Graduate students at AUC receive an unrivalled education that allows them to excel in and further their chosen career path.

With a growing variety of master's degrees and non-degree programs , the university seeks to attract to its graduate programs excellent students who demonstrate the ability to do creative and original work.

Recently Launched Graduate Programs

Master's Degree in Migration and Refugee Studies 
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo is now offering a new master's degree in migration and refugee studies along with its graduate diploma in refugee studies. The mission of the MA program is to provide, within a liberal arts context, a high quality and unique graduate education in migration and refugee studies with a focus on the Middle Eastern and North African region. The aim is to provide graduates with critical knowledge and analytical skills of current theoretical, legal, political, economic, social, demographic and psychological issues in migration and refugee studies. The knowledge and skills acquired may be applied in careers within institutions such as governmental, non-governmental and international agencies, as well as universities, research organizations and private corporations dealing with the multitude of issues connected with migration, forced migration and refugees. 

Master's Degree and Graduate Diploma in Gender and Women's Studies   
The graduate program in Gender and Women’s Studies at AUC offers an interdisciplinary field of analysis that draws its questions and approaches from the humanities and social sciences through investigating how relations of gender are embedded in social, political, and cultural formations. It provides students with a unique interdisciplinary and transnational perspective with special emphasis on the Middle East and North African region.

Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) and Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Administration (DPPA)
The objectives of the MPPA program are to equip future leaders with the conceptual framework and the specific skills needed to be effective and innovative policymakers and administrators in various spheres of governance within governmental, regional, international and multinational institutions through structural course work, internship and research addressing public policy and administration issues in the region.

Master of Science in Biotechnology
The Master of Science program in biotechnology provides postgraduate education to prepare students for a career in biotechnology through the construction of a firm foundation in the science and engineering of biotechnology and to provide an introduction to bio entrepreneurship.