U.S. Campuses Abroad

Congress asks university officials for pros and cons of the "globalization of American universities," and its effects on U.S. competitiveness.

The typical model for establishing branch campuses abroad is to offer specialized programs or schools. In Qatar, for instance, Carnegie Mellon University offers business administration and computer science, Cornell a medical school and Georgetown a School of Foreign Service. Also in Qatar, Texas A&M offers engineering, and Virginia Commonwealth art and design.

Maryland college's payment of per-student fee to contractor in Taiwan raises questions about when practices unacceptable in the U.S. are permissible (or not) abroad.

University will build complete academic program in watershed management in Ethiopia.

Amid the clamor for branches of American colleges abroad, some of the most ambitious plans for the People's Republic are as yet, and perhaps even permanently, unrealized.

A university prepares to leave its historic home and move to an entirely new, $400 million campus.

Investors -- and regulators -- discuss the profit motive and emerging models in private higher education, growing worldwide.

From a surprising source: Under new agreement, Montana State U. might design and offer two-year degree programs in Abu Dhabi.

To head American University of Iraq, officials picked someone who resigned previous presidency amid harassment allegations. His tenure in Iraq was short-lived.

Duke's business school announces a plan to establish a global network of campuses, all with multiple programs -- and to bring the rest of the university on board.