The American University of Rome is committed to excellence in education and the promotion of cross-cultural exchange. AUR is dedicated to encouraging academic achievement in its students and offers a curriculum designed to complement our high academic standards and ensure an active-learning environment with small student:faculty ratio.

Founded in 1969, The American University of Rome is the oldest degree-granting American university in Rome. AUR is a coeducational, accredited university which offers undergraduate degrees in six disciplines and enrolls more than 550 students (Spring 2007). AUR is a private, nonprofit, free-standing university which is not itself, nor is it affiliated with, an institution of the District of Columbia government or the US federal government.

The University offers programs to obtain the following degrees:

Associate of Arts Degrees

• Liberal Arts
• International Business

Bachelor of Arts Degrees

• Art History
• Communication
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• International Relations
• Italian Studies

Bachelor of Science Degree

• Business Administration

The University also offers a study abroad program for students studying at other universities.

The AUR Logo

The AUR logo is derived from the design of the distinctive paving pattern of Michelangelo’s Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Its twelve-pointed geometry has a multitude of meanings, primary among them in this context the radiant role of Rome as the center of the world, the Caput Mundi, as the ancients fashioned it and as the Renaissance revived the concept. [James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo (1986), 166-70] The suggestion is today still compelling in the dynamic unity of this place as a symbol of the millennial traditions of art, politics, science and culture that are the basis of the liberal education at The American University of Rome.