American InterContinental University

AIU is territorially approved by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association to regard assistant, bachelor's, and expert's degrees.American InterContinental University (AIU) was developed in 1970 in Lucerne, Switzerland and was first known as the American Fashion College of Switzerland. The school was seen as an American degree giving relationship in 1971, at first offering associate and four year accreditations. 

By 1978, the school had around 300 understudies, and started to build up its course offering past style to ranges, for example, business. The school opened two or three different grounds in taking after years. Steve Bostic got the school in 1996 and changed its name to American InterContinental University. In 2001, AIU was grabbed by its present proprietor, Career Education Corporation, which is a traded on an open business part regulator of wage driven schools.The relationship at first got accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 1987. SACS set the school on post trial supervision in December 2005 and restored AIU's probation in 2006 for weakness to agree to different Principles of Accreditation. On December 11, 2007, CEC reported that SACS had cleared AIU's probation and that the school's accreditation was toward the day's end on extraordinary terms. In 2009, AIU feasibly endeavored to change accreditation from SACS to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). School powers felt this was best coming about to the greater bit of its understudies are served through its Internet-based grounds which is masterminded in the HLC geographic territory. SACS and HLC are among the six local endorsing affiliations saw by the U.S. Office of Education.The U.S. Branch of Education, Office of Inspector General researched the Higher Learning Commission's choice to support accreditation of AIU in context of the examination of the commission's gages for measuring credit hours and undertaking length. A partner assessor general imparted in the report, "This development by HLC is not to the best purpose of enthusiasm of understudies, and brings up issue about whether the favoring choices made by HLC ought to be depended on by the Department of Education while helping understudies to increase quality get ready through the Title IV programs."

NCA-HLC president Sylvia Manning reacted that this certification was "feeble" in light of the way that it concentrated on a particular accreditation issue including a solitary school. SACS president Belle Wheelan agreed with NCA-HLC, calling the OIG report "alarming" and underscoring that American InterContinental University's accreditation under SACS had been in "great standing."In spite of HLC, the University's business programs earned accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs in 2011.In 2013, AIU's Master of Education (M.Ed.) program found the opportunity to be one of the standard absolutely online dares to be allowed at an early stage two-year accreditation by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC).The AIU London was approved by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education until it was eaten up by Regent's College London in April 2013. In June 2008, The Quality Assurance Agency close an overview passed on in May 2005 considering an examination of the London Campus in 2004. This report had seen that at the date of the Agency's outline in 2004, there were "pressing stresses as for the smart norms being master." Following convincing endeavors on the London grounds to cure inadequacies, the QAA saw that, "Ensuing to the overview QAA has been given data that demonstrates that proper move has been made by the American InterContinental University in light of the disclosures of this report. Subsequently the study was closed down in June 2008.