abstract:The American University in Dubai (AUD) () is a private, for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1995. AUD was founded in 1995 as a branch campus of American InterContinental University in Atlanta, Georgia, but turned into a private, non-sectarian institution in 2007.
Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The AmericanUniversityinDubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).