American University of Sharjah

The American University of Sharjah, abbreviated AUS and written in Arabic as الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة, is a private not-for-profit coeducational university in University City in the emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and it is a separate institution from the public University of Sharjah that stands a short distance away沙迦美国大学（英文缩写 AUS，阿拉伯语校名为 الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة）是位于阿拉伯联合酋长国沙迦酋长国大学城的一所私立非营利男女同校大学，与相距不远的公立沙迦大学是两所各自独立的学校。

AUS was founded in 1997 by Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the Union and Ruler of Sharjah, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Exeter and a second doctorate in the political geography of the Gulf from Durham University沙迦美国大学由阿联酋最高委员会成员、沙迦酋长国统治者谢赫苏尔坦·本·穆罕默德·卡西米博士于 1997 年创办，他拥有埃克塞特大学历史学博士学位，以及杜伦大学海湾政治地理学博士学位。

The university teaches through four academic units, enrolled 6,727 students in fall 2025 alongside 390 full-time academic staff, and was placed in a tie for 258th place in the 2027 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings学校下设四个学术单位开展教学，2025 年秋季学期在校学生 6,727 人、全职教师 390 人，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列并列第 258 名。

History

• AUS was founded in 1997 by Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, who set out a vision of an independent university that would combine academic freedom with service to the economic, cultural and industrial life of the Gulf region沙迦美国大学于 1997 年由谢赫苏尔坦·本·穆罕默德·卡西米博士创办，他提出的办学愿景是一所享有自主权的大学，既坚持学术自由，又服务于海湾地区的经济、文化与产业生活。
• Classes began on 4 October 1997 with 285 students taught by 30 faculty members, a starting cohort that the university still cites as the baseline for its growth over the following three decades1997 年 10 月 4 日学校正式开课，首届 285 名学生由 30 名教师授课，这一起点至今仍被学校视为此后三十年规模扩张的基准。
• In 1998 Dr. Roderick French was appointed the first chancellor of AUS, the university was licensed by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the first Student Council elections were held1998 年，罗德里克·弗伦奇博士被任命为沙迦美国大学首任校长（chancellor），学校获得阿联酋高等教育与科研部颁发的办学许可，并举行了首届学生会选举。
• Architecture student Omran Al Owais, a UAE national, became the first Student Council president in 1998, and the university held its first AUS Global Day in the same year1998 年，阿联酋籍建筑专业学生奥姆兰·阿勒欧韦斯当选首任学生会主席，学校也在同一年举办了首届 AUS 全球日。
• A further licence from the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research followed in 1999, completing the federal and emirate-level approvals the institution needed to award its own degrees1999 年，学校又获得高等教育与科研部学术认证委员会颁发的许可，从而集齐了授予本校学位所需的联邦与酋长国两级批准。
• The first graduate programme, a Master of Business Administration offered by the School of Business and Management, opened to students in 2000, and the Hamid D. Jafar Pioneer Scholarship Fund was endowed the same year2000 年，学校首个研究生项目工商管理硕士（由商业与管理学院开设）开始招生，同年设立了哈米德·D. 贾法尔先锋奖学金基金。
• The first commencement was held in 2001 at University City Hall, where 82 students received degrees, and Nelson Mandela gave a lecture on education and its challenges at the university in the same year2001 年，学校在大学城礼堂举行首届毕业典礼，82 名学生获得学位；同年纳尔逊·曼德拉到校发表以教育与教育挑战为主题的演讲。
• Dr. Winfred Thompson became chancellor in 2002, and in 2004 the university secured accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education of the United States, the single most important external validation in its early history2002 年，温弗雷德·汤普森博士出任校长；2004 年，学校获得美国中部各州高等教育委员会的认证，这是其早期历史上最重要的一次外部认可。
• The year 2006 brought three milestones at once, as the new AUS Library opened, the undergraduate programmes of the College of Engineering gained ABET accreditation, and the business school was accredited by AACSB International2006 年学校同时迎来三项里程碑：新图书馆落成、工程学院本科专业获得 ABET 认证、商学院获得国际商学院联合会（AACSB）认证。
• Dr. Peter Heath was appointed chancellor in 2008, the year Sarah Al Shammari, a student from Saudi Arabia, was elected the first woman to lead the AUS Student Council for the 2007–2008 academic year2008 年，彼得·希思博士出任校长；同年，来自沙特阿拉伯的学生萨拉·阿勒沙马里当选学生会主席，成为 2007—2008 学年首位主持学生会的女性。
• The Performing Arts Program staged its first student production, a version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, on 29 April 2008, beginning a campus theatre tradition that has continued every year since2008 年 4 月 29 日，表演艺术专业推出首部学生制作的剧目《罗密欧与朱丽叶》，由此开启了一年一度的校园戏剧传统。
