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The morning after Bulgaria celebrated a historic first victory at the Eurovision Song Contest, the AUBG community gathered for another moment of pride, joy, and ...

At just eight years of age, Andrea Kotsinova received her first snowboard and started practicing in her living room. For about a week, she would turn between the furniture, unintentionally announcing her new passion to ...

Students today have a wide choice of sustainability-related programs that go beyond environmental studies and explore how ecology intersects with other areas, such as the Sustainability Studies minor at AUBG and the Ecomedia course ...

A city looks different through everyone’s eyes, especially when those people share a similar lifeline – their AUBG experience.  In “The Alumni Diaries”, we take you on a journey across ...

Professor Nikos Fatouros joined AUBG in the 2024/2025 academic year and is already serving as the Interim Chair of the Economics Department.  His research interests go ...

Students often describe the AUBG campus in Blagoevgrad as a “second home”. It’s a place of community, connection, and growth. It’s where they nurture their sweetest memories ...

Computer science and information systems are some of the faster evolving fields, and a major in these disciplines will open career paths in technical, non-technical ...

The direction U.S. higher education is heading has many Americans considering a study destination that’s long had its appeal as a timeless hub of ...

Simona Atanasova didn’t plan to work in public health. She once thought she’d become a dentist. But that idea quickly gave way to a broader ...

Each spring semester, there’s a buzz that begins to build long before the official opening ceremony. It's quiet at first—just a few students gathered around ...

Can education help fight disinformation in the murky world of fake news and AI-generated content? And how can young, bright people influence ministries to adopt ...

Borbala (Bori) Cox’s ('99) career changed when she decided after a decade of doing to closely examine what she could really excel at. Many people ...

Who is shaping the agenda of your life? This was the questio  posed to young people by Metodi Baykushev, Mayor of Blagoevgrad, and Mariya Gabriel ...

Soft jazz music welcomed us into the ambiently decorated room. The spacious AUBG Sports Hall was transformed into a festive space, where the dimmed lights ...

Plamen Monovski was a member of the first class to graduate from the American University in Bulgaria in 1995.  He’s now one of more

Yordanka Martin ('08) has plenty of good ideas and cases to make. But getting big organizations to act in their best interests is not as ...

At first blush, it may seem odd that a graduate of AUBG would choose a career with a global energy company, one of the contributors ...

Brigita Andonova ('24) was the Student Speaker for the 30th Commencement Ceremony. Brigita has not only completed her BA in Business Administration and Economics but ...

Gabriella Shetreet studies for a dual major in Art History and Literature at the University of Maine. This semester though, she is part of the ...

In 2023, AUBG maintains its position among the top institutions in the Bulgarian University Rankings. AUBG stands out in various academic disciplines, securing leading positions

Professor Didar Erdinc teaches Econometrics and is a Senior Thesis supervisor at AUBG where she has been working for 26 years now.  “I cannot imagine