The American University of Paris

For 55 years, our mission has been to provide students from around the globe with a life-altering university experience that crosses disciplines, cultures and boundaries, allowing them to successfully achieve their professional goals where they want to go. The American University in Paris, at the crossroads of American educational values ​​and a global orientation towards teaching and learning, did not flinch from the original premise of its founding: to help you question the comfort zone, step by step took the knowledge, get to know people from around the globe and meet your Academic and professional expectations for themselves. We believe that only when you are at home in the world can you forge your place in it. When Lloyd Delamater, a 40-year-old former State Department official, decided in 1962 to found an American college in Paris, his idea was far ahead of his time. Indeed, whether due to the decisively international inclinations of his life, was born in New York, he was a veteran of the war, held degrees from several international institutions, married a Frenchwoman, and lived throughout Europe, in his role as an external service to the US and NATO An officer or his extensive observations in post-war Europe, DeLamater quickly realize that the world can not survive as a disparate blend of individual countries and peoples with little connection between them. He sought "to bridge the gap of narrow nationalisms," the establishment of an institution that will train those who are willing to explore the world far beyond their homeland.