The Association of American International Colleges and Univer-sities (AAICU) was founded in 1971 as a leadership organization representing American institutions of higher education over-seas. These colleges and universities are among America’s most important cultural and educational assets throughout the world. Conditions for full membership to AAICU include institutional autonomy, an independent board of trustees and accreditation by a major recognized U.S. accrediting authority.
AAICU institutions provide privileged spaces of intellectual interchange, academic freedom and responsibility, where inde-pendent learning and democratic values are allowed to flourish. Its graduates are thus prepared for the rapidly changing needs of the 21st century.
In addition to educating the future leaders in their host coun-tries, AAICU institutions also provide thousands of American students with the critically needed skills required for U.S. global competence. While students are offered programs in the histo-ries, cultures and languages of the host counthisto-ries, they are also provided much more: an ability to understand and appreciate other cultures, and an opportunity to develop relationships with people from different countries that will serve the United States well as it seeks to forge global partnerships.
AAICU institutions have strong roots in their respective host countries and enjoy wide recognition in their international settings. They are therefore capable of bridging cultures and fostering dialogue among nations within the framework of the American liberal arts tradition. They are both expressions of and vehicles for the growing international acceptance of the U.S. system of higher education and the increasing importance of En-glish as the language of international communication. In the con-temporary knowledge-driven world, with its global economy and trans-border social issues, they play a crucial role in establishing, embodying and verifying standards of educational excellence.
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AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THESSALONIKI
The American College of Thessaloniki (ACT) is the
universi-ty division of Anatolia, a private, not-for-profit educational
institution founded in 1886. ACT is an independent
Ameri-can university chartered by the State of Massachusetts and
accredited by the New England Association of Schools and
Colleges (NEASC) through its Commission on Institutions of
Higher Education (CIHE). ACT also holds EU program
valida-tion and has been granted a license by the Greek
govern-ment to operate as a private post-secondary College.
The comprehensive undergraduate curriculum leads to
Bachelor (BA and BS) degrees in various disciplines including
Business (with Concentrations in Finance, International
Busi-ness, Management, and Marketing), International Relations,
English (with Concentrations in Language & Literature and
in Communication & New Media), and Business &
Comput-ing. A graduate Master’s program in Business Administration
(MBA) offers concentrations in Banking and Finance,
Entre-preneurship, Management and Marketing.
ACT is located on a 45 acre campus in Thessaloniki, Greece
and its facilities represent a true, state-of-the-art, college
campus. The school draws students from Greece (45%), the
U.S. (25%), Southeast Europe (25%) and beyond (5%) with
more than 20 distinct nationalities typically represented on
campus from countries as far as Australia, Norway and
Bra-zil. ACT has a vibrant Study Abroad program enrolling over
200 students annually from the U.S. in semester and special
programs. Alumni normally continue their studies at leading
universities in Europe and the United States including in
pri-or years at Oxfpri-ord, LSE, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA
American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) is a selective, residential, liber-al arts university located in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. The university
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Others pursue work opportunities and many hold
leader-ship positions with various organizations in Greece, Europe
and the U.S. ACT has now more than 2,300 alums in over 25
countries.
ACT is a Regional CISCO Academy training individuals and
or-ganizations in the latest technologies in computer
network-ing. Under the aegis of the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center
for Public and Humanitarian Service and the Anatolia
Insti-tute of Management Leadership InstiInsti-tute, ACT organizes and
hosts numerous conferences, colloquia and lectures
cover-ing a wide range of subjects (Economic Crisis, Green Growth,
Retail Markets and Commercial Real Estate,
Entrepreneur-ship, Automotive Business and Design, Managerial
Leader-ship, etc), and involving not only academia and the student
body but the local and international business community,
governmental agencies and NGOs and the community at
large. In recent years more than 100 renowned academics
and industry and political leaders have participated in these
events including Alvaro deSoto, Nicholas Burns, Monteagle
Stearns, Edi Rama, Nikiforos Diamandouros, Radmila
Se-kerenska, Ducan Batakovic, Eugene Skolnikoff, James Veras,
Thea Halo, Dickran Kouymjian, and Nicholas Burbules.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA
The American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, independent institution of higher learning, offering a global education in Armenia. The university provides a high-quality, graduate education within a setting that values and develops academic excellence, critical thought, leadership, and service to society. The undergraduate program will begin in Fall 2013. The graduate program offers eight master’s degrees: Business Administration, Industrial Engineering and Systems Manage-ment, Computer and Information Science, Political Science and Inter-national Affairs, Economics, Public Health, Law, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, as well as joint degree in Public Health & Business Administration. The undergraduate program will offer bachelor’s degrees in English and Communications, Computational Sciences, and Business. The university also includes eight research centers. AUA is affiliated with the University of California and accredited by the Ac-crediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the West-ern Association of Schools and Colleges in the United States.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA
American University of Central Asia (AUCA) is an international, multi-disciplinary learning community in the American liberal arts tradition that develops enlightened and impassioned leaders for the democratic transformation of Central Asia.
