Azerbaijan University (AU) (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Universiteti) is a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Founded in 1991 by Prof. Salahaddin Khalilov, AU became the first private university in Azerbaijan. It was officially registered by the decision of the Higher State Expert Committee on March 3, 1993, and of the Board of Ministry of Education on April 8, 1993, and was registered in the State Register № 1. It was officially registered as a non-public Azerbaijan University, including a specialized college and an English-language gymnasium. On February 24, 2009, AU was re-accredited as a higher educational institution with the order number 213 of the Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education. The university received the right to award its students diplomas for degrees and majors determined in this order and to use all privileges of public higher educational institutions, including the privilege of deferment of military service.

Azerbaijan University owns one campus in the city of Baku.

The university has 1,099 students in 19 majors. It has about 211 faculty members in six scholar chairs.

The teaching process at the university is carried out in three languages (Azerbaijan, Russian and English). The students of the BBA program learn the second foreign language beside English (German, French, Arabic, Turkish and others), according to their preferences.

• Azerbaijan University website