Luiss University, one of Europe’s fastest-growing universities (headquartered in Rome) offers education with its international, interdisciplinary and innovative approach and plans to explore educational opportunities in Qatar, said a top official.Speaking to The Peninsula, Andrea Prencipe, Rector of Luiss University said: “We are committed to fostering academic innovation, encouraging students to take on an active role in their educational paths with focus on Social Sciences. We cover Economics, Management, Political Science and Law. Over 60 percent of our programmes are taught in English and we entertain over 300 collaborations with many universities in North America, Europe, South East Asia, Africa, and Gulf area.”“We are accredited in different countries and have students from GCC also. As an institution we are accredited in Oman, Bahrain, UAE and are in the process of getting accreditation at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Qatar. We are recognised and accredited in most of the GCC countries and the students coming from these countries are eligible for governmental scholarship to study,” he added.   “We want to bring here the message that there is an English speaking university in Rome which is high ranked and willing to engage and receive students from Qatar and the region.”Speaking about ties with Qatari institutions, Raffaele Marchetti, Deputy Rector for Internationalization, Luiss University, noted that Luiss University is developing an increasing intense relationship with the area. “We have a strategic interest in developing our partnership and engagement with the Gulf and have a number of partnerships with different countries. We want to be present, active and integrated into the activities and locational space in the Gulf. Marchetti added, “In Qatar specifically we have been in dialogue with the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) to develop cooperation and discuss the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and law with them.”He pointed out that they are interested to develop educational cooperation between Qatar and Italy to establish partnership with Qatar University and Qatar Foundation. Speaking about Luiss University being ranked by QS Global Ranking 2023 with 14th position worldwide for Political and International Sciences and placed among top 50 for Economic/Business and Law, Marchetti noted that this was due to heavy investment made in elevating the quality of their research and researchers.“The fact that we have climbed over the past five years over 300 positions in the ranking is to do with our education approach. Although we focus on Social Science, we do pursue both research and teaching using an interdisciplinary approach. We try to find synergies across Social Sciences but also, we have recently introduced a research team in AI whose aim is to use AI approaches, knowledge, competencies across our programmes.”“Our graduates climb very quickly in the organisation hierarchy which means that not only our students are job ready but they are also future ready to go with the trends that characterise their professions, develop and devise new approaches to solve problems,” he added. One of their flagship programme is a triple degree in Business Administration which is a unique global programme at the bachelor level. This was created by the collaboration between Luiss, George Washington and Renmin University in Beijing which allows students to study in Rome, Beijing, and Washington and get three degrees. (ICE Doha)

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