Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities

The Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU) is as a consortium of leading liberal arts universities located in countries and regions in East, South and Southeast Asia. Formed in November 2017,[1] AALAU enable member universities to renew and reinvigorate the liberal arts education traditions and development. Its Alliance Secretariat located in Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities
Formation2017
TypeNonprofit organisation
HeadquartersHong Kong
Location
  • 7 countries and regions
Membership
25
Websiteaalau.org
Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese亞洲博雅大學聯盟
Simplified Chinese亚洲博雅大学联盟
Korean name
Hangul아시아 리버럴 아츠 대학 연합
Japanese name
Kanjiアジアリベラルアーツ大学連合

Overview

Due to the fact that university rankings have not been able to present teaching quality for a long time, 15 of universities with similar visions and characteristics have formed the alliance.[2]

The founding member universities of AALAU are all well-known universities in their respective countries, their common feature is highly internationalized, high social reputation, and high education quality (high graduate achievement). Some of these members were selected as the "Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges In Asia" by Forbes.[3]

Membership

The Alliance features 15 founding member universities (marking †).[4] At present, AALAU has 25 members.[5]

Hong Kong

Mainland China

Taiwan

Japan

South Korea

India

Thailand

See also

References

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