For over 40 years, AUIP has been providing programs that combine rigorous academic study with opportunities for experiential learning. Learn about our destinations, passionate team, and long-term partner universities.
About AUIP
Founded by faculty for faculty, AUIP (American Universities International Programs Limited) has provided universities with experiential and academically rigorous short-term and semester-long programs since 1971. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, AUIP provides you with regional expertise for travel and academic, as well as access to hundreds of local suppliers. You can draw on one of AUIP’s well-established flagship programs on topics such as sustainability and the environment, or customize your own program. Transform your classroom and ground your program in experiential learning at a single site or between multiple locations in Antarctica or across New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji.
AUIP Mission
AUIP strives to provide the highest quality academic and logistics support for faculty-led study abroad programs in the South Pacific. We work with universities to develop experiential programs that equip students to engage globally, sustain the natural environment, and work across cultures at home and abroad.
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AUIP provides both consortium and customized programs to best meet the needs of partner universities and faculty.
AUIP DESTINATIONS:
NEW ZEALAND
An isolated island nation in its evolutionary infancy, New Zealand is the most recently inhabited country in the world
AUSTRALIA
Australia is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, both in terms of its landscapes and its multicultural population