The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe. The university campus consists of ten buildings, centrally located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, and the Seine.[3]
The university's language of instruction is English, although students must prove a level of proficiency in French prior to graduation.[4]The
university has over 1100 students, representing 108 nationalities, with
an average student-to-faculty ratio of twelve to one. The university's
faculty members represent thirty nationalities, with sixty nine percent
holding doctoral degrees and close to seventy percent speaking three or more languages.[2]
The university sponsors more than two hundred lectures and seminars every year. Past lecturers at AUP have included David Lynch,Martha Nussbaum, Jane Goodall, J.M. Coetzee, National Geographic photojournalist Reza, Calvin Klein, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Additionally, the university has hosted numerous international conferences, inviting an aggregate of over a thousand scholars, including Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-recipient of Economics in 1992 and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Michel Rocard, former Prime Ministers of France.[5]
The university has been awarding honorary degrees since 1984. Amongst
the recipients are scholars, writers, artists, political figures and
researches, including Gene Kelly,
Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Robert Wilson, Pierre Salinger,
Jessye Norman, I.M. Pei, William Styron, Simon Weisenthal, Pamela
Harriman, Simone Veil, Sargent Shriver, James Ivory, Bernard Kouchner, Michel Rocard,
Christine Lagarde, Christiane Amanpour, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Tzvetan
Todorov, Muriel Spark, Mavis Gallant, J.M. Coetzee, Eugene Lang, Paul
Muldoon, Jane Goodall, Archie Shepp, David McCullough, Christine Lagarde, Louise Arbour, and Martha Nussbaum.[6]
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