AUM is a private, accredited, American-style liberal arts university in Malta. We’re committed to providing a top-quality education that empowers our students and provides them with the skills necessary to be contributing global citizens and leaders in their professional and personal lives.
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American University of Malta
Triq Dom Mintoff Bormla, BML 1013
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Student Life in Malta
No university experience is complete without a varied social calendar. While choosing just how to fill that calendar’s slots remains at your discretion, and may consist entirely of informal get-togethers on your part with classmates and friends, AUM offers you the additional option of organized activities. This way, we contribute to making your experience here a well-rounded and memorable one!
The list of AUM-sponsored activities is long and diverse. From beach outings to island-wide cultural expeditions, nights on the town to parties at the off-campus student dorms, we are keen to ensure that you have plenty of opportunities for fun and the forging of lasting friendships.
Indeed, our Student Affairs office not only oversees matters pertaining to your housing and official paperwork, but is dedicated to helping you have a blast for the duration of your time here, fostering a bit of school spirit along the way, and ultimately creating fond and enduring memories!
In the Thick of Things: The AUM Campus
At once picturesque and historically significant – that's how we'd describe the area surrounding the AUM campus. For an idea of what to visit, from formidable forts to cozy cafés, check this out...
Maltese Festa: It Takes a Village...To Throw a Party
"All politics is local," as the saying goes. In Malta, aside from a few national occasions, so is the festa! And each village has an annual one, meaning that you have plenty of occasions to wear your party hat!
Of Nymphs and Captive Lovers
You remember Homer's The Odyssey, right? In that epic poem, Odysseus is imprisoned for several years by the nymph Calypso on an island called Ogygia. Well, legend has it that the Maltese isle of Gozo is in fact Ogygia!
Location
AUM is located in Bormla, also known as Cospicua, one of Malta’s storied and clustered-together Three Cities. The area not only boasts a rich and varied history, but thrums with daily activity. Charming restaurants and cafés line the idyllic waterfront, shopping is affordable, locals are friendly and helpful, and a bus service links the district to the rest of the country. As if that weren’t enough to make life here both stimulating and fun, Valletta, the island nation’s cosmopolitan capital, is a mere five-minute ferry ride away!
History & Identity
AUM was established in 2016. The campus occupies one side of a longtime and still very much operational dock, where sailboats and other seafaring vessels – including the ferry to and from Valletta – come and go year-round. Our flagship building, formerly part of a British naval facility that proved indispensable to the Allied cause during the Second World War, recently underwent extensive renovation. With additional levels and wings (as well as the restoration of an architecturally distinctive façade), the building now houses classrooms, laboratories, offices, the library, and a student lounge. In many ways, AUM’s hybrid identity, which melds a decidedly 21st century sensibility with a discerning appreciation of the past, and an American-style educational system with openness to a European cultural milieu, finds physical expression in our beautiful campus.
Why AUM?
At AUM, you receive an American-style education in a global language and a European setting.
Upon graduating, you can capitalize on your location in a European Union country to investigate a host of ever-present job opportunities across the EU.
Malta affords easy access to all the major metropolitan centers of Europe, home to everything from established megacompanies to feisty startups, and is itself shaping up as the blockchain and cryptocurrency capital of the world.
Whether you choose to pursue your career in Europe or any other continent, you will set out well-equipped to meet the challenge.
Indeed, we place great emphasis on the practical application of knowledge. A course of study at AUM entails instruction at the hands of highly qualified faculty drawn from an array of countries, complemented by direct and sustained exposure to real-world business practices and conditions.
Ultimately, AUM is determined to shepherd its students through the various stages of academe and into the job market that best suits them.
Message from the AUM President
Dr. Lewis Walker
The American University of Malta, or AUM, is a new university for a new world.
I envisage AUM as a cutting-edge, student-centered educational institution that meets the myriad and urgent needs of our still relatively young century. We aim to equip students from across the globe with the requisite critical thinking skills and far-reaching knowledge to become creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, and ethical leaders prepared for the challenges, uncertainties, risks, and opportunities of a rapidly changing world.
Woven into the fabric of AUM’s mission is a strong focus on ethics and the imperative of a social conscience. We want our graduates to be cognizant of their responsibilities toward a too often conflict-ridden humanity and an increasingly ravaged planet. Cultural literacy, respect for others, and sensitivity to the environmental impact of our choices will complement the hard and fast knowledge of economic forces and business practices that AUM instills in its students. The excellence we strive to nurture is one of both mind and heart.
