Student Life
The university has about 1,000 students with over 95 nationalities represented on campus.
Almost any undergraduate class of 20 students has about fifteen nationalities, with many of the world’s cultures and religions represented. Americans represent about one third of the student body, Europeans (from more than twenty-five countries) another third, and the final third come about evenly from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Students have the opportunity to learn and meet other students through a large number of clubs and organizations. Some of the most popular include the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots & Shoots, AUPPA (student political association), WhiteMask Theatre club, AUP’s debate club, Model United Nations, Photo Club, Student Government Association (SGA), and the Graduate Student Council (GSC).
Students also manage several student-run publications, including the monthly student newspaper, The Planet; Core, AUP’s humanities journal; Scripta Politica et Economica; and Paris/Atlantic, a journal of creative work.
Students live off campus, many near the university. The Housing Office helps AUP students find lodging in chambres de bonne (small, private rooms generally found on the top floor of older French apartment buildings), with French hosts, or in apartments. Students also have the opportunity of living in student housing (Campuséa Residence) in the 13th arrondissement of Paris half an hour by metro from AUP.
ARC@AUP (the Academic Resource Center) is a project designed to link technology to the curriculum and to supplement academic support services at AUP. On the ground floor of the Grenelle Building, ARC provides multiple services to students, including library research stations and video production equipment. Peer tutoring services, including the Writing Lab, are also available in the ARC space.
There are five student computer labs containing 100 Windows and iMac computers. Students have free e-mail accounts and Internet access as well as use of a variety of software, printers, projectors, and scanners. WiFi is available throughout the campus buildings.
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