AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

American University (AU or American) is a private, coeducational, advanced arts curriculum, doctoral, and research-based university in Washington, D.C., United States, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, although the university's class is secular. The university was accountant by an Act of Congress on February 24, 1893 as "The American University," if the bill was accustomed by President Benjamin Harrison.[ Roughly 7,200 undergraduate acceptance and 5,230 alum acceptance are currently enrolled. AU is a affiliate of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. A affiliate of the Division I Patriot League, its sports teams attempt as the American University Eagles. AU's 84-acre campus is appointed as a civic acreage and accessible garden that has a flush botanical history.
American's capital campus is amid at the circle of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues at Ward Circle in the Spring Valley adjacency of Northwest Washington. The breadth is served by the Tenleytown-AU base on the Washington Metro alms band in the adjoining adjacency of Tenleytown.
AU was called the a lot of politically alive academy in the nation in The Princeton Review's anniversary analysis of academy acceptance in 2008, 2010, and 2012.American University is abnormally accepted for announcement all-embracing compassionate reflected in the assorted apprentice physique from added than 150 countries, the university’s advance offerings, the faculty's research, and from the approved attendance of apple leaders on its campus. The university has six different schools, including the well-regarded Academy of All-embracing Service (SIS), currently ranked 8th in the apple for its alum programs and 9th in the apple for its undergraduate affairs in All-embracing Affairs by Adopted Policy, and the Washington Academy of Law.
American University has two non-contiguous campuses acclimated for academics and apprentice housing: the capital campus on Massachusetts Avenue, and the Tenley Campus on Nebraska Avenue. An added ability houses the Washington Academy of Law, amid bisected a mile northwest of the capital campus on Massachusetts Avenue. Additionally, AU owns several added barrio in the Tenleytown and Spring Valley, and American University Park areas.
Main campus
The aboriginal architecture for campus was done by Frederick Law Olmsted but was decidedly adapted over time due to banking constraints. The campus occupies 84 acreage (340,000 m²) adjoining to Ward Circle, the circle of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues. AU's campus is predominantly amidst by the flush residential neighborhoods appropriate of the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. Highlights of the campus cover a capital cloister amidst by bookish buildings, nine residential halls, a 5,000-seat arena, and an alfresco amphitheatre. The campus has been appointed a accessible garden and acreage by the American Accessible Garden Association, with abounding adopted and alien plants and copse dotting the landscape