Are American Universities Selling Their Students To Qatar?

Over the past two decades, the question of whether American universities are compromising their values and, more importantly, the futures of their students by deepening ties with foreign powers has become increasingly relevant. Nowhere is this more evident than in the growing influence of Qatar—a small but enormously wealthy Gulf state—on America’s higher education system.

The issue is not simply about money flowing into university coffers. It is about the direction of American academia, the shaping of young minds, and whether institutions founded to serve the United States are instead selling out their students to foreign regimes that do not share America’s values of freedom, liberty, and democracy.

This article examines how Qatar has established a foothold in American higher education,