Internationalization of Higher Education in the GCC Countries

... of the study, 167 university websites of the GCC countries were analyzed. Site analysis was limited to their English versions. The author made a table that shows the growing trend in the number of universities in the region. Until the 1990s in most GCC countries, there were only one or two state universities. Since the early 2000s, a significant increase concerning the number of both state and private universities has been observed. This boost, according to Julie Vardhan, cannot be explained only by population growth. The focus on the development ...