Texas A&M at Qatar Mission Statement

Texas A&M University is dedicated to the discovery, development, communication, and application of knowledge in a wide range of academic and professional fields. Its mission of providing the highest quality undergraduate and graduate programs is inseparable from its mission of developing new understandings through research and creativity. It prepares students to assume roles in leadership, responsibility, and service to society. Texas A&M assumes as its historic trust the maintenance of freedom of inquiry and an intellectual environment nurturing the human mind and spirit. It welcomes and seeks to serve persons of all racial, ethnic, and geographic groups, women and men alike, as it addresses the needs of an increasingly diverse population and a global economy. In the twenty-first century, Texas A&M University seeks to assume a place of preeminence among public universities while respecting its history and traditions.

The mission of the Qatar campus is to embrace the University’s traditional goals of teaching, research, and service and to replicate the world-class undergraduate engineering program offered at the main campus. Texas A&M University at Qatar will only realize the highest quality undergraduate programs through inseparable connections to its own programs in research and graduate studies. In all of its efforts, Texas A&M University at Qatar will ensure that it is contributing significantly to the international knowledge and research needs of Qatar and the region. Moreover, Texas A&M University at Qatar is strongly committed to establishing an interface within the community that will assist in improving the lives of the people of Qatar.