AUCA values responsible freedom in the search for truth and jus-tice. We are honest, self-critical, and respectful. We cherish critical inquiry and investigative learning both for their own sake and for the development of an open, diverse and just society that suits the region in which we learn and serve.
AUCA serves Central Asia, where young democracies are emerging in nation states accustomed to more restrictive forms of gover-nance. We develop the skills and the attitude of mind that foster sensitivity to the region’s rich traditions and adaptability for its democratic development.
In this vibrant atmosphere, where the freedom to study is consid-ered a privilege, we design new paths forward for social transfor-mation and international understanding.
Our distinctiveness derives from our highly strategic location, where peoples from east and west have been exchanging goods and ideas for millennia. Our University is a small but powerful en-gine of intellectual freedom and critical thinking that fuels educa-tion in a caring, corrupeduca-tion-free, student-centered environment. is known for its excellent student body (minimum SAT of 1,000) and
its diversity, enrolling 1,100 exceptional students from 40 countries on five continents. Bachelor of Arts degrees are awarded in a broad range of liberal arts disciplines, as well as in computer science and business administration. AUBG is fully accredited both in the United States and in Europe, and degrees carry the European Diploma Supplement. In ad-dition to the undergraduate liberal arts campus in Blagoevgrad, AUBG operates the Center for European Programs and an EMBA degree pro-gram from its site in Sofia.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH
Founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Sharjah, the American University of Sharjah (AUS) has grown rapidly since its inception. Today a complex of stunning buildings on a beautiful campus hosts approximately 5,000 students from 80 nations and a highly qualified and experienced full-time faculty of more than 330 dedicated individuals.
Located in University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, AUS is a not-for-profit, independent, coeducational institution of higher education formed on American models but thoroughly grounded in Arab culture.
The university offers 22 bachelor’s degrees, 39 minors and eight master’s degrees programs through the College of Arts and Scienc-es, College of Engineering, School of Architecture and Design, and School of Business and Management. Reflecting the rapid pace of infrastructural development in the region, the College of Engineer -ing (CEN) is the largest unit on campus with the greatest number of students registered. The School of Business and Management (SBM) is next, followed by the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the School of Architecture and Design (SA&D). Business administration and civil engineering are the most popular majors.
The university is licensed in the United States by the Department of Education of the State of Delaware. It is accredited by the Com-mission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215 662 5606). AUS is also licensed by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and all undergraduate and gradu-ate programs have been awarded either accreditation or accredita-tion-eligible status. All six of the bachelor’s degree programs in the College of Engineering are accredited by ABET in the United States. As AUCA (formerly the American University in Kyrgyzstan founded in
1993) has grown it has established a reputation for dedication to dem-ocratic values, individual freedoms and the spirit of innovation, and it has played an important role in the educational system of this fast changing region. We treasure Central Asia’s historic role as facilitator of mutual understanding and entrepreneurial ideas. In a few short years the University has become one of the academic leaders in the Central Asian region.
Students and faculty, eager to study and pursue their dreams, come to us from 19 different countries, including all the Central Asian states, Af-ghanistan, Belarus, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey and USA.
Our undergraduate programs include American Studies, Business Ad-ministration, Cultural Anthropology and Archeology, Economics, Euro-pean Studies, International and Comparative Politics, Journalism, Law, Psychology, Sociology, Software Engineering and Masters of Business Administration.
