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Background

RULE is the first higher education institution in

. It was founded in 1948 as the National Institute of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

Politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

and

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

. In 1957 the institute became the faculty by Royal Decree. In 2003 the Faculty of Law and Economics was reorganized as a university, under the name of Royal University of Law and Economics. Other disciplines of social and natural sciences, such as language and computer sciences have been added to the curriculum. The university has four faculties, two graduate schools and one center, teaching law, economics and business.

Staff and students

In 2003, there were 4,800 undergraduate students studying in the four faculties, among them were 1,478 female students. Newly established graduate schools accommodate 507 graduate students. There are 84 full-time and 112 visiting Cambodian lecturers and 70 foreign lecturers who give lectures under the academic exchange programmes.

Academic programmes

The educational term/grade level system has been divided into semesters, with eight semesters in the period of four years for bachelor's degree programme.

Undergraduate degree programmes

Faculty of Law

* Law (in Khmer) * Law (in

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

) * Law (in Trilingual: Khmer, English and French) * Law in

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

* Law in

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

and Khmer

Faculty of Public Administration

*Bachelor's in

Public Administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit est ...

*Bachelor's in International Relations (English Program)

Faculty of Economics and Management

* Bachelor in

* Bachelor of Business Administration * Bachelor in Accounting * Bachelor in Finance and Banking

Faculty of Information Economics

* Bachelor in

Information Economics Information economics or the economics of information is the branch of microeconomics that studies how information and information systems affect an economy and economic decisions. One application considers information embodied in certain types ...

Graduate degree programmes

Graduate School of Law

* Master of

(MPA) * Master in Private Law (MPL) * Master in International Business Law and Corporate Counsel (MIB)

Graduate School of Economics and Management

* Master of Business Administration (MBA) * Master of Business Administration in Finance (MBA-Finance) * Master of Business Administration in Marketing (MBA-Marketing) * Master in

Tourism Management Hospitality Management and Tourism is the study of the hospitality industry. A degree in the subject may be awarded either by a university college dedicated to the studies of hospitality management or a business school with a relevant departme ...

Notable alumni

Veasna Chea Leth Veasna Chea Leth (born 1944) is a lawyer from Cambodia, who was the first female law student at the Royal University of Law and Economics. During her studies in the 1990s she lived in an underground space under the university due to the lack of f ...

- activist and the first woman from Cambodia to graduate with a law degree. * Heng Vong Bunchhat - former dean of the faculty until 1975

References

{{authority control Universities in Cambodia Educational institutions established in 1948 1948 establishments in Cambodia ASEAN University Network