The American University of Paris (AUP) is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in the State of Delaware and licensed by the State Board of Education as a Delaware institution of higher education.  AUP is accredited in the United States by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

The mission of The American University of Paris is to educate generations of academic, social, political, intellectual and business citizens of the world and to enhance the advancement of scholarship in the arts and sciences in an international, multicultural and plural environment.

Founded in 1962, AUP is a small higher education institution with a student body of around 1000, representing 100 nationalities, and an average student to faculty ratio of 18 to 1. AUP faculty members represent 15 nationalities, all are at least bilingual, and most of them hold a doctoral degree from the world's most distinguished graduate schools. AUP's academic portfolio reflects this international and interdisciplinary orientation, offering 14 majors and 25 minors from the most varied disciplines. Both the academic excellence and the international dimension of AUP’s programs have been important advantages for our graduates in gaining admission to top graduate programs, as well as in pursuing career opportunities in the U.S.A., France, Europe, and elsewhere around the world.

Gerardo della Paolera, a world-renowned expert on Latin American economic history, is President of The American University of Paris and a member of the Economics faculty.  Della Paolera joined the University in 2002, attracted by AUP's evolving concepts of global citizenship and responsibility.  His aim as President is to advance scholarship, develop graduate programs, increase faculty and research resources and bring financial sustainability to the university, and in doing so, transform AUP from a college offering a solid liberal arts program into a reputed university that advances scholarship in the arts, humanities and sciences.

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