Academics
AUC offers undergraduate programs and graduate programs, as well as continuing education opportunities within its schools and research centers. The university’s English-language liberal arts environment is designed to promote critical thinking, language and cultural skills as well as to foster in students an appreciation of their own culture and heritage and their responsibilities toward society. The university’s objective of promoting international understanding is supported by means of scholarships, learned discourse, a multicultural campus environment and The American University in Cairo Press.
AUC holds institutional accreditation from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in the United States. AUC's engineering programs are accredited by ABET (formerly Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and the business programs are accredited by the Association to Advance College Schools of Business (AACSB.) In Egypt, AUC operates within the framework of the 1975 protocol with the Egyptian government, which is based on the 1962 Cultural Relations Agreement between the U.S. and Egyptian governments. In the United States, AUC is licensed to grant degrees and is incorporated by the State of Delaware.
Undergraduate and graduate schools
- School of Business
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
- School of Sciences and Engineering
- School of Continuing Education
- Graduate School of Education
Research centers
- Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D)
- AUC Forum
- Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
- Center for Translation Studies
- Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies
- Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
- Desert Development Center (DDC)
- Economic and Business History Research Center
- El-Khazindar Business Research and Case Center
- John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement
- John D. Gerhart Field Station in El Gouna
- Middle East Studies Center
- Prince Alwaleed American Studies Center
- Research Advisory Council
- Social Research Center
- Office of Institutional Research
- Office of the Associate Provost for Research Administration
- Office of Sponsored Programs
- Yousef Jameel Science and Technology Research Center (YJ-STRC)
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