American Univeristy of Paris Reviews

After 4 years in this school, I can confidently say that it is a big waste of time and money. They discriminate on your socio-economic origins, the staff is brittle or even contemptuous. Administration has no relationship skills and sometimes you have people who disrespect you when they talk to you. The worst part is that you trust and you get stabbed in the back afterwards. In addition, the students are not motivated and it is very difficult to get them to participate in a project or an extracurricular activity from A to Z without them giving up from the first meeting. Many pay for their degrees and don't seem to care about the financial investment such an education represents.
The only positive point is that I quickly found my end-of-studies internship thanks to the university's job database, and the classes were interesting even if in the end you won't learn anything concrete. The programs are not at all adapted to the labor market. To avoid absolutely!

The university's language of instruction is English, although students must prove a level of proficiency in French prior to graduation.[5] The university has over 1,100 students, representing over 100 nationalities, with an average student-to-faculty ratio of thirteen to one. The university's faculty members represent 21 nationalities, with 71% holding doctoral degrees and close to 70% speaking three or more languages.[2]



The university has been awarding honorary degrees since 1984. Amongst the recipients are scholars, writers, artists, political figures, and researchers, 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, Louise Arbour, Margaret MacMillan, R. Nicolas Burns, and Martha Nussbaum.[8]

History Edit
Founded by Dr. Lloyd DeLamater, a then 40-year-old US Foreign Service officer, in 1962 as the American College in Paris (ACP), the university was renamed 26 years later as The American University of Paris (AUP).[9]

ACP was initially a two-year junior college located in the American Church in Paris. Its inaugural class consisted of 100 students, many of whom were children of American service members and expatriates living in France and Europe. Fifteen part-time professors taught courses in Economics, English, Fine Arts, Government History, French, German, Spanish, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Sociology. In 1964, the first 40 students received their diplomas for two years of study, going on to complete their degree in the United States.

Horrible school with no meal or housing plan (they want you to partner with Comforts of Home, who completely rip you of thousands of dollars to give you as little as possible), and the counselor suggested i try smoking weed to ease the stress i was going through BECAUSE of them.

I was enrolled September of 2017 and per guidelines as a first year student you are required to find housing through Comforts of Home, which leases apartments to students for around 1,500 a month. I was in a three bedroom apartment with six other girls, sleeping in a room with three beds (one blocking the window so you couldn t open the window, and one blocking the fireplace and another in front of the large single closet that was separated into three spaces. This is NOT enough space to live in and i quickly moved to another apartment through Comforts of Home in the spring. This was a three bedroom apartment shared by four other girls (five total, you could choose to pay 2000 extra if you wanted a room to yourself, otherwise you had to share) which was much better. After multiple accusations of me and my roommates being loud and obnoxious (which to be fair we were about half of the time) we were eventually fined. Putting that aside, the immigration process can be quite stressful and AUP is SUPPOSED to help you with the process of getting your student visa renewed, and getting a card that will allow you to get a job in the city legally as an immigrant studying abroad. This takes months in advance to schedule and has to be done meticulously. AUP forgot to schedule an appointment to get my working card, making it impossible for me to get a job to help with my living expenses. I was stressed out looking for ways to budget my travel and living expenses and went to the dean and student counseling services multiple times as my grades were dropping, to which one of the counselors suggested I smoke weed to calm my anxiety down. Shortly after i stopped attending classes and by the end of the year i left the school completely to finish my degree elsewhere

DO NOT attend this school unless you have the funds to support yourself the entire time. Taking out loans will not help you. The faculty and/or student services have zero answers and even the school disagrees with the way Comforts of Home run their services but do nothing about it because they are under contract.

The only thing they have ever been punctual with is payment deadlines and emailing students on appointment dates for immigration needs (however there is no information on where to go or who to see, just an address and a time).

ALSO PLEASE BEWARE NOT ALL OF YOUR CREDITS WILL TRANSFER TO ANOTHER SCHOOL. AUP is accredited through the University of Delaware however when i transferred to a community college elsewhere in the US I was forced to retake specific classes to regain the credit. Save your time, save your money, save your stress.

after four years I can safely say that this school might be a scam. essentially you're buying a degree. everything here is for show. the administration is consistently infuriating. the student body is mostly unmotivated to the point where classes don't even work. put in a little bit of effort and see the A's come in.

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Great university of France
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AUP - the melting pot of global knowledge, culture and network.

The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962

Our son will be graduating next Spring. He LOVES his professors and has really thrown himself into academic pursuits. He could have attended several schools in the US, but we re so thankful he made this out-of-the norm choice. In addition to becoming French fluent, and making friends from all over the world, he has grown into an incredible man. As in all of life, an education is what you make of it. Our entire family is tremendously grateful for his four years at AUP.

Awful administration. The worst recrutement experience ever!

Very beautiful building. The students and the staff are very friendly. Unfortunately very expensive university for the modest degrees it provides

The only convenience is the opportunity to earn an US degree while studying abroad.Sadly, it's a well-known fact on campus that the student development office is filled with unskilful people. The administrative staff is not knowledgeable about the US educational system. The student leadership office does not make any effort to make our student experience more enjoyable. It is definitely not worth the cost. There are tones of other programs that will allow you to study in Paris.If you are an international student, most universites in France are free and you will have a better housing situation.