DI master's students’ graduation on May 18

The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) has announced the start of preparations for the graduation ceremony of the seventh cohort of master’s students on May 18 in the St Regis Doha.Of the total of 196 graduates, 129 are from the School Social Sciences and Humanities and 67 are from the School of Economics, Administration and Public Policies.Dr Ibrahim Freihat, dean of Student Affairs, said that the DI has adopted, since its inception, international academic standards of an advanced level in all the disciplines and thereby qualify the master’s degree graduates to move on to doctoral disciplines in other prestigious international universities.Eman al-Sulaiti, executive director of the Administrative and Financial Division, stated that the DI celebrated the graduation of six cohorts already.Since its inception, the total number of graduates has reached 1,040 with 18 internationally accredited master's programmes that the DI offers.The DI also offers eight programmes in the PhD track: Development Economics, Public Administration, Politics and International Relations, Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography, History, Sociology and Anthropology, Media Studies, and Critical Security Studies.