American University in Dubai

The American University in Dubai (AUD) (Arabic: الجامعة الأمريكية في دبي‎‎) is a private, non-sectarian academy of college acquirements in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1995. AUD is accepted regionally as a abstracted assemblage by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. AUD serves UAE nationals and all-embracing acceptance from all over the apple and action them an American-style education.

The University has both US and UAE accreditation for all of its programs. AUD is the alone university alfresco the United States and Latin America to be anon accepted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, although it is not the alone US-accredited university in the Persian Gulf arena (others are accepted by the U.S. Middle States Commission on College Education). American University in Dubai is not affiliated with American University in Washington, D.C.

2012–2013 acceptance was about 3,000 and over 100 nationalities are represented in the apprentice body. AUD has a assorted adroitness of over 180. AUD's class is skill-directed and career-oriented.

Campus
The American University in Dubai is anchored next to Dubai Media City, Dubai Internet City, and the Palm Islands.
AUD's multi-complex ability is anchored on breadth of about 1,300,000 sq ft (120,000 m2). and encompasses three bookish buildings, a Apprentice Center, an administering building, abode halls, a cafeteria area, and an accessible air sports facilities.

Accreditation
The American University in Dubai (AUD) is accepted to admission bachelor's and master's degrees by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), one of America's seven bounded accrediting bodies. AUD charcoal the alone academy of college acquirements alfresco the US and Latin America to be accepted this accreditation by SACSCOC.[6] The American University in Dubai is clearly accountant by the Ministry of College Apprenticeship and Scientific Research of the United Arab Emirates. The Ministry has accepted all the university’s programs.
AUD is accustomed to accomplish by the State of Georgia Nonpublic Postsecondary Apprenticeship Commission (NPEC).[8] AUD's undergraduate majors in Marketing Communications and Advertising accept been accepted by the All-embracing Advertising Association (IAA) in New York.

The American University in Dubai has accustomed specialized accreditation for its business programs through the All-embracing Assembly for Collegiate Business Apprenticeship (IACBE), amid in Olathe, Kansas. The business programs in the afterward degrees are accepted by the IACBE: Bachelor of Business Administering (B.B.A.), with majors in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Marketing Communications; and the Master of Business Administering (M.B.A.), with concentrations in Finance and Marketing.

Founding and history
Following the Gulf War in 1991, a aggregation led by Elias Bou Saab from the American College visited the Persian Gulf to authorize relationships with assorted ministries of college apprenticeship as able-bodied as the region’s schools.
The abridgement of superior clandestine apprenticeship at the university level, accompanying with an acknowledgment of the American archetypal of college education, led them to conduct a achievability abstraction on the affairs of establishing an American university in the Persian Gulf. The after-effects accepted the top akin of absorption and admiration for a campus alms an American-accredited educational curriculum.

It aswell became bound credible that the Emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, would be an ideal abode to locate such an institution. Dubai was begin to be a politically stable, catholic and outward-looking belt whose about non-existent clandestine area in college apprenticeship was just alpha to draw some attention.

Elias Bou Saab confused to Dubai in 1995 in adjustment to clearly authorize the American University in Dubai, which in about-face would not accept been accessible after the charge and abutment from the alpha of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. To this day, His Highness continues his absolute abutment for college apprenticeship in accepted and to the university in particular.
The American University in Dubai opened its doors in October 1995 as a annex campus of the American College, based in Atlanta, Georgia.

AUD’s antecedent acceptance was 165 students, over bisected of which were females. By the time above Secretary of State and Treasury James Baker gave the Keynote at AUD’s aboriginal admission in 1998, acceptance had climbed to 499; and the Dubai government, as an announcement of confidence, had absitively to body a campus of 1,400,000 aboveboard anxiety for use by the university. AUD confused out of its antecedent bounds to absorb this new, spacious, absolutely able campus in January 2000. Its acceptance at that time was 687.

The year 2000 was aswell cogent because it was in that year that the university was clearly accountant by the UAE Ministry of College Apprenticeship and Scientific Research (MOHE). The clandestine area for college apprenticeship had developed appreciably back AUD’s founding, and the Ministry saw fit to authorize a bookish licensure and (subsequently) accreditation process. It was in 2000 that AUD’s better bookish administration – Business Administering – was organizationally appointed as a School. In 2001, a announcement of compassionate was active amid the American University in Dubai (AUD) and the Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta, GA to authorize a School of Engineering. Representatives from Georgia Tech, including six chief adroitness and authoritative officers, visited AUD to agree the adjustment of curricula to the requirements of the UAE.

In December 2007, and for the third time back its aperture in 1995, The American University in Dubai accustomed absolute accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), one of America's seven bounded accrediting commissions. AUD is the aboriginal and alone academy alfresco of the US and Latin America to be accepted this account by SACS. AUD is now a absolutely absolute institution.
The American University in Dubai aswell maintains an barter affairs with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Acceptance from both institutions can yield courses and accept acclaim through the barter program.