American University

One of the objectives of the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is basically a campus of the University of New York, is to encourage women in a country that one had the most female PhD's per capita in the whole of Europe to branch out into careers typically reserved for men in Bosnian culture.

There are similar programs in many nations, including several others with predominantly Muslim students. Many of the problems associated with these education facilities ('They're making our women too Western', 'They're trying to corrupt our values') are not a problem in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for obvious reasons, and so the response from the public has generally been positive.

The American University is accredited in North America which is something of a sore spot for other Bosnian universities. The University of Sarajevo, for example, is undeniably a more prestigious institution but has seen declining enrolement simply because people would rather be an electrical engineer in the United States than a Linguistics Historian in Bosnia and Herzegovina.