AUB — University Digital Services Platform
A comprehensive web-based digital platform for one of the Middle East's most prestigious universities. The system unifies student, faculty, and admin portals under one scalable ecosystem serving thousands of users across AUB's faculties and the AUBMC medical center.
Project Overview
The American University of Beirut (AUB), founded in 1866, is one of the oldest and most respected universities in the Arab world — hosting thousands of students across multiple faculties including medicine, engineering, arts and sciences, business, and public health. This project delivered a modern unified digital services platform built to handle AUB's scale and complexity.
The platform spans four core portals — student, faculty, administrative, and medical — all integrated through a shared backend API and consistent design system, delivering a seamless digital experience for every member of the AUB community.
About AUB
Platform Portals
Key Features
Outcomes
Technical Challenges
AUB serves thousands of students, hundreds of faculty, and dozens of admin staff — all with different roles and permissions. Building a robust RBAC system isolating student data, faculty management, and admin operations while keeping authentication seamless required careful architecture design.
All four portals needed to share a single source of truth for user accounts and academic records — while exposing only role-relevant data. Designing a shared REST API serving four fundamentally different interfaces without duplicating business logic was one of the core technical challenges.
University systems experience extreme traffic spikes during course registration, grade release, and admissions deadlines — when thousands of users hit the platform simultaneously. Ensuring availability during peaks required careful caching, query optimization, and load-balanced deployment.