Founded in 1866, the American University of Beirut is a teaching-centred research university based on the American liberal arts model of higher education. The University encourages freedom of thought and expression and seeks to graduate men and women committed to creative and critical thinking, lifelong learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.
AUB’s Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture leads the way to a better tomorrow in the Arab world and beyond. Through excellence in education and research, MSFEA addresses the hardest questions facing humanity and empowers individuals to make their own meaningful life paths.