The university graduated 1,281 Afghan degree students over the past decade, at a cost of $126,000 each to American taxpayers, or a total of $162 million.
Missing Millions Put an American-Funded Afghan College Under Scrutiny nyti.ms/2I8WEXx
Now, U.S. govt investigators say they cannot account for $63 million (more than a third) of those funds.
Apparently, it would have been cheaper to send every graduate to study in U.S than it cost to educate them at the American University of #Afghanistan A.U.A.F
#SIGAR head said agency faced resistance in conducting the audit. “In seven years of investigating government contractors and grant recipients in #Afghanistan, this is one of the worst-run programs I have ever seen,” Mr. Sopko said.
The University was one of U.S.'s most high profile development projects undertaken in #Afghanistan.
Looks like it has imparted some very important lessons in American-style education as well as American-style squandering of funds & opportunities.
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