• Enrolment passed the 5,000 mark in 2009, and the university endowed its first named research chairs that year, including the Riad T. Sadik Chair in Civil Engineering and the Petrofac Research Chair in Renewable Energy2009 年，在校生规模突破 5000 人；学校同年设立了首批冠名研究讲席，其中包括里亚德·T. 萨迪克土木工程讲席与彼得罗法克可再生能源研究讲席。
• In 2010 the Bachelor of Architecture programme of the College of Architecture, Art and Design became the first degree of its kind outside North America to be accredited by the US National Architectural Accrediting Board2010 年，建筑、艺术与设计学院的建筑学学士学位项目成为北美以外第一个获得美国国家建筑认证委员会（NAAB）认证的建筑学位项目。
• On 13 June 2011 the Ruler of Sharjah inaugurated a new School of Business and Management building costing 90 million UAE dirhams, funded with support from the Government of Sharjah and Crescent Petroleum, and the school was later renamed the School of Business Administration2011 年 6 月 13 日，沙迦统治者为一座耗资 9000 万迪拉姆的商学院新楼揭幕，该楼由沙迦政府与新月石油公司支持建成，学院后来更名为工商管理学院。
• AUS entered the Quacquarelli Symonds world top 500 for the first time in 2012, and Forbes Middle East that year rated its MBA the best programme offered by a private university in the Gulf region2012 年，学校首次进入 QS 世界大学排名前 500 名；《福布斯中东》也在同年将其 MBA 评为海湾地区私立大学中的最佳项目。
• Visitors to the campus in 2013 included the Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in economics Thomas Sargent and the musician Quincy Jones, and the university received a Middle East Top 50 CIO award for its information systems work2013 年到访校园的客人包括诺贝尔经济学奖得主托马斯·萨金特与音乐人昆西·琼斯，学校还因信息系统建设获得中东 CIO 五十强奖项。
• Dr. Björn Kjerfve became chancellor in 2014, a year in which former US president Jimmy Carter and the novelist Dan Brown both spoke on campus and the university won a Green School award from the Emirates Green Building Council2014 年，比约恩·谢尔夫博士出任校长；同年美国前总统吉米·卡特与小说家丹·布朗先后来校演讲，学校还获得阿联酋绿色建筑委员会颁发的绿色校园奖项。
• In 2016 US News ranked the business school the top business school in the Arab world, the region's first interactive trading floor opened on campus, and the 2010 Nobel economics laureate Peter Diamond visited the university2016 年，《美国新闻与世界报道》将该商学院评为阿拉伯世界最佳商学院，中东地区首个交互式交易大厅在校园启用，2010 年诺贝尔经济学奖得主彼得·戴蒙德访问学校。
• The university marked its twentieth anniversary in 2017, when Times Higher Education placed AUS first in the world by proportion of international students, a position it held again the following year2017 年学校迎来建校二十周年，泰晤士高等教育当年将沙迦美国大学列为全球国际学生比例最高的大学，次年该校再次保持这一位置。
• AUS launched its first doctoral programme, the PhD in Engineering Systems Management, in 2018, and the UAE Pioneers Award honoured the university the same year as a prestigious centre for research and science2018 年，学校启动首个博士项目工程系统管理博士；同年阿联酋先锋奖授予学校「卓著科研与科学中心」称号。
• Professor Kevin Mitchell was appointed chancellor in 2019, when a new Engineering and Sciences building opened and Quacquarelli Symonds named AUS among the top 50 universities under 50 years old2019 年，凯文·米切尔教授出任校长；同年新工程与科学楼启用，QS 也将沙迦美国大学列入建校五十年以下大学五十强。
• The university moved to remote learning in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2021 Dr. Susan Mumm became its first woman chancellor while Mustafa Al Tekreeti, Taha Anjamrooz and Hasan Saleh Mahmoud became its first PhD graduates2020 年，学校在新冠疫情期间转为远程教学；2021 年苏珊·穆姆博士成为学校首位女性校长，穆斯塔法·阿勒泰克里提、塔哈·安贾姆鲁兹与哈桑·萨利赫·马哈茂德成为首批博士毕业生。
• The Silver Jubilee in 2022 marked 25 years since the university opened, and researchers in the College of Engineering completed what was reported as the world's first building constructed from conductive concrete2022 年的银禧校庆纪念学校开办 25 周年，工程学院的研究人员建成了据称是世界上第一座用导电混凝土建造的建筑。
• Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi became President of AUS and chairperson of its Board of Trustees in 2023, and Dr. Tod A. Laursen was appointed chancellor in the same year2023 年，谢赫巴杜尔·宾特·苏尔坦·卡西米出任沙迦美国大学校长（President）兼董事会主席，托德·A. 劳尔森博士同年被任命为校长（chancellor）。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into four academic units, namely the College of Architecture, Art and Design, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Business Administration学校的教学由四个学术单位承担，分别是建筑、艺术与设计学院，文理学院，工程学院，以及工商管理学院。
• The 2025 academic portfolio listed 33 undergraduate majors, 49 undergraduate minors, 24 master's degree programmes and eight doctoral programmes, a widening of the 26 majors and 16 master's degrees offered a decade earlier2025 年的专业清单显示学校开设 33 个本科主修专业、49 个本科辅修方向、24 个硕士学位项目和 8 个博士项目，较十年前的 26 个主修专业与 16 个硕士项目大幅扩展。
