Academics
The World Needs New Perspectives. Add Yours.
AUP’s Founder, Dr. Lloyd A. DeLamater believed in international community and that, in order to foster international cooperation, it was important to move beyond what he called “narrow nationalisms,” or an overreliance on any one national perspective. As a diplomat and economic advisor for NATO, he understood that advocating for understanding between countries was not only a necessity; it was also a way to encourage students to build the special leadership, collaboration and peacekeeping skills necessary to responsibly navigate complexity at the international level. He founded The American University of Paris to help students thrive in intensely international environments and, in doing so, to encourage intercultural exchange. More than 60 years later, this mission still informs everything from our academic approach to how we build our programs and the students we admit to them.
Our Programs
Transformative degrees for students seeking to master a chosen field.
AUP’s master’s programs help students thrive in a changing world by encouraging self-reflection and adaptability as they navigate these new experiences. No matter the subject, students will need to adopt multidisciplinary approaches to learning that explore key global issues from varied perspectives. They must learn to situate their studies in any cultural context all while accumulating practical experience relevant to taking up positions as team leaders and changemakers working for international employers in a wide range of fields.
Diplomacy & International Law
The MA in Diplomacy and International Law enables students to think critically about pressing contemporary issues in public, comparative, humanitarian and human rights law from a uniquely international perspective. Students acquire the fundamental knowledge and practical skills necessary for careers in international law, diplomacy and international advocacy. These are the tools they will need to become active proponents of social justice, educated to work in multicultural work environments on complex global issues.
Global Communications
The MA in Global Communications trains emerging professionals to navigate and excel in today’s complex communications landscape. Master the art of communicating across borders, cultures and disciplines by learning the strategic skills necessary to thrive in fields such as filmmaking, journalism, podcasting, marketing and NGO work. By combining a robust foundation in theory with a wide range of intercultural perspectives, students look beyond US models to gain a broad understanding of interdisciplinary communications practices in multiple national and international contexts.
Human Rights & Data Science
The MSc in Human Rights and Data Science combines a rigorous foundation in data science with a study of the legal and philosophical framework that underpins the field. This two-sided approach ensures the ethical implementation of relevant policies and protections. Gain fluency in two pioneering fields of expertise alongside hands-on technical training in relevant software. Actively engage with the emerging issues of ethics and protection, through hands-on workshops with industry professionals. Big data is changing the world, but with the right approach to data science, we can change it for the better.
International Affairs
Understanding today means you can help construct tomorrow. The MA in International Affairs prepares students to confidently confront the ethical gray zones that are inherent to all socio-political issues when studied at a global scale. The program equips rising professionals with the skills to promote peace and social justice at community, national and international levels. Graduates will learn to analyze contemporary issues from an informed, pluralistic viewpoint and truly impact the current discourse, all while living in a cosmopolitan hub for economics, politics and social issues.
International Management
The MSc in International Management teaches students to view conventional management approaches through a critical lens, adapting leadership values and methods to better address today’s economic, social, environmental and public policy challenges. The program encourages critical enquiry and self-reflection in managerial decision-making, while emphasizing ethical approaches that put people first. Adopting these values is the only way that more ethical management practices can take root in a globalized market.
Strategic Brand Management
The MSc in Strategic Brand Management combines foundations in communications and brand theory with core courses from AUP’s innovative International Management curriculum. It prepares students to expertly manage and shape an international brand and its relationship to the consumers and employees who make its success possible.
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As part of our mission to foster global citizenship, AUP’s international collaborations open the doors for our students even wider.
Interdisciplinary, International & Dialectical
Our graduate programs prepare students to thrive in intensely international professional environments whose culture and ways of operating resemble those of the United Nations or the EU headquarters of a global company like Samsung. In these third culture spaces, modes of operation and interaction are not determined by a single pervasive, or perhaps national, perspective, but by the unique culture born out of the comingling of globe-spanning business practices, mentalities and forms of interaction.
To this end, our graduate programs are designed to be intensely interdisciplinary, cultivating the dialectical thinking skills needed to navigate careers at a global scale. In all our programs, faculty, who themselves come from highly international backgrounds, engage students in activities that help them exercise their capacity not only to understand and appreciate multiple conflicting perspectives on a given subject, but also to consider context, history and culture in order to diplomatically and ethically navigate uncertainty. Students therefore acquire the confidence to adapt to change and learn to toggle between conflicting perspectives in order to drive progress.
Classroom Environment: Discussion in small groups facilitated by mentoring faculty.
Academic Resources: Students craft their own pathways through master’s studies supported by academic, career and experiential resources.
Theory and Practice
We believe that true subject mastery is demonstrated not strictly in how much someone has memorized about a particular topic, but in their ability to mobilize their expertise ethically and efficiently in the face of uncertainty – the single most consistent aspect of work in international contexts. Our programs thus include a wide range of hands-on international experiences outside of the classroom, so that students are able to navigate within their field just as much as they study it.
Graduate Study Trips: Students put theory into practice outside of the classroom with in-depth, career-focused field experience.
Internships and Partnerships: Visits to relevant institutions in Paris and beyond and internships with world-leading international companies.
Learning French: Students are able to make the most of living in France’s cosmopolitan capital by taking on the additional challenge of learning French outside of AUP.
Our Faculty
Faculty mentorship supports students in constructing their own pathways to mastery in their chosen fields. In this way, students reflect on their own contributions to classroom discussion and engage in rigorous discussion with our expert faculty, often taking part in collaborative research projects directly. It’s a proven way of developing employable skills through immersion in professional contexts.
Faculty
Experts in their fields, mentors in the classroom. AUP’s faculty lead international careers across academia and industry.
Research
AUP faculty conduct rigorous research aimed at resolving global problems, including through the University’s five research centers.
Graduate Study Trips
Iceland
5 days
Experience and explore Iceland’s unique approach to promoting environmental and cultural sustainability. Strap on steel crampons for a lecture walk on a glacier, take a dip in the Blue Lagoon, and scan the night skies for the Northern lights. Undertake field research in one of the most successfully promoted destinations in recent years, meeting with local brand managers, place influencers and cultural researchers.
Cairo, Egypt
5 days
Explore the monuments of Ancient Egypt by visiting the Valley of the Kings in Luxor and the spectacular tomb of Ancient Egyptian golden boy-king Tutankhamun. Understand more about the modern country by visiting Cairo, cultural capital and largest city in today’s Arab World. This study trip explores selected destinations in Egypt, one of the largest and most-populous countries in Africa and the Arab World, focusing on aspects of both the country’s modern and ancient history.
India
3 weeks
Study, travel, learn and volunteer in South India over winter break. The Sustainable Development Practicum in South India is a unique intensive field course blending classes in sustainable development and development communications with multiple site visits and an opportunity to pursue an internship work experience volunteering for non-governmental organizations. Students work on media and communications projects for local NGOs committed to social, cultural and economic development in urban and rural communities.