Multinational Universities in the Modern World and their Mission

Abstract

The author presents and describes various kinds of multinational universities. These include the national universities in multi‐ethnic developing countries, the universities that have been created in developed countries to serve large numbers of foreign students, and the universities, that, although created in the developed countries for the nationals of these countries, have ended up attracting large numbers of foreign students owing to their prestige. Then, evoking the role of universities and education in general as an aid to the foreign policies of given countries, the author concludes his paper with a presentation of the mission and the functioning of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.