| WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME
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
500 students (Spring 2006).
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 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.
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