A welcome message from AUIS President Bruce Walker Ferguson

  My warmest welcome to the AUIS community, with a special welcome to our new students, faculty, and staff.   Since its founding in 2007 the University has grown into a leading institution for higher education in Iraq and its Kurdistan region. AUIS is a private, not-for-profit university operated for the public benefit and with no investors. We are student-centered.   Our students come from all over Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, from Erbil and Sulaimani, Mosul and Kirkuk, Baghdad and Basra, Najaf and Al Nasiriya, Germany and Australia. Some come from small towns, others from large cities. Some students are from wealthy families, others from refugee camps. Ninety percent of our students receive financial support from the University, governments, or private donors, including generous support from the U.S Government for students whose lives have been uprooted by war. All of our students attend AUIS because of the opportunities it offers for a better life for them, for their families, and for their...