Bishkek is a very progressive city. I was impressed by the level of education here and the cooperation of women alongside men in order to have a better quality of life. I like and appreciate the culture of tolerance and diversity here. I believe that education is the only thing which enlightens people’s hearts and minds.

In March 8th, 2015 students of Business Administration from AUCA visited the World Business Dialogue in Cologne, Germany, which is one of the largest international student-run business conventions worldwide.

 Aidai Kadyralieva is one of our exchange students currently studying at Bard College. She shared her experience about her semester - living and studying abroad, with us.

With an AUCA degree in sociology in hand, I started my career by furthering my sociological imagination at Ball State University’s Department of Sociology (USA).  In 2003, I returned to my alma mater to teach and learn from my students during seven marvelous years in the Sociology Department.

Teaching or flying? I very much like being a flying English teacher. I am passionate about teaching, I love meeting students from all over the world.

Chynara Baichaeva and Dair Bozgunchiev shared their stories and experience of working at one of the world’s largest companies with us.

On January 10th 2014, two students of Journalism and Mass Communications at AUCA won in the national online photo contest "Authentic stories of life" that has been organized on the eve of an international photo exhibition of World Press Photo 2014. Aipery Janyzak took 1st place in the contest while Tatyana Esaulenko won the audience choice award.  

Aimeerim grew up in Osh and she went to NGA because of the scholarship and AUCA’s reputation. Aimeerim has been learning English for 3 years and she is planning to work in the international arena in future.

If you are walking through the administrative offices here at the American University of Central Asia, you might be surprised to find a new nameplate. Where the Development Office used to be, is now the home of the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Dr. Karim Zerhouni.

Students from the Journalism and Mass Communications department of the Cultural Reporting class, taught by Laura Kelly, published a magazine called "Juicy".