AUA Accepted into the Association of American International Colleges and Universities

Athens, April 13 - The Association of American International Colleges and Universities (AAICU), during its annual meeting, approved the full membership of the American University of Armenia (AUA) in the organization. AUA President, Haroutune Armenian said, "Our membership in this Association will improve our networking and will allow us to participate in a number of joint programmatic as well as management projects. We look forward to becoming very active members of the AAICU."

The AAICU is composed of a number of distinct, university-level institutions that are accredited by one of the regional accrediting agencies in the United States, or have an equivalent status. These include the American Universities of Bulgaria, Cairo, Paris, Thessaloniki, Kyrgyzstan, Beirut, Sharjah; The American College of Greece, Richmond The American International University in London; University of La Verne, Athens; John Cabot University in Rome; Haigazian University, Beirut; Lebanese American University; Saint Louis University in Spain; and Franklin College in Switzerland.

AUA's academic program provides graduate education in Business and Management, Industrial Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences, Political Science, Health Sciences, Law, Comparative Legal Studies, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The use of English as the language of instruction is intended to facilitate communication between graduates of AUA and their colleagues throughout the world and to attract an international faculty cadre and student body.