Mission Statement
of the American University in Kyrgyzstan

According to the AUK Charter, the University has been formed as an international university operating in the tradition of the American liberal arts college:

1. to operate and maintain a degree-granting University that trains scholars in humanities, social science, international relations, law, business and natural sciences and other subjects and which may confer certificates and degrees at the baccalaureate, master's and doctoral levels, provided that programs leading to such degrees meet the standards of registration;

2. to develop a new curriculum to be taught in the University to help educate a new corps of leaders in the Kyrgyz Republic and in other nations of Central Asian region and elsewhere;

3. to raise standards and methods of teaching and research in the Kyrgyz Republic and throughout the region and in this process to be informed by American methods and standards;

4. to foster cooperation and understanding among the citizens and nations of the region;

5. to create and disseminate educational and methodological literature.