Urban Education Centers Are Creating a Generation of Global Students

The American system of higher education has long been the envy of foreign onlookers -- that's why the governments of many countries are inviting U.S. universities to open satellite campuses in their centers for higher learning, in hopes of adopting some of the U.S.'s best home-grown practices.

But it's not just the foreign countries who benefit from the deal. In what the New York Times called an "educational gold rush," U.S. universities are rushing to claim their turf in cities across the Middle East, East Asia and India.

Where these two aligning interests come together is at education hubs, such as Doha, Qatar's Education City. When most people think of the Persian Gulf states,…
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