General education component is a set of courses that all undergraduate students must complete as part of graduation requirements. General education is an aspect of the curriculum that intends to provide students with critical thinking skills and a broad understanding of the approaches to knowledge such as humanities, arts, social science and natural science. Participants also acquire a common core of understanding among students (such as in Islamic studies or other cultural studies), and a level of skills appropriate to higher education in mathematics, information literacy, and the application of technology and communications (oral and written).
Each academic program in colleges in AUE requires a minimum of 30 credit hours of General Education courses.