AUCA is equipped with more than 300 computers, wireless access to the Internet (Wi-Fi), several multimedia auditoriums with projection systems and a multimedia laboratory. The library has more than 75,000 books, 40 periodicals and hundreds of audio, video and CD titles. AUCA sits in the heart of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, a city in the shadows of mountains; our campus is surrounded by parks. We are near the parliament, museums, art galleries and theatres.
Kyrgyzstan is well known for its spectacular natural resources: soaring mountain peaks, rivers and pristine lakes. Recreational opportunities: ski-ing, hikski-ing, mountain climbing and white water rafting.
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
Central European University (CEU) was founded in 1991 to assist in the process of transition from dictatorship to democracy in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. It is a graduate institution in the social sciences, humanities, law and management, chartered and accredited in the United States and Hungary. Its enrolled students
FRANKLIN COLLEGE
Named for the United States’ first and most illustrious ambassa-dor to Europe, Franklin College was founded in 1969. Franklin is a non-profit four-year liberal arts college that takes as its cornerstone Benjamin Franklin’s vigorous support of intellectual interchange between nations.
Among Franklin College’s goals, the foremost is to provide students with an educational experience that is in every significant respect international. All courses are designed to be cross-cultural in content and perspective. The curriculum, developed in the liberal arts tradi-tion, also allows students to pursue professional avenues through the International Business Program.
The hallmarks of Franklin’s mission are to assist each student in achieving a humanistic education; to further the growth of students through immersion in a different social and cultural environment; to equip students with solid tools of inquiry and judgment and to instill in them an awareness of, and commitment to, the internation-al dimension of human existence. The mission is enhanced by the College’s Academic Travel Program, by which, students travel with faculty to various cities around the world during the semester, as part of their formal education.
AUS is renowned throughout the region for its excellent standard of edu-cation. Its alumni have been admitted to graduate studies at some of the most competitive and prestigious universities in the world, including Har-vard, Columbia and MIT.
Students are encouraged to work along side their professors in conduct-ing research pertainconduct-ing to their respective fields of study. As a result, AUS students have won top honors in both national and international competi-tions.
The AUS library is one of the most impressive buildings on campus. With an area of over 10,000 square meters, the beautifully-designed, state-of-the-art, three-story library is the first of its kind in the region. Since the incep-tion, the AUS library was envisaged as a leading center for research and knowledge, further strengthening the university’s role as a premier institu-tion of higher learning in the Middle East.
AUS also places great stress on the development of the non-academic aspect of a student’s university life. Students are encouraged to participate in all manner of extra-curricular activities. The AUS Sports Complex is a state-of-the-art facility that features an Olympic-size indoor swimming pool, a fitness center and various indoor and outdoor courts.
come from nearly 100 countries and the faculty from 30. Located in the heart of Central Europe — Budapest — CEU has developed a distinct academic and intellectual focus, combining the compara-tive study of the region’s historical, cultural and social diversity within a global perspective on good governance, sustainable de-velopment and social transformation. As part of its educational, research and civic engagement activities, CEU attaches particular importance to public policy and public policy studies.
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IAU COLLEGE
IAU College (IAU), founded in 1957, is chartered by the Board of Re-gents of the University of the State of New York and recognized by the Rectorat of the Université d’Aix-Marseille. One of the first institutions to make study abroad available to non-language majors, IAU established itself as a European center for undergraduate study in the arts, human-ities and social sciences for students from over 700 U.S. colleges and universities. Located in the Provence region of southern France, it is one of the oldest and largest study abroad programs in Europe.
To respond to the varied interests and educational needs of its students, IAU offers a range of settings, courses, internships and curricula. The largest program, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (housed in a renovated 18th-century chapel in the heart of the historic city of Aix-en-Provence), provides French language and cultural studies to stu-dents at all proficiency levels as well as a choice of arts, humanities and business courses taught in English or in French. IAU’s new French Honors Program offers students an all-French program of humanities and social science courses. The Marchutz School of Fine Arts, located in Cezanne’s countryside just outside Aix-en-Provence, is designed as an intensive experience in painting, drawing, and their interrelationships with history, literature and philosophy (complemented by the study of French and an elective). IAU also offers a an intensive summer program in Barcelona, Spain and a three-week travel seminar that takes place in January. All programs cater to students from any major field. It is also possible for students to take courses at the local French universities.
