Arab American University (AAU)

Arab American University (AAU)

Arab American University (AAUP, formerly AAUJ) is the first private Palestinian university, founded in the year 2000 in collaboration with California State University (CSU) in Stanislaus and Utah State University (USU) in Logan. USU provided the faculty members and administrators to run the university in its first two years. AAUP serves the educational needs of over 11,300 students; among them, there are 40% from Palestine and 55% from the Palestinian homeland, and 5% from international countries. In 2017, the second campus of the university was opened in Ramallah Governorate, where the university grants bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in more than 40 majors in eleven different faculties.