Global Professional Skills Program (GPS)

The Global Professional Skills (GPS) program is AUP’s signature career development program. It is open to all undergraduate students and provides you with the opportunity to sharpen critically important skills and develop your own personal narrative throughout college that will benefit your life post-AUP.

As an undergraduate student, you are strongly encouraged to participate in co-curricular activities during your time at AUP — whether it's volunteering with an international NGO, interning with your dream fashion designer, or participating in one of AUP's many clubs. You generate a co-curricular record (CCR) that registers all of your activities from semester to semester and connects them with your transcript to boost your career prospects after graduation.

To successfully earn a GPS certificate, you will explore global skills through design thinking workshops, reflective exercises, and activities that align with our university Core Capabilities. Each activity is designed, in the words of AUP’s mission, "to challenge you to master and to make, to reflect and to apply and to analyze and to act in hands-on, real-world settings."