ADA is a school of international affairs and business dedicated to preparing innovative global leaders and to promoting useful collaborative research on diplomacy, international affairs and business. Currently, we offer Executive Education, Degree Programs and English Language Instruction. Because of this combination of goals and programs, ADA has a curriculum that is genuinely unique.
We put students at the very center of the ADA community, giving them the opportunity to tailor their education to meet their specific interests and needs. We challenge them to find solutions for today’s most pressing issues. And we promote initiative, teamwork and collaboration that are essential skills for future leaders.
ADA’s faculty, which includes scholars and practitioners both from Azerbaijan itself and from leading universities around the globe, contributes to this stimulating environment by engaging students in lively discussion in and outside the classroom and preparing them for rewarding careers in international affairs and business.
Founded by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chartered by a Presidential decree, ADA also offers the perfect setting to conduct academic and policy research on regional and international topics. ADA plays a significant role in developing a productive research climate and in stimulating a forum for innovative ideas in Azerbaijan.
It is these compelling differences – a singular focus on international affairs and business, an innovative model of learning, a unique setting for collaborative research – that are already making ADA a unique center of learning in an increasingly strategic region of which Azerbaijan is part.
ADA opened its doors to students in January 2007. Now housed in its temporary building, ADA will move to its permanent “green” and "smart" campus, which will open in downtown Baku, in September 2012.
We will move into our new campus with a significant program expansion as well. ADA will remain as a School of International Affairs, while we also plan and launch a School of Business. This new university will emerge in the new campus with both School of International Affairs and School of Business.