IAU stresses cross-cultural communication and self-awareness. Many of its over 17,000 alumni have gone on to international careers around the world.
On October 17, 1955 Haigazian University was established in Beirut, Lebanon by the joint endeavors of the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) and the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East (UAECNE). This eastern Mediterranean institution is a liberal arts university which emphasizes a challenging curriculum, good teacher-student relations, and empowerment through the free search for truth. The leadership at Haigazian believe that the free exchange of ideas among people from a multiplicity of ethnic and religious backgrounds is one of the best forms education can take; consequently, Haigazian is home campus to students from 20 countries throughout the world. These students enjoy a student-teacher ratio of 14 to 1 which facilitates the university emphasis on a personalized, meaningful education. Haigazian University offers B.A., B.B.A., B.S., M.A. and M.B.A. degrees as well as a teacher’s Normal Diploma. Its units and courses are patterned after the American system of higher education such that students wishing to pursue M.A. and Ph.D. degrees may be attained include: Business Ad-ministration (with emphasis on HOM, MIS, ACC, ADC, FIN, LST), Hospital-ity Management, Economics, Arabic, Armenian, English (with a literature, language of TEFL emphasis), History, Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Education, Political Science, Psychology, and Social Work. All students are assisted in their respective programs by a Faculty Advisor who works to enable them to make the best choices regarding their ed-ucational and vocational future. Assistance in the form of financial aid is available as well.
Haigazian University believes that education never stops. The lifelong learning division of Haigazian University is Center for Continuing Educa-tion, which consists of two evening programs. The In-service Teacher Training Program is attended by school teachers who wish to upgrade their teaching skills through courses and workshops. The Adult Education Program offers business training and other topics of general interest.
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LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
The Lebanese American University is a private, not-for-profit institution chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, with a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and professional de-gree programs recognized by the Lebanese government. It has expanded significantly since its establishment in 1924, and now boasts two campus-es overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, one in the cosmopolitan city of Beirut and the other in the historic city of Byblos.
As a student-centered, liberal arts-based learning community, LAU places emphasis on career and professional education in an environment at once intellectually challenging and supportive, fostering personal as well as academic development. It has approximately 8,300 students, enrolled in seven schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Design, School of Business, School of Engineering, School of Medi-cine, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy. LAU graduates (1,600 in the academic year 2009-2010) are well prepared for national, regional and international careers. Their learning experience equips them with a solid foundation for a lifetime of learning, service and leadership, and cul-tivates their commitment to social and ethical responsibility and diversity.
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JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY
John Cabot University (JCU) was founded in 1972 in Rome, Italy and is an independent, liberal arts university with an enrollment of 1000 students from over 50 countries. JCU’s beautiful campus is located in the historic center of Rome. The University offers 13 Bachelor of Arts degrees in art history, business administration, classical studies, communications, economics and finance, English literature, history, humanistic studies, international affairs, interna-tional business, Italian studies, marketing and political science.
IRISH AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Irish American University was established in 1993 as a nonprofit educational trust. It is licensed by the Department of Education of the State of Delaware and the Department of Education and Skills of the Republic of Ireland to deliver undergraduate and master’s degree programs under its Irish accreditation with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI).
Irish American University offers programs which are designed to meet the needs of its international student body, and prepare it for global society. The mission of the university is to offer the best characteristics of Irish and American higher education in an intimate environment underpinned by the holistic liberal arts model of learning, enabling student to realize their potential and participate successfully in the world.
Irish American University offers the following liberal arts pro-grams: MFA in Creative Writing, BFA in Performing Arts, BA in Liberal Arts. Its business programs are: MBA in International Business, Master of Business in International Business, BA in International Business, BA in Hospitality Management and BA in Event Management.
Student-centered learning with the goal to educate future inter-national community leaders and scholars in business, the arts, and public affairs is at the heart of its educational mission. JCU is ac-credited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, licensed by the Department of Education of the State of Delaware and authorized by the Italian Ministry of Education to operate as an American four-year liberal arts university in Italy. JCU’s motto is “explorando excello.”
