Along with other U.S. campuses in Education City, a campus in Qatar has a certain reputational risk associated with it. Not only do they risk devaluing the degrees of their U.S. campus, but the campus also ties them to a regime with extensive critics and foreign policy that runs contrary to that of the United States. Qatar's ties to terrorist and extremist groups such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrible human rights record, and World Cup 2022 corruption allegations have drawn heavy criticism to US universities there.