American InterContinental University [AIU]
Reviews and Complaints

I never attended one online class with this school. The contents of their letter is a total fabrication of what happened. I only went onto American InterContinental University site for the virtual tour. In doing so I was maneuvered. I had no plans in enrolling in classes by the simple fact I had just been laid off, I had no money to invest into school at that time. Plus, I was attending Olive Harvey College, which I was eligible for financial aid with them. Where is AIU's proof I entered into their virtual class rooms? An assignment completed by me... How did I pay the $35.00? What form of payment did I use? Check, money order, (Visa, MasterCard)? They seemed to have so called proof of everything else that benefits them, not returning my money. I repeat, I didn't attend any classes. And, look at the time span July 11th-July 19th. Clearly, I had no intentions of attending classes with this school. And, no I didn't understand I was being forced into contract for classes. I wasn't even able to talk to a live person, after realizing I was being railroaded, I tried online and by phone. Lastly, I have had jobs between July of 2004 and now which I received refunds, why was this amount taken at this time, if I truly owed it from 2004, it is now 2013 nine years later? I question that by itself, and I am almost sure they have done this to others, just taking our money. In my eyes they have not proven I took any of their classes. Looks like they have attempted to charge me for looking! The Department of Education redirected my refund to AIU when in fact I didn't owe them.

I would like EVERYONE who has or had issues with AIU to send in a complaint to your State's Attorney General & the Dept. of Education - Inspector General ASAP! I told AIU I didn't want to take a class & finish my degree with them, and AIU took out a loan on my half. AIU told me it doesn't matter if I take a single class or not that I would still be charged the loan they took out without my approval. So, PLEASE send a complaint to the Dept. of Education - Inspector General & State's Attorney General ASAP! Thank you!

Be aware of American Intercontinental University. I am an ex eployee and you do not want to know how they treat people at AIU. The accept everyone and sales people have to enroll 7-9 students every mth to keep their job. Some of these students don't even know how to write a basic sentence, not to mention writing an essay. It is pretty sad that people going to this school can get Financial Aid. The school needs to be shut down asap.

I started schooling there and do not plan to finish due to the lack of learning what I actually wanted to learn. I told them I wanted to stop my course and they keep calling me and my mom from different numbers to talk to a "student advisor" and I have told them to stop calling me but they still continue. I just had twin daughters and I will start back with schooling SOMEWHERE ELSE after I have the time and money to. I have blocked and reported several numbers that they keep calling me from but just will not stop.

I blocked the number that they kept calling me from. I check my block call log and I see 30+ calls as if they robo dial. I'm going to turn them in to the Federal do not call registry.

They are SCAMMERS. They will keep calling you everyday from different numbers even though you asked to be on the do not call list. I withdraws in 2020 and they still keep calling me in 2022. DO NOT APPLY TO THIS SCAMMMMM

They have been calling me about 7 times today while I was at school. I finally answered when I got home and they started asking me about military benefits. I am not interested and don’t know how they got ahold of my number.

I'm on the same boat. In 2005 I answered one of the online consumer questionnaires, and I said "I would like to go to college in the next 5 yrs" then someone kept calling my home but I am a stay at home mom with cronic health problems. Didn't think I could get a loan, I was being easily influenced to "sign up" by the sales guy for AIU.
I was collecting public assistance and had never recieved a loan. graduated in 1993 and had no college career but they gave me a loan miraculuously, when they shouldn't have. Fannie Mae did. I didn't work since 2001 Kmart cafe, I had no income. But needless to say they sent the same books every month and my computer was so slow, for the class. I got an A in labs by doing nothing and the bill got up to $5000+. When all I did was read the same books about Martha Stewart and Enron for two to three months and signed in to get homework assignment but couldn't do them because I wasn't learning from anyone, just reading. never seen a teacher nor did a lab?
How does this equal $5000 from me? Maybe I should have told someone sooner, but they could care less like me about this class after 2 weeks, now I can't get the money back from them to give back to Fannie Mae. I didn't recieve any checks from anyone but because I electronically signed the applications I owe them? I can't afford to pay them and feel rebellious because they did nothing but let the bill accumulate. Beware of the salepreson that doesn't know what he's doing to peoples life.

