Anglo-American University (AAU) is the oldest private university in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1990, shortly after the collapse of communism, as the Anglo-American College (AAC) by Jansen Raichl and Dr. Vlasta Raichlová. Their vision was to create an educational institution that would combine the best of American and British academic principles with Central European traditions.  AAU has consistently attracted strong credentials to its academic community. Today it prides itself with gifted undergraduate and graduate students from over 60 countries and a renowned multinational faculty trained at fine universities around the world, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and others. AAU alumni have excelled in their professional careers and enjoy work worldwide in top positions in business, academia, politics, diplomacy and media. AAU is a very international university with an unusually diverse student body (typically more than 60 nationalities are represented; only about 30% of students are Czech or Slovak). This is a result of using English as a medium of instruction, which allows us to recruit very widely, but at the same time predisposes our international activities in certain specific directions.  Our international strategy emerges from and develops this demographic reality. The diverse ethnic and cultural mix of our classrooms already goes some way towards preparing students for the challenges of the modern world, but this cannot substitute for the direct experience of living or studying abroad. (Source: the university’s website)