American University Top Questions

American University is a place where you can explore your passions, learn about issues, and connect with the best people in any field.

American University is what you make of it, and if you put yourself out there and get involved, it can provide great social, career and academic opportunities.

Hard working, costs a lot! Cut throat competitive, good club life around DC, people can be standoffish, people tend to stay within their own groups, administration is awful if you have a problem with the school.

American University is a campus of academically driven and active intelligent young people.

Very proud of being the most politically active school in America.

Very snobby and competative. People mostly focus on their school work and when it comes to weekend they all get drunk and stupid. There is no normal balance at the this school, you're either doing really well or you're dropping out or transferring. There's major pressure here.

The most politically active campus in the U.S.

American University provides students with an intellectually stimulating campus full of top-notch professors with convenient acess to a variety of internships of which the majority take advantage.

AU has something for everyone, just be prepared to debate the political rammifications..

It is a very friendly environment that is international, multicultural, and academically engaging. The students and professors love to engage each other at AU.

AU is a great place to study, the teachers are very knowledgable and the programs are great; the on campus community is also very fun and helpful.

It's a small school, with a great campus in a great city with so much to do!

My school is very diverse and gives several opportunities for academic and career advancement, all one has to do is take is advantage of them as they are presented.

American university is focused on politics and international relations, and is attended by wealthy liberals who mainly chose it because they didn't get into Georgetown or George Washington University, or because AU gave them more scholarship money.

Overall not bad but it really depends on the crowd you belong to.

My school is independent , dry and career focused.

There's a few people in every group, and there's no one social clique that dominates the campus.

All the academic and internship experience benefits of a big school with a wonder friendly small-town campus; we're a tight-knit community in the big city.

American is the school in DC for people who plan to get their hands dirty and do the substantive, impacting, and hard work involved in national politics and international relations.

A city school set up in the beautiful NW part of the city and allows for a lot of political activism.