Incoming Student Abroad, Outgoing Exchange Programs

Associate Vice-President for Student Life
Associate Provost for International Programs

The American University in Cairo welcomes international students to study at the university on a visiting basis for a full academic year, semester, summer session or winter term. Sophomores, juniors, seniors and individuals who already hold a bachelor’s degree are welcome. International students pay regular AUC fees in U.S. Dollars. Study abroad/visiting students attend the same classes and are accorded the same student life participation opportunities as regular students. AUC is recognized as an approved overseas study site by numerous U.S. and other institutions worldwide. While 80 to 100 foreign colleges and universities may be represented on campus at any time, a few of the institutions that regularly send students to AUC are Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Northwestern and Tufts Universities, Suny, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Bergen in Norway.

Since AUC is both a US-accredited institution, and one recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt, students from most universities around the world are able to transfer credits earned at AUC to their home institutions.

Emphasizing the value of inter-cultural and career-enhancement experiences, the University provides study abroad and exchange opportunities with universities in the United States, Japan, Canada and Europe for its degree-seeking students. The exchange institutions are Pennsylvania State University, the University of California, the University of Colorado, the University of Massachusetts, the University of St. Thomas, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington , Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, Simon Fraser University and Concordia University in Canada, Bocconi University in Italy, Concordia University and St. Andrews University in Scotland, UK and The American University in Beirut. Full details about Exchange Programs are available at the International Student Services Office. Additionally, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences has a special exchange program with the University of East London, Faculty of Social Sciences, every spring semester.

To make study at AUC more accessible to students at all public institutions in the United States, AUC provides study abroad students from such universities with financial assistance sufficient to reduce their effective cost at AUC to the out of state semester equivalent tuition rate at their home institution if that is less than AUC’s tuition for the same academic period. Information on this assistance and on the Study Abroad Program at AUC is available through the New York Office, and can be accessed on the AUC website www.aucegypt.edu