Anglo-American University

Anglo-American University (AAU) is a private university located in the Thurn-Taxis Palace, a cultural monument dating to the 17th century in Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1990 with the aim of creating a higher education institution that would combine Central European university traditions with US and British academic principles, Anglo-American University is the first private university in the country to have used English as the language of instruction. In 2010, AAU was the first university outside the United States to be invited to apply for institutional accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). This accreditation was approved in 2016, with AAU becoming the first WASC-accredited university in Europe.