Diar Real Estate, RasGas, Woqood, Total Qatar, Salam Enterprise, Private Engineering Office, and many others.
Other alumni have gone on to graduate degree programs at prestigious institutions such as Royal College of Art (London, UK), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar), HEC Paris (France), University College London (UK), New York University (USA), Rhode Island School of Design (USA), Colorado State University (USA), University of Edinburgh's College of the Arts (UK), University of Vermont (USA), University of Nottingham (UK), and Virginia Commonwealth University (USA) and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar.
VCU arts Qatar is the Qatar campus of the prestigious Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) School of the Arts, located in Richmond's historic city, in the state of Virginia, USA. Established in 1838, VCU's academic rigor, reputation, and traditions have withstood the test of time! VCU arts Qatar was the first campus established in Education City Doha - established in 1998 through a partnership with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development.
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