III. Institution and International Cooperation

PUC is a private institution. It is the first higher learning institution in Cambodia that provides English based education in all subjects, and is officially authorized and accredited by the Royal Government of Cambodia to grant degrees in Bachelors, Masters, and PhDs to qualified students. PUC adopts an international standard curriculum generally used by American and other developed countries’ colleges and universities (combining General Education and Major Core subjects). This academic model assures that credit units and degrees earned at PUC will be recognized by and equivalent to those of other universities abroad.

From our founding, we have taken our role most seriously to educate and empower future leaders. PUC strives to provide top quality instructions and to play a leadership role in local, national, regional, and global affairs. Our faculty members are drawn from business, government, NGO, and academia from around the world, including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, India, the Philippines, etc.

In order to integrate our graduates into the ASEAN and international community, we use English as our primary vehicle of learning. Indeed, PUC is the only university in Cambodia to offer all instruction and textbooks in English. That is the reason why in less than four years, we have become very well known in the region, and are recognized as the university in Cambodia with the strictest enrollment requirement. Each year student applications are increasing so fast that we cannot absorb all the demand but select only a reasonable number among the best in order to maintain our high standards.

In the First Quarter of Year 2004, the student enrolment was recorded at around 4000. Currently PUC employs more than two hundred faculty members, administrators and staff, including full and part-time instructors.

PUC is working in academic and technical cooperation with several American and Asia-Pacific universities including the following:

USA University of Delaware, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, California State University System represented by Cal State Fullerton and Dominguez Hills;
Australia RMIT University (in the process of finalizing the protocol of agreement);
Philippines La Salle University, Technological University of Philippines (in the process of finalizing the protocol of agreement);

 

IV. PUC Governance and Leadership

PUC is governed according to its bylaws by a Board of Trustees, and is assisted by an Academic Advisory Council. The Board of Trustees shall appoint the Executive Officers as a management team, which consists of a president, vice presidents, a secretary, and a treasurer to run the University’s daily operations. Also, the Board of Trustees shall appoint two Internal Auditors.