• The College of Engineering is the largest unit by enrolment, and its undergraduate programmes have carried ABET accreditation since 2006 across civil, chemical, computer, electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering工程学院是规模最大的学术单位，其土木工程、化学工程、计算机工程、电气工程、机械工程与工业工程等本科专业自 2006 年起持续获得 ABET 认证。
• The School of Business Administration has held AACSB International accreditation since 2006, offers the MBA launched in 2000, and was named the leading business school in the Arab world by US News in 2016工商管理学院自 2006 年起持有 AACSB 国际认证，开设 2000 年创办的 MBA 项目，并于 2016 年被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为阿拉伯世界领先的商学院。
• The Bachelor of Architecture, accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board in 2010, remains the only architecture degree outside North America to have held that United States accreditation2010 年获美国国家建筑认证委员会认证的建筑学学士项目，至今仍是北美以外唯一持有该美国认证的建筑学位项目。
• The College of Arts and Sciences houses departments in international studies, Arabic and translation studies, English, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics, and delivers the general education programme taken by every undergraduate文理学院下设国际研究、阿拉伯语与翻译研究、英语、生物学、化学、物理学与数学等系，并承担全体本科生必修的通识教育课程。
• The Center for Arab Studies and Islamic Civilizations operates within the College of Arts and Sciences and runs seminar series on literature, media, gender and the intellectual history of the Arab world阿拉伯研究与伊斯兰文明中心设在文理学院之内，围绕文学、媒介、性别以及阿拉伯世界思想史等主题举办系列研讨活动。
• Doctoral study began with the PhD in Engineering Systems Management in 2018 and produced its first three graduates in 2021, after which the doctorate portfolio was expanded to eight programmes学校的博士教育始于 2018 年的工程系统管理博士项目，2021 年培养出首批三名博士毕业生，此后博士项目扩展到 8 个。
• Endowed posts support specialist teaching and research, including the Dana Gas Chair in Chemical Engineering, the Bank of Sharjah Chair in Finance, the Ahmed Seddiqi Chair in Gulf and Arab Studies and the Chalhoub Professorship in Luxury Brand Management学校设有多项冠名讲席以支持专门领域的教学与研究，包括达纳天然气化学工程讲席、沙迦银行金融学讲席、艾哈迈德·塞迪奇海湾与阿拉伯研究讲席，以及舒豪奢侈品品牌管理教授职位。
• Philanthropic funds underpin much of the scholarship budget, among them the Asfari Foundation Pioneer Scholarship Fund created in 2008, the alumni fund created in 2009 and more than a dozen named pioneer funds奖学金预算很大一部分来自慈善捐赠，其中包括 2008 年设立的阿斯法里基金会先锋奖学金基金、2009 年设立的校友基金，以及十余项冠名先锋基金。
• The university reports 17 categories of scholarships and grants for undergraduates together with graduate assistantships and work-study placements, and schools across the country take part in the Sharakah partnership programme学校为本科生提供 17 类奖学金与助学金，并为研究生提供助教与勤工助学岗位，阿联酋各地中小学也参与了学校的 Sharakah 合作计划。
• Fall 2025 enrolment stood at 6,727 students, made up of 5,983 undergraduates, 531 master's students and 161 doctoral students, with 390 full-time academic staff and 563 administrative staff2025 年秋季学期的在校生为 6,727 人，其中本科生 5,983 人、硕士研究生 531 人、博士研究生 161 人，另有全职教师 390 人与行政人员 563 人。
• Students and faculty come from more than 100 countries, and the fall 2025 intake continued a pattern in which international students make up roughly three quarters of the student body学生与教师来自 100 多个国家，2025 年秋季学期的招生延续了一贯格局，国际学生约占学生总数的四分之三。
• The university is licensed by the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the UAE Ministry of Education and has held accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education since June 2004, most recently reaffirmed in 2019学校持有阿联酋教育部学术认证委员会颁发的办学许可，并自 2004 年 6 月起获得美国中部各州高等教育委员会认证，最近一次再确认为 2019 年。
• The Testing and Professional Development Center runs placement tests for new students and is the only centre in the United Arab Emirates administering the Fundamentals of Engineering and Professional Engineering examinations of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying测试与职业发展中心负责新生的分班测试，也是阿联酋唯一承办美国工程与测绘考试委员会基础工程（FE）与专业工程（PE）考试的考点。
• Graduate and executive provision includes an accelerated master's pathway for undergraduates, an international exchange office that places students at partner universities for a semester or a year, and a university press scheduled to open in fall 2026研究生与高管教育方面，学校为本科生提供加速硕士通道，国际交流办公室可安排学生到合作院校学习一学期或一学年，大学出版社则计划于 2026 年秋季启动。

