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 holds a Royal Charter of Incorporation from the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom in Uganda which empowers it as a university and provides it with the authority to award degrees.
European-American University has partnered with the Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience in Geneva, Switzerland, for the joint award of degrees. As a result, each graduate receives two degree awards; a degree from European-American University in Bunyoro-Kitara, and a private Swiss degree from the Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience in Geneva, Switzerland. The private Swiss degree is always awarded under the terms of the French VAE law. The degree awarded by European-American University can be awarded by any academic methodology.
European-American University in Bunyoro-Kitara (Uganda)
European-American University is 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 does it conduct any operations within Ugandan territory, nor is it required to be 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 provide higher education and to confer academic and honorary degrees, and defines the University as a non-profit entity.
>>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
The Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience, Geneva, Switzerland
The Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience (Association of higher education by VAE) is a non-profit association de droit privé formed under Article 60 & foll. of the Code civil suisse. It has its seat in the Canton of Geneva and is classified as a private institution of higher education operating online in an international context and delivering private degrees and certificates to adults who successfully complete the VAE process.
The legal framework under which the Association operates permits the award of private degrees. The Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research of the Swiss Confederation issued an office circular in December 2017 entitled “Validity of degrees issued by private higher education institutions in Switzerland”. This document includes the following statements, “While higher education in Switzerland is primarily dispensed by public institutions, there are also many private ones. Some of these…private institutions were created mainly for the purpose of servicing international students and are not part of Switzerland’s public higher education sector…As a general rule, in Switzerland no prior authorisation is required in order to offer higher education courses, organise examinations or issue private degrees…Private institutions that are not part of Switzerland’s public higher education sector, are not compatible with it, or are not entirely supervised by public authorities offer a different, but not necessarily lower, level of quality. There are several prestigious private institutions that are entirely independent from Switzerland’s public higher education sector. Not all private institutions are prestigious, however. Apart from particularly regulated cases, Swiss tradition has been to allow clients or the labour market itself to decide whether a private institution offers education quality rather than to leave this decision up to the State.”
The government of the Canton of Geneva has provided the following additional information on these matters: “An authorization to operate private schools in the field of higher education, such as business schools, is no longer required in Geneva. In general, private establishments as well as the diplomas that they award are not recognized by the Swiss Confederation nor by the Canton of Geneva.” Therefore the degrees issued by the Association are legally valid private Swiss degrees that stand entirely on their own merits.
Swiss law mandates that certain titles are protected and cannot be used by private institutions. The title of “university” cannot be used by a private Swiss association. However, in the delivery of online education outside Swiss territory, many private Swiss institutions such as business schools form partnerships with non-Swiss foreign universities for the award of joint degrees. This is the context of the partnership between European-American University, a foreign, non-Swiss university, and the Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience, a Swiss private institution of higher education. In such a partnership, the Swiss private entity retains its separate legal status and uses only the legally permitted name under which it has been established in Switzerland throughout the process.
The address of the Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience in Switzerland is as follows:
Association d’enseignement supérieur par validation des acquis de l’expérience
c/o ExpertFid & Audit SA
Cours des Bastions 13
1205 Genève
Suisse
Past status of European-American University
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.
The University was registered as a private institution of higher education in France between 2023 and 2026. Between 2023 and 2025 the University used the name Ecole Supérieure Euro-Américaine for its branch and activities in France. In August 2026 France announced changes to the law in respect of private institutions of higher education, effectively removing their right to confer degrees, and the University consequently ceased its operations in France.
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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