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THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE
The American College of Greece, founded in 1875 is comprised of three organizational units: PIERCE College, a secondary school of 800 students in grades 7-12; DEREE College, an undergradu-ate and graduundergradu-ate (arts & sciences) institution of 2,600 students; ALBA Graduate Business School with 400 degree-seeking grad-uate students as well as executive education and professional education programs. ACG students come from 48 countries and study in two Athens locations: a downtown campus (graduate business) and an aesthetically inspiring 64-acre, mountainside campus (the official training site of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team) in Aghia Paraskevi, a suburb of Athens. Twenty-one undergrad-uate majors are offered in the liberal arts and sciences, the fine and performing arts, and business. The graduate school of arts and sciences offers master’s degrees in applied psychology and communication. More than 40,000 alumni comprise a global institutional family of support. ACG graduates have been admit-ted for advanced study to the most prestigious universities in the United States and Europe, hold leadership positions in organiza-tions around the world and have made notable contribuorganiza-tions in virtually every field of human endeavor.
LAU is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Col-leges (CIHE–NEASC). Several of its degree programs have also received professional accreditation. The five undergraduate degree programs in the School of Engineering — civil, comput-er, electrical, mechanical and industrial — are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The B.A. in Computer Science is the only degree program of its kind in the Middle East to be accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and LAU has the only Pharm.D. program outside the United States accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Ed-ucation (ACPE). LAU’s Bachelor of Architecture degree is officially recognized as equivalent to the French Diplôme d’Architecture, which allows our graduates to practice in France and the Euro-pean Union. A number of other programs, including the bache-lor’s degree in business with its various areas of specialization, are meanwhile laying the foundations for attaining professional accreditation.
RICHMOND, THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL
UNIVERSITY IN LONDON
Richmond, The American International University in London is a pri-vate, independent American university accredited in both the United Kingdom (The Open University) and in the United States by the Mid-dle States Commission on Higher Education.
It enrols full-time undergraduates and also offers a portfolio of Masters programs. More than 1,100 students from over 100 countries pursue degrees in academic majors including tional business, psychology, art, design and media and interna-tional relations. Richmond’s academic themes are world aware-ness, cultural diversity, international relations and globalization.
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THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
The American University of Paris is a four-year, independent, non-profit liberal arts college. Founded in Paris in 1962, the University offers outstanding international learning opportuni-ties within the American system of higher education. The stu-dent body numbers about 800, of whom approximately 35% are American, 10% French and 55% are from more than 80 different countries.
Most students come to the University to pursue a three- to four-year course of study leading to a degree, but transfer and visiting students are also welcome. Student mobility to and from other US institutions is assured, as the University is accredited (MSA) and licensed in the United States. American in its structures, its academic policies, and its philosophy of education, the Universi-ty’s English-language undergraduate degree program is charac-terized by intellectual excellence and the opportunity for cultural interchange among a diverse population and a strong, multi-na-tional faculty.
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The American University in Cairo (AUC) was founded in 1919 and is today an essential contributor to the social, political and cultural life of the Arab world. Fully accredited in the Middle East and the United States, AUC links Egypt and the region to the world through scholarly research, study-abroad programs and partnerships with academic and research institutions. AUC’s English-language academic program is rooted in the liberal arts tradition and focused practice. The Universi-ty’s rigorous core curriculum offers an intensive investigation of fun-damental questions in every major discipline. Through its six schools, AUC offers more than 35 undergraduate and 40 graduate programs serving 6,500 students, a PhD program in applied sciences and engi-neering, as well as educational programs for more than 18,000 thou-sand non-degree students. In addition, the University has 13 research centers, the largest English-language library in Egypt, and AUC Press is the leading publisher of English-language books in the Arab world. With two campuses — AUC New Cairo and AUC Tahrir Square — the University is continuing its rich, 94-year-old tradition of education and outreach to Egypt and the world.
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private, independent, coeducational institution that bases its educational philosophy, standards and practices on the American liberal arts model of higher education.