Campus

• The campus lies in University City, about 16 kilometres from the centre of Sharjah city and roughly 25 kilometres from the neighbouring emirate of Dubai, placing it inside the largest concentration of higher education institutions in the country校园位于大学城，距沙迦市中心约 16 公里，距邻邦迪拜约 25 公里，处在阿联酋高校最密集的区域之内。
• The grounds cover 128 hectares, or 316 acres, and are laid out as an urban campus whose central core holds 12 academic buildings with classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, workshops, digital studios and faculty offices校园占地 128 公顷（合 316 英亩），呈城市型布局，中心区有 12 座教学楼，内设教室、阶梯教室、实验室、工坊、数字工作室与教师办公室。
• The AUS Library, opened in 2006, occupies 11,000 square metres, seats about 800 readers and holds a physical collection of roughly 141,000 items, mostly in English but with a growing Arabic-language holding2006 年启用的图书馆建筑面积 1.1 万平方米，约 800 个阅览座位，实体馆藏约 14.1 万册（件），以英文文献为主，阿拉伯语文献也在持续增加。
• The library also houses the AUS Archives, a repository for the records created by the university's academic and administrative departments since its foundation in 1997图书馆内还设有校档案馆，保存学校自 1997 年创校以来各学术与行政部门形成的档案记录。
• The 90-million-dirham business school building inaugurated in 2011 and the Engineering and Sciences building opened in 2019 are the two largest teaching structures added since the original campus core was completed2011 年揭幕、耗资 9000 万迪拉姆的商学院大楼，以及 2019 年启用的工程与科学楼，是校园核心区建成之后新增的两座最大教学建筑。
• Student housing is provided in residential halls inside the campus perimeter, and the same zone contains a large sports complex, dining outlets and the 1-million-dirham mass communication studio opened in 2014学生宿舍设在校园围墙之内的宿舍楼中，同一区域还配有大型体育综合体、餐饮网点，以及 2014 年启用、造价 100 万迪拉姆的大众传播演播室。
• Athletic provision covers 33 teams that compete in regional tournaments in athletics, basketball, football and other sports under the Leopard banner学校的体育设施支撑 33 支运动队，它们以「豹」为标识，参加田径、篮球、足球等项目的地区赛事。
• The university's outreach arm works with more than 170 partner schools across the United Arab Emirates, and the campus sits beside the other institutions of University City rather than inside a residential district of Sharjah学校的对外合作部门与阿联酋各地 170 多所伙伴学校开展合作，校园与大学城的其他院校相邻，而非坐落在沙迦的居住区内。

