Faculties and Programs
AUB offers more than 140 programs leading to bachelor's, master's, MD, and PhD degrees.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business
Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Rafic Hariri School of Nursing
Interfaculty Programs
In addition to 36 certificates and diplomas, and 44 online programs
Check degrees offered here
Language of Instruction: English (except for courses in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages)
Academic Degrees Awarded in 2024-25
1,392 undergraduate and 828 graduate (including 27 PhDs, 93 MDs, 562 master’s degrees, and 146 diplomas)
Total number of degrees and diplomas that AUB has awarded to date: 110,713
Enrollment (as of October 15, 2025)
9,759 students (8,300 full-time, 1,459 part-time), representing 90 countries (including Lebanon)
5,108 female (52%), 4,651 male (48%) Citizenship: 83% Lebanese, 17% international
There are currently 1,746 students enrolled in master’s and executive master’s degree programs and 143 doctoral students at AUB.
Volunteering
During the 2024-25 academic year, 381 AUB students engaged in 628 volunteering rotations and community-based internships completing 13,257 hours with 191 community partners.
The Office of Student Affairs includes more than 80 active clubs and societies.
Cost of university housing
The cost for university housing ranges from $1,600 for a standard double room to $4,100 for a suite per person, per academic term.
Tuition 2024-25
The tuition and fees of full-time undergraduate programs vary depending on the student’s faculty, major, and year.
Undergraduate tuition
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences: $27,582
Faculty of Arts and Sciences: ,012 to $25,602 f
Faculty of Health Sciences: 2 :
Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture: $39,384 (includes mandatory summer term)
Rafic Hariri School of Nursing: $28,503 (includes mandatory summer term)
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business: $29,502
Graduate tuition
Faculty of Medicine: $47,108
Operating budget and endowment
AUB’s investment pool was valued at $896 million on June 30, 2025.
Assistance 2024-25
Scholarships and awards: $101.2 million
Funding
Hospital fees, student fees and tuition, private gifts and grants, endowment income, and other restricted resources
Faculty
Total number of instructional faculty (as of October 15, 2025): 1,123 (829 full-time, 294 part-time)
Faculty breakdown by gender: 606 males, 517 females
Staff
Campus Non-Academic Staff (Management and Non-Management): 1,459 (788 males, 671 females)
Faculty of Medicine: 96 (27 males, 69 females)
AUB Medical Center: 2,262 (1,167 females, 1,095 males)
Alumni
AUB's more than 82,000 alumni live in more than 135 countries around the world.
Size
Campus: 61.2 acres
Advancing Research Enabling Communities Center (AREC): 244.8-acre research farm and educational facility in the Beqaa
Facilities
64 buildings, including medical center (365 beds), the Charles Hostler Student Center (athletics), 4 libraries, 3 museums, 2 art galleries, 7 dormitories (1,281 beds), athletic fields.
Libraries
- 4 libraries: Nami Jafet Memorial Library (main library), Saab Memorial Medical Library, the Engineering and Architecture Library, and the Science and Agriculture Library
- State-of-the-art computer labs
- Fully automated electronic classrooms providing remote access to electronic databases, books, periodicals, and reference materials
- 32 professionals and 39 support staff
The libraries' materials include:
- 2.4 million print and electronic volumes of books
- 5,623 print periodicals
- hundreds of newspapers
- more than 1 million audiovisual items – many dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries
The libraries also:
- subscribe to over 430 databases
- provide access to 203,300 periodicals
- are currently working on digitizing 10,000 pre-1956 print Arabic books
have 2,434 linear feet of archival material, 11,500 posters, 2,000 maps, 102,000 photos, as well as 1,800 mainly Arabic manuscripts.
The American University of Beirut is classified by the US Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.