The Association of American Universities (AAU) focuses on issues that are important to research intensive universities, such as funding for research, research policy issues, and graduate and undergraduate education.

The AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen universities offering the Ph.D. degree. The AAU currently consists of sixty American universities and two Canadian universities.

The association serves its members in two major ways. First, it assists them in developing national policy positions on issues that relate to academic research and graduate and professional education. Second, it provides them with a forum for discussing a broad range of other institutional issues, such as undergraduate education.

Please visit us at http://www.aau.edu