About the Organizers

This nine-month, part-time course is offered in Doha as a partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and Qatar Science & Technology Park. Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world. In 2006 the Wall Street Journal ranked its MBA program third best internationally.

In 1972 Carnegie Mellon became one of the first academic institutions to offer formal courses in entrepreneurship.  These programs were consolidated in 1990 when Donald Jones, a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, endowed the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship within the Tepper School of Business.  The center was soon recognized as one of the world's top entrepreneurship centers and has been offering exceptional graduate, undergraduate and executive education programs ever since. Thousands of successful businessmen and businesswomen - including Sunil Wadhwani, founder of the $400 million iGate Corporation - have graduated from the center.

Carnegie Mellon Qatar teamed up with Qatar Science & Technology Park to offer the program in Doha because they are a home for technology-based companies from around the world, and an incubator of start-up enterprises. Qatar Science & Technology Park provide premises, services and support programs that help organizations to develop and commercialize their technology. By bringing research and business together, Qatar Science & Technology Park is spurring the development of Qatar's knowledge economy.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar and Qatar Science & Technology Park are both members of Qatar Foundation, and located at Education City in Doha.

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