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The university includes six faculties: agricultural and food sci-ences, arts and scisci-ences, engineering and architecture, health sciences,medicine, including the School of Nursing, and the Suli-man S. Olayan School of Business. AUB currently offers programs leading to the bachelor’s, master’s, MD and PhD. The university is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Edu-cation. There are currently more than 8,000 students at AUB — men and women from all backgrounds and more than 65 coun-tries represented.THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME
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The American University of Rome (AUR) is a private, independent, not-for-profit institution of higher education, offering undergraduate liberal arts programs in English to degree and study abroad students from around 40 countries.
The University is located in Rome, Italy, and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The mission of the University is to promote intellectual excellence, per-sonal growth and appreciation of cultural diversity in an international environment.
AUR offers Bachelor of Arts Degree Programs in Archeology and Clas-sics, Art History, Communication, Film and Digital Media, Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, International Relations and Global Politics, Italian Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with more than 20 minors in small classes with a student/faculty ratio of 17:1.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
The American University of Nigeria was created in response to the demand for high-quality, American-style higher education in West Africa. Each year, thou
-sands of West African families send their sons and daughters to universities in the United States and elsewhere internationally. Many of these students would prefer to study, in Nigeria, if a comparable education were available. Now these students do have an option: AUN.
The mission of AUN is to offer an education that is in every way the equal of what a student would experience at the better universities in the United States. The majority of the distinguished faculty are American or American educated; the campus facilities are world class--superior even to those found at many American campuses. The academic programs are built on the American model and are consistent in with US accreditation standards.
The University was created in partnership with the American University in Washington, D.C., an institution with an international reputation for excellence. AUN provides a broad liberal arts education while also meeting the professional aspirations of students and the demand by local and international employers for highly trained svtaff. All students, regardless of academic specialty, receive extensive training in information technology. Upon arrival, every student receives a laptop computer, complete with essential software. Wireless, high-speed Internet access is available everywhere on campus. Every student learns the principles of entrepreneurship so that, regardless of major, he or she will be prepared to achieve personal prosperity and to contribute to the economic development of the region.
AUN’s goal is to educate the next generation of leadership in West Africa. The University is committed to being an important part of the solution to the conti
-nent’s pressing social and economic challenges.
AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY IN IFRANE
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI) is a Moroccan institution of higher education and research, modeled in its administrative, pedagogical and academic organization on the American univer
-sity system. The Univer-sity was founded in 1993 by Morocco’s late king Hassan II, as an independent, coeducational, and resi
-dential institution, with undergraduate and graduate programs. AUI opened its doors to students in January 1995 on a beautiful 50-hectar campus in an oak forest, located in Ifrane, a small resort town in the Middle Atlas Mountains, home to the largest cedar forest in North Africa and corresponding to the most biologically diverse region in Morocco. AUI’s campus is 25 minutes from two ski slopes, a 2.5–hour drive from the capital city (Rabat) on the At
-lantic coast; 6 hours from the Sahara Desert, and less than 1 hour from Fes and Meknes, two large imperial cities in Morocco. AUI aims at promoting the historical and cultural vocation of Mo
-rocco, as an Arab-African nation belonging to the Islamic civiliza
-tion, and open to Europe, America and Asia. The outlook at AUI is international, and cultural tolerance is promoted and expected of students, staff, and faculty belonging to many nationalities, living and working together. AUI also seeks to contribute to the attain
-ment of Morocco’s educational and economic objectives, and to serve the international community, notably by advancing science and technology, training graduates with strong academic and pro
-fessional qualifications, and developing research programs that live up to the highest international standards, with particular emphasis on areas of national or regional socio-economic interest.
Currently, AUI offers Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in three schools: Science & Engineering, Business Administration and
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Humanities & Social Sciences. While English is the language of in
-struction at AUI, the University also sets language requirements in Arabic and French, the official languages in Morocco. The majority of AUI students are full time and live on campus, which has an increas
-ingly international character. The annual number of exchange stu
-dents, primarily from the US, Europe and Asia, makes up about 10% of AUI’s student population. AUI runs over 40 partnership programs, including with Georgetown, UT-Austin, University of Washington, Bentley College, ESADE, ESSEC, Science Po – Paris, SUPELEC, Techni
-cal University of Munich, University of Osaka, etc. AUI students are encouraged to spend a semester or two as exchange students at these partner universities and colleges in various countries such as Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and the US. Interna
-tional faculty (primarily from North America) constitute about 40% of AUI’s faculty body.