I am NOT defending AIU, however, please realize that most community colleges also accept anyone who is able to pay for classes. Many times these schools only require a prospective student to take placement tests. AIU does require a prospective undergraduate student to prove that person has a US High School diploma or equivalent. With regard to transfer credit, it is always up to the school to which one is transferring as to whether previous course work is accepted. No school ever guarantees course work will transfer. AIU is accredited and always has been. Yes AIU was on probation for 2 years. AIU has recently switched accrediting bodies moving from SACS to NCA. A word to the wise, always check out any school thoroughly before enrolling there.

a neutral observer

I am four classes away from graduating from AIU. I am not sure how the credit transfer process will work, but I do know that AIU standards suck. They let anyone into their school. I am not proud to say that I am graduating from AIU. There are so many uneducated people getting degrees just because they pay tuition. Getting your degree should be based on the knowledge aquired while attending the school. It makes me sick!

I don't know where you get this information. AIU is an accredited school they are not at risk of losing it either. get your facts right. Only reason your credits wont transfer is that's the new school course don't match to the course offer at aiu.

I suspect favoritism too. It depends looks like you have an ethnic last name like me so good luck to you in your academic endeavors. They included me in a virtual graduation and took it back. This school is bonkers.

Here are some screenshots. Also if you will notice at the bottom of ledgers something is also askew, because the information doesn't even make sense. Mind you this all occured between the middle of December, and the 13th of January. I wasn't informed that I had any due balance, but then all of a sudden I'm almost a year past due, and getting locked out. I've attempted to address with student accounts to which I haven't recieved a response, I also sent them the pictures. I'm sure they were shocked

I've already invested $60,000 and have 4 classes left and they are doing something similar, my ledger has changed several times since december, and now all of a sudden I have a $10,000 dollar debt with the school, and they have blocked me from my clsses that start tuesday until paid in full. Which I was unaware of any of this until the 13th of january. And they've pocketed my most recent disbursement. Luckily when I noticed the fishy stuff in December I started getting regular screen shots of my accounts & dashboard to prove myself if the time came. They attempted to say they were going to send me an associates degree, like I was just gonna settle on out of school or something, and I refused them. So here we are a month later, and they pulling something.

I write this comment in hopes that someone can direct me to a means of resolution. I attended AIU Online for approximately 1.5 semesters and prior to doing so I spoke with 8 different advisers and 4 different finance officers at AIU. I asked 100's of questions and a great deal of time over the course of 6 months in attempt to find out if AIU would accept a letter of tuition exemption from the Texas Commission for the blind (TCB). As an individual with a vision impairment (i.e. totally or legally blind), in the state of Texas you are exempt from college tuition, lab fees, and such. In any case I finally spoke to an individual who stated they were a director over finance and that they would honor such a letter since they have a campus in Houston, Texas. That said, after the first semester and half-way into the second I received a bill in the mail of over $9000. "Are you kidding me?", I thought to myself. I picked up the phone and called the finance department and was told that TCB would not pay for the classes. Come on I'm legally blind not stupid, I told them from the start it's an exemption not a voucher someone would pay back. Long story short, I'm $7000 in the hole to AIU, once they credited back the second half of the second semester after I refused to pay for the classes I had taken and had been told I would be exempt from paying for. It's been 12 years since then, fall of 2005, and I'm still dealing with this. I would love to go back to school (NOT AUI!), but since I can't get my official transcript I can't go anywhere else.

Any advise, suggestions, or support would be appreciated. I will not pay them back because that would be a surrender of my moral values and proof that they can get away with anything to include taking advantage of someone who is technically disabled but refuses to give up the fight and settle for government assistance. I have worked all my life and I will not stop, a degree however would be nice so that I can progress in my career.

