Special Programs are academic programs for visiting groups of scholars and students that are designed especially to meet their needs. Examples range from programs in which AUC organizes everything from the moment a group arrives in Cairo until their departure, to those in which AUC works with a partner institution overseas and contributes specific components to it. Those components focus on the curricular elements, but can include logistical elements as well.

Special Academic Programs are designed by AUC with an overseas academic instituion for a group of students coming to AUC for a short period of time.  During this time the students will not be directly enrolled at AUC but rather participate in field studies that originate at their home instituion. The services that International Programs can provide range from organizing lectures to providing a comprehensive three week program. For more information, contact the Director of Special Academic Programs.

International partners with AUC has collaborated in the past include:

• Seaton Hall School of Law (NJ, USA)
• Ulsan University (Korea
• Carleton College (MN, USA)
• St. Olaf College, MN USA).

International Partners and Agreements

An International partnership is an institutional agreement between AUC and an international institution. The purposes of an international partnership or agreement are to encourage cooperation and collaboration in teaching, research, service, and student exchanges.

AUC has formed partnerships with a number of institutions around the the world in regions to which we would like to send our students, or links that we wish to forge between specific departments and institutions abroad.

Agreements between AUC and other institutions form the basis from which other activities in international education flow. Such agreements generally fall into three different categories:

• Memoranda of Understanding , (MOUs), which outline how two or more institutions will cooperate in the future
• Exchange Agreements , that imply an exchange of value, and usually include a tuition/fees/room/board swap in which students at one institution pay some combination of the above and swap places with students at another institution who have done the same
• Study Abroad Agreements, which are essentially billing agreements that establish a mechanism for ISABS to come to AUC.  

For more information about AUC's partnerships and agreements, please contact the Director of Study Abroad and Exchanges.