European-American University is registered in France and also holds a Royal Charter of Incorporation from the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom in Uganda. The details of each of these authorities are given below.
For the majority of taught programmes, the activities of teaching students by distance learning, and all such courses together with their examinations and assessments, are administered under European-American University’s authority from Bunyoro-Kitara (see below). There are also VAE-only programmes by distance assessment offered through European-American University in France.
The final degree award for most programmes is then made by means of the distance assessment process of validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) by European-American University in France. The University’s Royal Charter from Bunyoro-Kitara acts as an additional authority for the degree award. European-American University in Bunyoro-Kitara is also capable of granting degrees in its own right, and can do so for any degree that is not able to be offered under the University’s French authority.
All degree programmes offered by European-American University are entirely individualized and directly tailored to the candidate, who may be located anywhere in the world where the University is permitted to enrol students.
European-American University in France
European-American University is an international private higher education institution registered with the French government. The University operates on an international basis, federating educational resources in different countries through the medium of the Internet and through distance education. It is conceived as a social enterprise established for the betterment of mankind through promoting affordable access to educational programmes that would otherwise be unavailable.
The University is registered in France as an association sans but lucratif (non-profit association) under the law of I July 1901, by the Préfecture of Police in Paris since 17 March 2022 with RNA reference W751264314, published in the government Journal Officiel with reference 1432 on 29 March 2022. The objects recorded in the registration are “to allow students worldwide an open access to national and international higher education” and the domains of activity include education and training. As a non-profit association, it enjoys automatic tax exemption. The publication in the Journal Officiel can be verified online:
>>View European-American University’s registration in the Journal Officiel
In France, the provision of higher education is free and can be undertaken by both state and private providers. Many of the latter are constituted as non-profit associations. International private providers of education in France are commonly referred to as “hors contrat” (outside contract) when they choose to offer purely international programmes rather than contracting with the French national curriculum. This is the case with European-American University, which is an international institution catering principally to students outside France and whose degrees are based primarily on the American system of education, being delivered in the English language rather than in French. The international and innovative model of education adopted by European-American University is designed to cater for a global and notably diverse audience in an increasingly interconnected world rather than to the French internal market. European-American University maintains its administrative address in Paris, but it does not maintain any campus or teaching facility in France. The sole activity of the University in France is to undertake the validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) process internationally (by distance assessment) and to grant degrees based on this process.
It follows from this that such international private providers of higher education, including European-American University, are not supervised by the French Ministry of Education and are not eligible for French state funding. Their degrees are designated legally as certificats d’enseignement supérieur privés (certificates of private higher education). They are not “degrees of the state” or grades ou titres universitaires typically awarded by French public universities, nor are they comparable to such degrees, since they follow an international academic standard rather than the French national curriculum. Consequently they stand on their own merits as legally-issued private degrees comparable to similar private degrees issued in some other European countries. Degrees issued by the University can be legalized with the Apostille (for countries which are members of the Hague Convention) or Consular Legalization (for non-Hague Convention countries).
The sections of the Code de l’Education (which is the law of the French Republic) that enable private providers of higher education to award degrees (certificats d’enseignement supérieur privés) include articles L-151-6, L-731-1 and L-731-14.
European-American University in Bunyoro-Kitara (Uganda)
European-American University is further incorporated and empowered as a University in the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara by a Royal Charter of Incorporation issued by H.M. the Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara on 6 February 2012. Bunyoro-Kitara is one of the subnational kingdoms of the Republic of Uganda. H.M. The Omukama (King) of the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara and the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom itself were restored by the Amendment [No. 8] Act – Statute No. 8, Article 118 (1)- of 1993 enacted by the Parliament of Uganda. They are officially recognized and protected by the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda viz.: Chapter IV. –Article 37.-, Chapter XVI. -Article 246. (1) – (6)- of 1995 and by the Amendment [No. 2] Act -schedule V. -Article 178.8- of 2005 and by the Acts Supplement [No. 4] -Act 6. of 2011. Under Amendment (No. 2) Act 1995, His Majesty is the titular head of the regional government and assembly of Bunyoro-Kitara and opens, addresses and closes sessions of the assembly. His Majesty is assisted by his Principal Private Secretary, a Cabinet of twenty-one Ministers and a Orukurato (Parliament). His Majesty is the Royal Patron of European-American University. The Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom was incorporated by Trust Deed under the law of the Republic of Uganda on 11 June 2007.
Bunyoro-Kitara enjoys a semi-autonomous status within the Republic of Uganda in which certain legislative rights are reserved to its monarch, including the right to issue Letters Patent and Royal Charters. The legal prerogatives exercised by the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom are wholly independent of the central authorities of the Republic of Uganda. European-American University is not a domestic Ugandan university, nor is it regulated or licensed by the Ugandan Ministry of Education. Its authority is derived directly from Bunyoro-Kitara’s subnational autonomy in matters of governance.
The Royal Charter of Incorporation of European-American University authorizes the University to confer academic and honorary degrees.
>>Royal Charter of Incorporation of European-American University
>>Website with further information about the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, and an opportunity to donate to its development programmes
Past status
The University was first incorporated in the Commonwealth of Dominica under Statutory Rules and Orders No. 65 of 1996, where it was registered in 2007 and remained until the re-organization of its administration in 2019. In that year, the University’s Dominican corporation was replaced by its corporation in Panama which is discussed below. Dominica has since acted to repeal Statutory Rules and Orders No. 65 of 1996, which means that the legal form under which the University was formerly registered (International Business Corporation) now no longer exists.
The University was additionally incorporated as an international private university (European-American University, S.A.) in Panama between 2019 and 2023.
The University’s religious programs based in Florida, USA, which held freestanding authority between 2022 and 2024, were transferred to the Western Orthodox University (Hawaii, USA) in the latter year.
Between 2023 and 2025 the University used the name Ecole Supérieure Euro-Américaine for its branch and activities in France, which are now conducted using the name European-American University.
The University was awarded a Parliamentary Charter and Decree of Official Accreditation and Recognition on 29 July 2008 by the former International States Parliament for Safety and Peace, an intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. The ISPSP ceased to exist on the death of its founder in 2013.
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