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Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old Qatar campus by 2028, with board members noting “heightened instability" in the Middle East as a major reason to reconsider its presence in the country. Thursday's vote by Texas A&M's Board of Regents also came after the school had faced criticism over its Qatar campus from a Washington, D.C.-based think tank after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy questioned the school's partnership with the state-run Qatar Foundation, and security re...

Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old campus in Qatar by 2028

Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old campus in Qatar by 2028.

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Texas A&M University will phase out its Qatar campus and close the doors to the branch campus by 2028. Day-to-day operations and campus services will not immediately change.