AIU is horrible, they commit fraud! husband used both TA and a pell grant. 100% paid for 2 classes, was told that if he was out on the range/field that it would not count against him well it took less than a two months to find out that this was a lie, husband out in the field no internet no nothing, preparing for deployment to Iraq, Well they gave him a F. Husband called and complained on how they lied about backing up the military if out on the range or deployed! So husband told them he was withdrawing, sent in a letter and also let the instructors know along with his adviser, We had to pay back the TA which was fine since he did not finish, All was fine and dandy till today when we were told that we needed the transcript from AIU, we were told that they will not release it and we had a outstanding balance that husband went for 7 months! Well I told them this had to be a error on their part because I still have the TA receipt and the pell grant part. That 2 classes and less then 3 months was covered and the grade should of been a W well not in this case. TA shows less than 3 months of classes and 100% paid will zero balance due, But the kicker I called the federal government after finding out that they charged a whole yr to the federal government claiming husband attended *fraud* Way to go it'll be hard to con their way out of this since they are claiming he was in the usa on the internet while husband was in IRAQ.. of course we have JAG on our side. I think we are the lucky ones since husband does have JAG and TA proof of a zero balance and a counseling form since husband dropped out.. I will give advise to anyone who has been defrauded by AIU make a paper trail contact via registered mail asking for dates and a invoice. Also if your military go to JAG! if they charged the pell grant for time you didn't attend her if the number to report it to. Office of the Inspector General [protected]

They charging me for completeing 10 classes between May 2005 and Dec 2005. This is not accurate because I withdrew due to the birth of my second child and being the sole provider for my family. No possible way I could have completed 10 classes online and work 12 hour shifts and help with my 2 yr old daughter and a 1 month old. Now I have to drop classes because they refuse to send a piece of paper saying I attended but did not receive any credits, according to them I owe them 4800. This is not possible because I had pell grant, student loan, and paying out of pocket at the same time. I only received books for three classes and dropped after doing those classes. I even talked to my advisor about having to drop and was told as long as I dropped before the next round of classes I was good. So you trying to tell me that they want a total of $10, 000 for 8 months of nothing?

I have read a lot of the complaints and I agree with some of them, One of my complaints against AIU is Financial Aid, and the idoits who can't tell you much about what is going on with your account and why is it taking for every for them to post your loans along with your stipend. It should be a number that we can get as students, so we can call and make a written complaint against the school. They tell you that your loans will be posted on a certain day, and when you check your account, nothing has been posted and you have to wait weeks after or call and complain to get any kind of results. Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that I can get my degree in such a short time and the instructors aren't so bad. But I do feel that AIU financial aid department is scamming the students. A lot of the students who are unemployeed look for there stipend check to help out in there households, and for AIU to fall flat on their faces when it comes to taking care of their students is mind blowing to me. At this point, I would not recommend any of my friends or family to attend this school. If your looking for a school to attend and your unemployeed and need the loans to help you out financially along the way, this is not the school for you, try somewhere else. But, if you have a job and your willing to put in the hard work and dedication to strive for the degree you are seeking out, and the loans aren't a factor, then AIU may be the college for you.

AIU Truth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wel2J-RviWQ

Send this video via facebook to as many students and past students as possible. It's time the truth comes out.

Going to college is not an easy task. It takes dedication, committment and stedfast determination. I attended AIU for my AA, BA, and MBA without any break. It was not easy, as a matter of fact, I was put on academic probation in my MBA program because I was burnt out and did not take it as seriously as I should have. You have to maintain at least a B average. I went through that challenge, but overcame the challenge. It feels good to have all my degrees. You cannot give up. No where is perfect, and sometimes the school just might not be a good fit for you. Go somewhere else. I loved AIU, the online platform worked for me. I hated the group assignments, but understood the importance of them and made it work for me. It improves your leadership skills, but if you do not have them, let someone elsebe the leader! Just like someone mentioned, it is a regionally accredited school in good standing. Were there instructors I did not like? I can name about two, and that is good for what I have accomplished. The professors for the most part were great. Some had been Deans of other schools, industry professionals with awesome degrees. Hang in there and adjust your attitudes! You can do it.

