AUCA Open Doors Day - Master's programs

May 10, 2016

April 30, 2016, the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) held an Open Doors Day for its Master’s programs. Attendees received materials explaining the programs’ application procedures, listened to guest lectures relevant to each program, and sat in on seminars explaining the benefits of getting a Master’s at AUCA.

Starting in the 2016-2017 academic year, AUCA will offer seven different Master’s programs:

• Anthropology
• Central Asian Studies
• Psychology
• Master’s of Business Administration (MBA)
• Sociology
• Economics
• Law (LL.M.)

International Partner Universities of AUCA’s Master’s programs:

• Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (USA)
• Indiana University Kelley School of Business (USA)
• New Economic School (Russia)
• Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway)
• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)
• Colorado State University (USA)
• SolBridge International School of Business (South Korea)
• University of Trento (Italy)
• International University of Japan (Japan)
• University of Tromsø (Norway)
• Central European University (Hungary)

“The Master’s degree programs are designed with a focus on professional qualification. A Master’s degree offers you more serious specializations, allowing you to advance your work potential. Today, you have the opportunity to talk to representatives from each of our Master’s program and learn more about them. At the core of each of our programs is AUCA’s basic pedagogical mission: to make you think and to make you work,” said the president of AUCA, Andrew Wachtel.

Seth Fearey, an assistant professor in the MBA program, added, “How many of you are working now and feel like it is hard for you to advance in your career? This is a good reason why you might want to get a Master’s degree. Your dream might be to help others, to raise your salary, to work in climate change or politics—a Master’s degree can help you make those dreams real by providing you with the specialized training you need to work in those areas and get those kinds of jobs.”

Professor Frank Emmert, a member of the faculty of law at Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law, said “when AUCA wanted to open an LL.M. program, the first thing president Wachtel did was call up Indiana University and tell us he wanted to do it together. We knew that AUCA provides its students a high quality education, so of course we said we wanted to do this together! AUCA’s LL.M. is a two-year program designed for working people who are busy during the day. The first two semesters you study at AUCA (the second of those semesters Indiana University sends professors to teach you at AUCA). The third semester you come to Indiana University, see the United States, and, of course, study with Indiana University students and professors. Afterwards, you come back to AUCA and write your thesis. In the end you receive both a Kyrgyz State diploma and an LL.M. from Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law.”

Important dates for applying to AUCA:

Admissions exams: April 3, May 22, July 3, August 6, 2016.

Registration deadline for exams: March 30, May 18, June 28, 2016.

Final application deadline: July 11, August 13, 2016.

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