Founded in Paris as an American-style liberal arts college in 1962, The American University of Paris is an international university located at the meeting point of France, Europe and the world. The University has at the core of its mission the commitment to providing a student-centered, transformative and career-enabling education. Students from over a hundred nationalities benefit from small class sizes, which combine liberal arts inquiry with an active approach to learning. World-class faculty members teach in English across 27 undergraduate majors and 4 core fields of graduate study. AUP’s 20,000 alumni live and work in 145 countries across the globe.