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Since life’s conditions are always changing and require new knowledge and skills, we often find ourselves in the role of beginner throughout our lives. The FXUA “Learning to Be” curriculum provides each student with the life-long tools to ensure competency, proficiency, expertise, and eventual mastery in those areas of life where they choose to dedicate themselves ensuring that life’s twists and turns result in opportunity and not chaos for our graduates. FXUA has taken a very different approach to higher education by focusing on a “business first” pledge. Our goal is to ensure that you are taught by educated practitioners, not academic theorists, and provided with near-limitless access to national and international business leaders throughout your entire academic journey. Long before you graduate, you will have shaped several new prosperous roads that lead to lifetime career success – guided and mentored step-by-step by the very best the business community has to offer.

Learning to Be

Since life’s conditions are always changing and require new knowledge and skills, we often find ourselves in the role of beginner throughout our lives. The FXUA “Learning to Be” curriculum provides each student with the life-long tools to ensure competency, proficiency, expertise, and eventual mastery in those areas of life where they choose to dedicate themselves ensuring that life’s twists and turns result in opportunity and not chaos for our graduates.

Business First

FXUA has taken a very different approach to higher education by focusing on a “business first” pledge. Our goal is to ensure that you are taught by educated practitioners, not academic theorists, and provided with near-limitless access to national and international business leaders throughout your entire academic journey. Long before you graduate, you will have shaped several new prosperous roads that lead to lifetime career success – guided and mentored step-by-step by the very best the business community has to offer.

Curriculum

The FXUA curriculum is the heartbeat of this university. Developed by business experts and crafted to produce industry-leading micro-credentials, FXUA is uniquely positioned to provide an affordable and business-focused education that ensures every student has the necessary tools to reap a productive professional career. For many, an FXUA education can be your catalyst for achieving your vision of industry and, quite possibly, global transformation!

FXUA Micro-Credentials

Traditional higher education degrees tell employers what you have done. Micro-credentials tell employers what you can do – specifically, what you can do to make them more successful. At FXUA we applaud the completion of an academic journey but, moreover, enthusiastically celebrate those specific and measurable competencies that you can visibly bring into the workforce. This is the unique difference that FXUA can bring to you.

Prime Location

FXUA is situated in the epicenter of global trade and political influence. Businesses, both large and small, call the Washington, DC metropolitan area home – providing our students with access to diverse industries, influential global players, and immediate employment opportunities. FXUA has immersed itself in this marketplace to ensure you, the student, learn and profit from the very best the world has to offer.

Student experience activities for FXUA students

  • Career Development and Design Events
    • Building a Resume
    • Networking and Professionalism
    • US & Global Business Culture
    • Alumni Panel
  • Financial Acumen Workshop Series
  • Project-Based Leadership & Innovation Workshop Series
  • Student Success
    • Organizational Skills (+ Alumni Panel)
    • English Language Resources
    • Study and Note-Taking Skills
    • Tips for Finals Success (+ Alumni Panel)
    • Don’t Cram for Exams
    • Stress Management
  • Recreation Events
    • Sports Game
    • National Mall Guided Tour
    • International Week: Street Fair
    • End of Semester/Graduation Event
  • International Student Focused Events
    • Welcome to the USA
    • The Best of the DMV
    • Getting Involved around Campus and the DMV
    • Global Mentor Meet and Greet
    • Apple Picking
    • Trick or Treat Across Campus
    • Halloween Movie Night
    • Thanksgiving Homestay Program
    • Conversation Partners

    At FXUA, we believe in equal access, innovation, and a future-ready approach to a college education. Our admission process is designed to achieve a class of 2025 who are smart, sensitive, practical, and believers not just dreamers.

    The application process is very simple to follow:

    • Step 1: Complete the FXUA application form
    • Step 2: Upload transcripts and college essays.
    • Step 3: Connect with our wonderful admissions team for an admissions interview. We will talk about everything but your grades. You know why? Because you uploaded your transcripts in step 2.
    • Step 4: Receive an admission decision.
    • Step 5: Make your decision and pay a deposit to secure your place.

    We are there to support you at every stage. Please email or call our admissions team to ask any questions about your application process. If you are not sure what to write for your college essay we will help you brainstorm ideas. If you are unsure of your academic goals we can chat about future careers to help you decide.


    To be considered for admission to FXUA, you must be comfortable with rapid and idiomatic spoken English. There are several different ways to demonstrate that you are proficient in English if your first language is not English or you have not studied in an English medium educational system:

    • TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Please visit www.toefl.org for more information on this examination. A minimum score of 90 (Internet-based test) is necessary for admission to FXUA. Your score must be reported directly to FXUA by the testing service.
    • IELTS (International English Language Testing System). Please visit www.ielts.org for more information on this examination. A minimum score of 6.5 is necessary for admission to FXUA. Your score must be reported directly to FXUA.

    Letters of recommendations, portfolios, or any other supporting documents that you wish to submit please do so. These are not required but we will welcome additional information about your profile if you choose to share it with us.

    English Language Requirements

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