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN KOSOVO
The American University in Kosovo (AUK) is Kosovo’s only private, not- for-profit university, which teaches entirely in the English language, allowing it to attract students from every community in Kosovo. It is also the only university whose degrees are accredited and recognized worldwide, due to its partnership with the Rochester Institute of Tech
-nology (RIT) in New York. AUK delivers the same excellent standard of American higher education that students receive at RIT — the same degree, the same syllabus, the same exams and grading standards — taught by many of the same faculty members. AUK is a teaching university, not a research university, and does not offer a PhD or other research degrees. It provides, however, facilities for visiting scholars and researchers, especially in the fields of energy and the environ
-ment, post- conflict nation building, and Balkan politics and history.
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UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN ITALY
Association of American College and University Programs in Italy is a nonprofit voluntary association which currently represents some 140 fully accredited North American colleges and universities that have established programs in Italy for study and research in the fine arts, liberal arts and architecture. It seeks to enhance and facilitate the international education interests of North American college and university programs in Italy by cooperative effort and seeks to further expand the scope of cooperative relationships between its member programs and appropriate Italian counterpart institutions through educational and other cultural exchange.
FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
Forman Christian College is a Chartered University offering a four-year American style bachelor’s degree with majors in eighteen (18) academic disciplines. In addition, FCC offers an MBA degree and is developing master’s degree programs in Economics, Environmental Studies, Biotechnology and Public Policy. English is the medium of instruction.
The university faculty of Forman Christian College includes 136 persons who teach in the university. The faculty includes highly qualified Pakistanis, ex-patriate Pakistanis who have returned to teach at Forman and Americans committed to the task of building an outstanding American style university in Pakistan. Sixty (60) of the faculty have PhD degrees with 75% of them earned in the USA and UK. The student enrollment is 2,400 in the university programs. The majority of the faculty and student body are Muslim, and they are working alongside Christian faculty members and students in an atmosphere of mutual respect, understanding and affection. The university seeks to be a model of interfaith harmony. FCC is co-educational and in 1902 it was the first college on the sub-continent to admit women.
Forman Christian College also conducts a pre-college Intermediate Program (the 11th &12th grades) with 75 faculty and 2,000 students.
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY
The International Space University (ISU) helps to develop future leaders for the world space community by providing interdisciplinary educational programs to students and space professionals in an inter
-national, intercultural environment.
Whether it be through its two Masters Degree programs or its re
-nowned, nine week Summer Session Program, ISU offers its students a unique and comprehensive education covering all aspects of space programs and enterprises – space science, space engineering, systems engineering, space policy and law, business and management, and space and society.
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Forman Christian College was founded in 1864 and over the span of a century became known as one of the very best colleges on the subconti
-nent. The college motto, “By love, serve one another,” has been
a guiding principle for Formanites throughout the history of the college. Among the graduates of the college are two Presidents of Pakistan, two Prime Ministers of Pakistan, a Prime Minister of India, the first Chief Justice of Pakistan, a number of Governors and Chief Ministers of the Punjab and other provinces, an Attorney General of Pakistan, two Foreign Ministers, and a Defense Minister of Pakistan, a President of the Security Council of the United Nations, numerous Ambassadors to other nations, a Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, a Chairman of the Senate and several Speakers of the National Assembly, numerous Generals and Admirals, many key business leaders and an equally impressive list of leaders in the fields of education, the law, medicine, the arts and entertainment. The research for which Dr. Arthur Compton earned the Nobel Prize in 1932 was conducted in the laboratories of Forman Christian College while he served as a member of the faculty.
Forman’s scenic 108 acre campus is located in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan. A vibrant city of eight million, Lahore has been at the crossroads of history on the sub-continent for centuries and boasts of majestic Mu
-ghal monuments and scenic gardens. The College is renovating its stately buildings and has added new buildings for the Science and Social Science disciplines.