Reputation

• In the 2027 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings AUS was placed in a tie for 258th place, an improvement on the 272nd position it held in the 2026 edition在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，沙迦美国大学位列并列第 258 名，较 2026 年版的第 272 名有所提升。
• Times Higher Education placed the university in the 501 to 550 band of its 2027 World University Rankings, and ranked it 143rd in its Asia University Rankings 2026泰晤士高等教育在其 2027 年世界大学排名中把学校列入 501—550 名次区间，并在 2026 年亚洲大学排名中将其列为第 143 名。
• U.S. News and World Report ranked AUS in a tie for 894th place in the 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, which made it the seventh ranked institution in the United Arab Emirates behind University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates University and Khalifa University of Science and Technology在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，沙迦美国大学位列并列第 894 名，在阿联酋排名第七，排在沙迦大学、阿联酋大学和哈利法科学技术大学之后。
• Abu Dhabi University, Ajman University and Zayed University were the other three Emirati institutions ranked above AUS in that 2026-2027 edition, which evaluated 2,250 universities from 105 countries在 2026-2027 年度榜单中，排在沙迦美国大学之前的另外三所阿联酋高校是阿布扎比大学、阿治曼大学与扎耶德大学，该版榜单共评估了来自 105 个国家的 2250 所大学。
• AUS did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, although its civil engineering subject was placed in the 301 to 400 band of the 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects沙迦美国大学未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，但其土木工程学科进入了 2026 年世界一流学科排名的 301—400 区间。
• Times Higher Education ranked AUS 124th in its 2024 Young University Rankings, and in 2019 Quacquarelli Symonds listed the university among the world's top 50 institutions founded within the previous fifty years泰晤士高等教育在 2024 年青年大学排名中把沙迦美国大学列为第 124 名；QS 则在 2019 年将其列入建校五十年内世界五十强。
• The university topped the Times Higher Education measure of international student proportion in 2017 and 2018, when more than four fifths of its students held nationality other than that of the host country学校在 2017 年与 2018 年两次位居泰晤士高等教育国际学生比例榜首，当时超过五分之四的学生持非所在国国籍。
• OpenAlex had indexed 11,520 research works from the university by 2026, with 443,656 recorded citations, a scale of output built in less than three decades from the 1997 founding截至 2026 年，OpenAlex 已收录学校 11,520 篇研究成果，记录被引 443,656 次，这一产出规模是在 1997 年建校后不到三十年内积累起来的。
• Subject-level recognition includes the 2010 National Architectural Accrediting Board accreditation of the architecture degree, the 2006 ABET and AACSB accreditations, and the 2016 ranking of the business school as the best in the Arab world学科层面的认可包括 2010 年建筑学位获得的美国国家建筑认证委员会认证、2006 年取得的 ABET 与 AACSB 认证，以及 2016 年商学院被评为阿拉伯世界最佳。

Student life

• More than 100 clubs and organisations are registered on campus, covering cultural, academic, community service and professional interests, and the university describes the range as one of the widest in the Gulf校园注册的学生社团与组织超过 100 个，涵盖文化、学术、社区服务与职业发展等方向，学校称这一规模在海湾地区名列前茅。
• Student publications give practical writing experience through three titles, The Leopard, Realms and Arabian Leopard, which publish student journalism, creative writing and photography学校通过《The Leopard》《Realms》与《Arabian Leopard》三份学生刊物提供写作实践机会，分别刊载学生新闻、创意写作与摄影作品。
• The AUS Model United Nations conference is organised annually by the Department of International Studies and brings together secondary school and university delegates from across the region沙迦美国大学模拟联合国大会由国际研究系每年主办，汇集本地区的中学生与大学生代表参加。
• AUS Global Day, first held in 1998, remains the longest-running campus tradition and presents the food, dress and performance of the many nationalities represented among students and staff始于 1998 年的 AUS 全球日是校园里历史最悠久的传统活动，展示师生所属各民族的饮食、服饰与表演。
• Student Council elections have been held every year since 1998, and the council presidency has been held by women since Sarah Al Shammari's election for the 2007-2008 academic year学生会选举自 1998 年起每年举行，自萨拉·阿勒沙马里当选 2007—2008 学年主席以来，主席职位多次由女性担任。
• The Performing Arts Program has staged student theatre every year since its 2008 debut, and the campus also hosts TEDx events, film scoring workshops and poetry readings through the College of Arts and Sciences表演艺术专业自 2008 年首演以来每年推出学生戏剧，校园还经由文理学院举办 TEDx 活动、电影配乐工作坊与诗歌朗诵会。
• Sports teams play under the Leopard name in burgundy and white, and the university fields 33 teams that travel to tournaments across the region in athletics, basketball, football and other disciplines校队以「豹」为名、以酒红与白色为队色，共有 33 支队伍前往本地区各地参加田径、篮球、足球等项目的赛事。
• Sustainability work has been recognised repeatedly, with a Green School award in 2014, Sustainable Campus Initiative honours in 2017 and 2020, and a STARS Silver rating awarded in 2021学校的可持续工作屡获认可，包括 2014 年的绿色校园奖、2017 年与 2020 年的可持续校园倡议奖项，以及 2021 年获得的 STARS 银级评级。