They call all the time, 4-5 time a day. They won’t even leave a text to unsubscribe or stop. It’s so terrible. I was looking into online education and when I went on one of the calls online, one of these Virtual Assistants, tried to force me into signing up for other “online universities”

American InterContinental University keeps changing my dates changing my emails and changes what they say to me and then I'm always getting an email saying that they'll get back in touch with me but they never do and they keep holding my refund and I want my money

[protected] has called my phone number 17 times in November. One time even spoke to my child provocatively. These people are sick and should be prosecuted. Go sell your online sex trafficking somewhere else!

I attended AIU from February of 2008 thru Nov 2013, I have two Master degree's and I earn over six figures a year. I have a Master Information Technology and an MBA both from AIU. I have a lot of debt but I have a job I love in the IT world and I can spell although my grammar is not always the best. I worked full time while earning my degree's and I am very proud of what I have accomplished. To all who think an education with AIU on-line is not as hard as attending class at a actual brick and mortar school think again. It was the hardest five years of my life and when I began at AIU I had 430 college credits already which some helped towards my degree and some did not. The problem with regular college was all the classes I thought were useless towards what I wanted to accomplish, to many electives. I wanted classes that got me where I wanted to be not in a round about manner. I am a member of Delta Mu Delta and earned that at AIU also.

I attended AIU, and received a Business Mgt. and Health Care Administration Degree. I told the admissions rep that I wanted to be a Nursing Home Administrator in the State of MN. I was very clear about my direction and expected outcome of the AIU education, even including the information in an essay for an "in house' grant.

After graduating, very proud of myself for my 3.8 overall GPA, I applied to the State of MN Board of Nursing Home Administrators to apply for licensure. That's when I found out the truth about AIU!

The state of MN Board of Health DOES NOT RECOGNIZE AIU as an accredited institution and will NOT accept their degrees for license requirements! The State of MN Board of Administrators WILL NOT allow me to enroll in the internship program for licensure based on my AIU education. The University of MN has one of the top 5 programs for Health Care Administration (Masters Program), and they will not accept my AIU Degree for acceptance into the program.

My degree from AIU is ABSOLUTLY WORTHLESS, AND COSTING ME $38, 000. I urge everyone to do thier homework before considering an education at AIU!

I couldn't really say whether or not I really know anything about AIU. I have been in attendance for nearly a year now; I have had conversations with the instructors; I have completed my work; I have a 4.0. I can recall the different faculty members having said they were involved with some such project, worked for government agency X, etc. How could I be sure of it though?

Any person aspiring to higher education should be concerned about the quality of that education. I want to know; when I make an A at AIU, is it equivalent to a C at Stanford? When I graduate, will I be treated seriously? I generally prefer to leave no doubt in the things I do; my objective is to crush the competition; individual ambition serves the common good. Does it though? When applied to all matters, the appropriateness of the decree begins to break down.

Take L for example. Why begin this thread; remember your psych guys and consider the source. What is the cause of all this AIU trolling? AIU, have you anything to say about this? DO you even know these things are being said? Have you had ample opportunity to reply. Or have we gathered here in the back alley to talk ill of our academy behind its back? Is this a back alley; I have never been here before.

I should have probably mentioned I attend online, so I wouldn't have any idea about equipment problems on campus. Still, my concern would be quite similar to anyone else's. What quality is the degree I am working for? Have you been to the Facebook site yet? Eleven people like it; do the faculty not like AIU? I checked the site for my brother's school and the number was a thousand some. Of course, this could just be because students of AIU aren't typically on Facebook. How would Facebook be an accurate accountant of AIU's credibility? Still, why would more people not have gone to the site?