Students come from many disciplines ranging from the sciences and engineering to economics, public policy, law, business and the human
-ities. With an international student body – 20 to 30 different nations represented in a class - and the involvement of space agencies and the aerospace industry worldwide, the international dimension found at ISU is extraordinary.
The ISU experience gives students substantive intercultural knowl
-edge and a skill set for working with multicultural teams. Since its creation in 1988, ISU has graduated over 2400 students from 91 countries, and it has created an extensive international network that is proving to be increasingly important in implementing international space ventures.
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
Saint Louis University Madrid Campus is the European branch of Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, a Catholic, Jesuit institution dedicated to providing excellence in teaching, research, health care and service. While originally established in the 1960s as a study abroad program for US college students, SLU-Madrid is now a free-standing campus where students from more than 65 countries study under
-graduate and -graduate courses to obtain either U.S. liberal arts four-year undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees or, in the case of study abroad students, credits towards their degrees on their home campus
-es. Scholarships and financial aid are available, facilitating the access to SLU-Madrid’s academic programs to students from around the world. SLU-Madrid’s primary accreditation is with the North Central Associa
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accredited by their respective professional organizations in the U.S. In addition to the University’s accreditation, SLU-Madrid is recognized by the Consejería de Educación y Cultura, Madrid’s provincial authority responsible for all colleges and universities in the region.
The campus itself is located in a historically preserved neighborhood of Madrid, amidst other universities and private residences. Madrid’s superb public transportation network enables students to live any
-where in the city. Many choose to reside with host families, screened by SLU-Madrid’s housing office; others apply to live in nearby colegios mayores (student residences); still others, find their own apartments. Madrid, of course, is Spain’s capital, and its rich history and vibrant culture make it arguably the most exciting city in the world to call home.
Over one hundred faculty members, including leading scholars and researchers in their fields, deliver the academic programs offered at SLU-Madrid.
Its library, which provides access to University-wide databases and electronic resources, also holds a print collection developed to sup
-port the programs offered in Madrid. Additional SLU-Madrid resourc
-es include academic advising, career servic-es, counseling servic-es, academic tutoring, information technology support, campus ministry, and student life.
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN
The American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) is an internationally-sup
-ported private, not-for-profit university located in Kabul, Afghanistan. Established in 2006, it provides modern, global standard education to its students. AUAF currently offers programs that cover the spectrum of post-secondary education, from university preparation to undergraduate degree programs to training for professionals.
1- The Foundation Studies Program prepares students for the challenging expectations of university degree programs, and also develops the high-level English language skills necessary to take on major employment positions in Afghanistan or abroad.
2- The Undergraduate Program offers bachelor degrees in a number of disciplines, including Business Administration and Information Technology. All degree programs include a strong liberal arts com ponent, which is critical to building general knowledge in a variety of fields of study.
3- The Professional Development Institute offers impact, value training courses, workshops and seminars to professionals from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and governmental bodies.
All programs are taught in English by highly-qualified faculty and instructors with academic backgrounds from internationally-accredited universities in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, supported by the largest English-language academic library in the country and a technologically-ad
-vanced campus.
As the country’s only private, not-for-profit university, the American Univer
-sity works closely with donors and members of the governmental, business, and development communities in Afghanistan and abroad to provide its students with high-quality education.
Central to the Saint Louis University’s mission is the formation of its stu
-dents. SLU-Madrid offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular ac
-tivities, including a student government association, student clubs, service opportunities, athletics, and course-related trips to destinations in Spain, throughout Europe and beyond. Along with service and work opportuni
-ties, SLU-Madrid strives to provide an academic environment that pro
-motes cultural sensitivity and social awareness to prepare students to be responsible, compassionate, and actively engaged individuals committed to service and the greater good of the world.
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American College of Thessaloniki American University in Bulgaria American University of Armenia American University of Central Asia American University of Sharjah Central European University Franklin College
Haigazian University IAU College
Irish American University John Cabot University
Lebanese American University
Richmond, The American International University in London
The American College of Greece The American University in Cairo The American University of Beirut The American University of Paris The American University of Rome
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American University of Nigeria Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane American University of Kosovo Association of American College and University Programs in Italy Forman Christian College International Space University Saint Louis University
The American University of Afghanistan
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