Notable people

• Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi founded the university in 1997 and remains Ruler of Sharjah, combining that office with a scholarly career as a historian of the Gulf region谢赫苏尔坦·本·穆罕默德·卡西米博士于 1997 年创办该校，至今担任沙迦统治者，同时以海湾史学者的身份从事学术研究。
• Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi became President of AUS and chairperson of the Board of Trustees in 2023, adding the university's presidency to her work in publishing and cultural advocacy谢赫巴杜尔·宾特·苏尔坦·卡西米于 2023 年出任沙迦美国大学校长兼董事会主席，在出版与文化倡导工作之外又承担了大学校长的职责。
• Dr. Roderick French served as the first chancellor from 1998, and later chancellors included Winfred Thompson from 2002, Peter Heath from 2008, Björn Kjerfve from 2014, Kevin Mitchell from 2019, Susan Mumm from 2021 and Tod A. Laursen from 2023罗德里克·弗伦奇博士自 1998 年起担任首任校长，其后历任校长包括 2002 年上任的温弗雷德·汤普森、2008 年的彼得·希思、2014 年的比约恩·谢尔夫、2019 年的凯文·米切尔、2021 年的苏珊·穆姆与 2023 年的托德·A. 劳尔森。
• Nelson Mandela spoke at the university in 2001 on education and its challenges, and former United States president Jimmy Carter gave a public address on campus in 2014纳尔逊·曼德拉于 2001 年到校演讲，主题为教育及其挑战；美国前总统吉米·卡特于 2014 年在校园发表公开演讲。
• The economist Thomas Sargent, laureate of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, lectured at AUS in 2013, and Peter Diamond, the 2010 laureate in the same prize, visited in 20162011 年诺贝尔经济学奖得主托马斯·萨金特于 2013 年在沙迦美国大学演讲，同一奖项 2010 年得主彼得·戴蒙德于 2016 年到访。
• The musician Quincy Jones visited the campus in 2013 and the novelist Dan Brown spoke there in 2014, both appearances arranged as public lectures open to students音乐人昆西·琼斯于 2013 年到访校园，小说家丹·布朗于 2014 年到校演讲，两场活动都以面向学生开放的公开讲座形式安排。
• Sarah Al Amiri, who chairs the United Arab Emirates Council of Scientists and served as deputy project manager of the Emirates Mars Mission, is among the university's best-known graduates阿联酋科学家委员会主席、阿联酋火星任务副总设计师萨拉·阿勒阿米里是学校最知名的毕业生之一。
• Sheikha Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi, an AUS graduate, became the first woman to hold a ministerial post in the United Arab Emirates and served as Minister of Economic and Planning from 2004 to 2008 before taking the foreign trade portfolio谢赫卢布娜·哈立德·卡西米是该校毕业生，也是阿联酋首位出任部长职务的女性，2004 年至 2008 年任经济与规划部长，此后主管对外贸易事务。
• Mishal Hamed Kanoo, chairman of the Kanoo Group, is a graduate of the university, as is Mona Kattan, chief executive of the fragrance house Kayali卡努集团主席米沙勒·哈米德·卡努是该校毕业生，香水品牌 Kayali 的首席执行官莫娜·卡坦同样毕业于该校。
• Cultural graduates include the filmmaker Fadel Al Mheiri, the architect and curator Fatma Ibrahim Al Sehlawi and the media executive Mohammed Saeed Al Shehhi, and Adib Fahim, formerly a deputy intelligence director of Afghanistan, also studied at AUS文化与传媒领域的毕业生包括电影人法德尔·阿勒姆海里、建筑师兼策展人法特玛·易卜拉欣·阿勒塞赫拉维与传媒高管穆罕默德·赛义德·阿勒谢希，阿富汗前情报部门副主管阿迪卜·法希姆也曾在该校就读。
• Dalia Hamati, a faculty member in architecture, was appointed curator of the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2027建筑专业的教师达莉娅·哈马提获任 2027 年威尼斯建筑双年展阿联酋国家馆的策展人。