There are about a thousand questions to ask, different pieces of what some may call evidence; it is assumption! A dangerous lot as well; irresponsible to dash the hopes of those with potential futures by telling them their effort is for naught without good cause. It is detrimental to the mentality of our communities; reprehensible to place the future of our nation, the average level of education of a region, the potential for economic, social, and scientific advance; to debilitate the minds of those better occupied with the dissolution of fundamental difference and unity among nations, greasing the gears of our industry...

Do you not realize the heinous nature of such accusation should they be unfounded?

I could go on for awhile, but you can put the end to this essay; I have given you enough of my thinking already. I have better things to do.

I find the critical comments regarding AIU astonishing. I am enrolled there at the moment and I am completely happy with every aspect of their dealings with me. I am a 46 year old businessman and studying for the first time in years, and my interaction with AIU has been nothing short of completely professional in every respect. I find it interesting that the original complainant stated they were at risk of losing their accreditation and yet, three years later, I am studying with them and they have thousands of students. Perhaps there is a personal aspect to this original post rather than just reporting facts, but I can assure readers that AIU is doing very well, is fully accredited, and has excellent courses and instructors. Perhaps those unhappy with the College may best look inward to see where the issues truly lie.

I am appalled at the horrible grammar and spelling in these messages. If this is the quality of our up and coming graduates, look out world! Some of you claim 20 years of management experience and others of you claim prior degrees. Do you people not realize how critical good communication is? Stop using spell-check! Look it up for crying out loud! I would hate to be on a team with some of you. You would drive me nuts with the lack of attention to detail!

P.S. Thank you for convincing me NOT to enroll in AIU!

Some of the complaints though are from way back, most or all issues have resolved they mostly came from admissions advisors and they are no longer employed.. I did have one of thiose in 2005 however I withdrew do to new baby and just reenrolled and it has been a total change compared 2005

I would disagree, because this school has made much improvement over the years. each of their classes are just as tough as any other traditional colleges. Professors are highly professional that when one disagrees with a point of view debate is encouraged without fear of being graded on their beliefs and not the quality. The same can not be said for a traditional college where professors will actually fail a student for having a different political view.

What about the people who were unable to attend a traditional college, Onlines schools such as AIU and many others are way to achieve that. I beilieve companies that discriminate against online schools are just upset that it wasn't around when they attened college.

For the students who feel they got ripped off they were most like the type to utilized sites like justanswer.com to do there work for them. That is one them not the school. However that doesn't the same issues don't exists in traditional universities they do they just don't get posted all over the place when they fail because of there own lack of effort.

I attend this college and I work hard for my GPA and it doesn't come easy, most of which is because I already have 20 plus years experience in Management and I am able to use that same experience in the classroom. The only reason why I am in school is because now a days they need that peice of paper. I can tell you this much I can do circle around those Managers just out of school.. myview.blogtoolkit.com

Arthur L. Taylor - After attending AIU online for several years, I was give a graduation date 4 times maintained the Dean's List 5 times and each time the Graduation date got close the School then changed the date or added another course. With financial Aid I still got charged almost 12, 000.00 for unpaid financial aid owe to the school. Then the amount went down to $7, 000.00 even after I rec'd FA assistance. I was then denied re-entry to complete the new added courses because of unpaid financial aid the school claimed I owed. I had completed all the school requirement and the still claimed I had to take more classes at my expense because I could not get any federal Financial Aid. I was granted re-entry one last time and after starting the program to take other unnecessary classes I was discharged after two month in school again for financial aid reason. I have yet to get my official transcripts or to graduate from this school. AIU is a total ripoff and should be fined for fraud and all administrators jail for stealing money for the students and from the Federal Government.

I am about to start classes December. The FAD keeps asking me for my husband information even when we where not married in 2015. I am not understanding what's going on. They claim that the government needs more info. now I know that this school is a bunch of B/S . Thanks guys

THEY CALL MY HOME PHONE 5 TO 6 TIMES A DAY...

it is now 2013 and I am now getting letters from sally mae that I owe 4500 dollars for a loan I never signed for! This was my first experience with a college, just out of the navy no less! I seriously need help with this, just got a copy of all transactions done with the college. I have no idea how to prove my issue and or what to do about it!

