International Transcripts

Students at AIU are required to have on file all official transcripts for any institutions of higher education previously attended. For international transcripts, students are required to submit copies or unofficial versions of their academic records. These documents do not need to be official, but they must be authentic and legible. International institutions must be licensed or officially recognized by the Education Department or Ministry of the country where the institution operates to be eligible for transfer of credit or degree status. Students with international educational credentials must submit authentic international academic documents from all upper-secondary and post-secondary educational institutions to AIU or an approved credential evaluation service.

Evidence of valid international educational credentials can be from a University-approved international credential evaluation agency. Additionally, credentials may be accepted in pre-approved circumstances with a written evaluation from a properly trained credential evaluator employed by the University. This is required for all transcripts, including transcripts from international secondary schools if provided and/or institutions of higher education, which may require a credential evaluation.

While the University Registrar's Office makes every attempt to review the eligibility of international transcripts in-house, it is the student's responsibility to ensure that AIU has received all documents needed to make this assessment up to and including a transcript evaluation. Because of the time it can take for an evaluation to be completed by one of the approved institutions, AIU recommends students to begin the evaluation process at the time of enrollment. The University Registrar Department will ultimately verify and/or certify the institution's eligibility for transfer credit or degree equivalency. In the event that the international institution's transcript was not translated by the institution into English, the student must provide a copy of an English translation prepared by a recognized academic translation service. The translations and/or evaluations are prepared at the student's expense. The student is required to request translation for any non-English documents and is responsible for all translation costs incurred.

Several credential evaluation services are available to students. Acceptable evaluations may only come from evaluation services that are a member of NACES (National Association of Credential Evaluation Services, Inc.) or AICE (Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc.).