Education City (Qatar Foundation)

Backed by more than US$7.5 billion in Qatar Foundation capital development on granted Al Rayyan land, Education City pairs Hamad Bin Khalifa University with bespoke branch buildings for Weill Cornell Medicine, Georgetown, Northwestern, CMU, Texas A&M, VCUarts, and HEC Paris. Education City takes #2 just behind Kuwait's Sabah Al-Salem University City (#1) and ahead of Columbia Manhattanville (#3): its US$7.5B+ build spans 12 km² of Pritzker-winning architecture—including Rem Koolhaas's Qatar National Library, Arata Isozaki's QNCC, Sidra Medicine, and battery-powered trams linked to Doha Metro.