The Bachelors in Information Technology degree that I earned from AIU helped me get a better high paying job ($39/hr). I now hold a managerial position at a University. Thanks for the great learning experience AIU. From Software project management to Linux and Windows Server Administration, I learned it all from your school.

I have not been ripped off by AIU because I am cautious. I actually completed a questionaire for Caplan University but apparently these guys share all information with each other (for profit of course) and they have sold my information to countless others. In the last week since asking for information, I have been called around 50 times by various organizations I've never even heard of, all trying to sell me a degree. AIU attempted to enroll me and act as if they were doing me a favor and posing the question of "if you are accepted" Very high pressure tactics that are utterly transparent. I informed them that I was the customer and that if I wrote them a check there was no question as to my acceptance. AIU seriously tried to push me towards federal assistance and wanted all sorts of information that served no purpose for education other than for them to sell the information or use it to apply for federal assistance. These guys are the true internet predators and after a few interactions with them, I told them I wanted nothing further to do with them or their programs. I continue to receive calls from many non-native speakers now and am very ticked off that all my information was sold all over the internet. These people are ### of the first order and I would advise anyone to stay away from them. Your local schools offer online classes for less money than you will wind up paying these jerks and you will not have to worry about the quality of education or the legitimacy of the degree you obtain. Stay away from these off-brand online schools. They are nothing more than an electronic age hustle.

oh and to those worried about me being paid of to say this, i will put my hand on a bible and swear under oath in a court of law if i had to, THESE THOUGHTS I POSTED ARE OF MY VERY OWN MIND!

this post makes me sick, i know its from 09 and its 2011 now, but seriously? ive been attending aiu online since last year i had no problems at all, before the summer of this year i stopped going to class stopped posting work and i was withdrawn. i felt i needed a break anyway, i kept failing my algebra class (so for the people that said the classes are joke, fly away, i failed algebra 4 times) so in august i contacted the school and and got enrolled again, wrote a new lettter and everything, i was accepted and now have been attending school again since 10/3/2011 of course im taking algebra, but this time, they changed the class around, made it easy to understand and even changed the book the students use, so guess what after 4 attempts at failing the algebra class im passing with an A- and this is my last week for that class. one person has a bad experience and all of sudden the school is junk and isn't worth the time? first of all, all the loans i have i had to approve and sign e documents for, nothing was taking out under my name by the school with out me knowing. second of all, my mother is on government assistance since 07 when she lost her job, she went to two local colleges to get her degree in computers and than her certification in medical billing in coding, guess what? she still hasnt found a job, she remains on government assistance, when she went to unemployment to get advice on what to do, they said she could do an online school, they gave her a list of schools they recommened, guess what school was number 2 on that list? AIU Online, so if they are such a scam & such bad news why is the government advising my mother to attend? i also got a pell grant when i first enrolled in this school? if AIU Online or AIU period was accredited the government wouldn't be handing out $5, 000 to them on my behalf. I love this school and wouldnt trade it for the world, going to school online lets me work and handle the stuff at home with no stress. i would tell any of my friends to apply to AIU Online with peace of mind, the staff i have dealt with have been great.

AIU did the same thing to me, they took loans out that I didnt apply for. The school totally ripped me off. The financial aid officer I talked to his name was nick.

i too attended AIU and received a BS in Healthcare Management, i graduated in 2005 have student loans totaling 50k and have no job to show for the effort i put into the school, i consolidated some of my loans and have had to defer them for the past 3yrs because i am unable to pay. I trusted the employees at AIU because I had a young son and wanted to get my degree in a hurry and they talked a good game. There is noway i can pay this amount of money in loans and this has held be back in everything i have tried to do. if I know then what i know now, i would have continued to go the Community College, i would not have the all the student load debt that i have now going to AIU. What a rip off, there should be something that says because of fraud we should not have to pay this money, they can take the so called degree back, then i could start from scratch.