International Transcripts

Students at AIU are required to have on file all official transcripts for any institutions of higher education previously attended. This is required for all transcripts, including transcripts from international secondary schools and/ or institutions of higher education. International institutions must be licensed or officially recognized by the Education Department or Ministry of the country where the institution is in operation to be eligible for transfer of credit or degree status. AIU follows strict policies concerning academic integrity. 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 an official copy of an English translation prepared by a recognized academic translation service. Translation service information is available from the University Registrar's Office. 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.) NARIC (National Academic Recognition Information Centre). AIU will consider evaluations and/or recommendations directly from AACRAO (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers). AIU recommends the service of Educational Perspectives; however, the service remains the student’s choice. Students are responsible for all applicable fees.

The Admissions Department should inform students who may have pursued postsecondary educational study internationally that the applicant’s assistance may be required in requesting these documents. If  it is impossible for the institution the student previously attended to release a document, the student may be requested to send official records (such as student certified copies of transcripts or grade reports) to the University Registrar Department for verification. After the documents are authenticated, the original documents will be returned to the student.

 Following is a sample listing acceptable evaluation organizations:

1. Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. Fax: (310) 275-3528

2. American Education Research Corporation P.O.Box 996 West Covina, CA 91793-0996 Phone: (626) 339-4404 Fax: (626) 339-9081 Email:aerc@verizon.net

3. Academic Evaluation Services, Inc.5620 E.Fowler Ave., Suite E Tampa, FL 33617 Phone: (813) 374-2020 Fax: (813) 374-2023 email: info@aes-edu.org http://www.aes-edu.org

4. A2Z Evaluations, LLC 216 F Street, #29 Davis, CA 95616 Phone: 530-400-9266 email: info@A2Zeval.com http://www.A2Zeval.com

5. Center for Applied Research, Evaluations, & Education, Inc.P.O.Box 18358 Anaheim, CA 92817 Phone: (714) 237-9272 Fax: (714) 237-9279 email: eval_caree@yahoo.com http://www.iescaree.com

6. Education International, Inc.29 Denton Road Wellesley, MA 02482 Phone: (781) 235-7425 Fax: (781) 235-6831 email: edint2@verizon.com http://www.educationinternational.org

7.Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc.P.O.Box 514070 Milwaukee, WI 53203-3470 Phone: (414) 289-3400 Fax: (414) 289-3411 email: eval@ece.org http://www.ece.org

8. Educational Perspectives, nfp.P.O.Box 618056 Chicago, IL 60661-8056 Phone: (312) 421-9300 Fax: (312) 421-9353 email: info@edperspective.org http://www.edperspective.org

9.Educational Records Evaluation Service, Inc.601 University Avenue, Suite 127 Sacramento, CA 95825 Phone: (916) 921-0790 Fax: (916) 921-0793 email: edu@eres.com http://www.eres.com

10. e-ValReports 3213 W.Wheeler St., #287 Seattle, WA 98199 Phone: (206) 257-4249 Fax: (206) 687-7944 email: brad@e-valreports.com http://www.e-valreports.com

11.Evaluation Service, Inc.333 W.North Avenue, #284 Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: (847) 477-8569 Fax: (312) 587-3068 email: info@evaluationservice.net http://www.evaluationservice.net