ACMT History

For a decade, ACMT has made its home in Dubrovnik, Croatia, a historic coastal city known as "The Pearl of the Adriatic." The concept started in 1995 when the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology (now the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports) wished to establish a private institution of higher education in Croatia and contacted Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in New York. RIT was considered because of its philosophy of applied, practical education and its reputation for formulating and sustaining successful international partnerships.

After visiting RIT in 1995, an agreement to create the college was signed in the spring of 1997, establishing ACMT as the first private institution of higher education established in Croatia, and, more importantly, as a model for foreign universities operating in Croatia.

This partnership enabled ACMT to offer its students dually accredited diplomas. Today, we remain the only private educational institution granting both American degrees accredited by the New York Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and Croatian degrees which are fully accredited and aligned with the Bologna process.