Northwestern University

Northwestern University in Qatar is a multidisciplinary community of evidence-based storytellers focused on the Global South. Driven by our core values of excellence, community, collaboration, and sustainability, we are a distinctive global institution that delivers an exceptional education in media arts, sciences, and crafts. Positioned at the forefront of knowledge production and digital innovation, we amplify Northwestern University’s global impact in research, teaching, and service through our partnership with Qatar Foundation, contributing to Qatar’s rise into a knowledge society.

Core Values
Excellence
We are committed to the highest standards, and believe that academic integrity, intellectual rigor, independent inquiry, and free expression catalyze excellence. We strive to expand intellectual, creative, and professional boundaries in pursuit of excellence.

Community
We are committed to the growth of the whole person, and believe that our pluralism, mutual care, rational dialogue, civic engagement, and a global outlook, anchor our identity and belonging. We speak with an authentic voice to all constituents.

Collaboration
We are committed to shared governance, teamwork, and peer-mentoring, through which we build a resilient institution, make decisions at the most appropriate level, resolve challenges, accomplish our mission, and collectively elevate ourselves and others.

Sustainability
We are committed to human, institutional, and environmental sustainability, to the careful stewardship of resources, and to building a forward-looking institution; we believe in maximizing the positive impact of our work on one another, our university, and the earth.