American Intercontinental University AIU Online No credits or anything else transfers from this college Hoffman Estates, Illinois

I graduated from AIU online with my Associate degree and my Bachelors degree. AIU is accredited by the same accreditation as schools like Norte Dame, BYU. Utah State and many others. Plus they have an additional accreditation on their Business school. My degrees will transfer anywhere. I am currently going to Keller Graduate School and have had schools like Colorado State and a number of quality graduate programs try to recruit me. I have never been told AIU is a bad school and that my degree means nothing or won't transfer. This person who wrote does not know what he or she is talking about. AIU is very challenging and requires a lot of writing and research.

I am not sure of a couple of things you have posted, so pardon my ignorance while I seek to help you out. I am a current student graduating the end of May 2011. I have been attending AIU Online since Oct. 2009, not once have I been privvy to another students letter grade so on we go...

1. How is it that you have that information?



2. If you legitimately have that knowledge have you filed a grievance?



3. Not all letter grades transfer, I have verified with APSU (local University) what they accept in transfer credits and what they do not, they will not accept a transfer of a C or lower.



4. Paying for books that are included in your tuition, in my experience I have not seen this charge since it is after all included in my tuition charges.



5. While in all my classes you can in fact "turn in anything", however, I have not met a professor yet who would grant an A to an inferior work.



6. The statement that you "... could fell (sic) as many classes as I wanted" probably indicates the majority of your problem. Why you would want to fail a class is beyond me, but if you do fail them they most likely will not transfer.

What I believe the problem to be is this, you didn't have a grade point average suficient for classes to transfer. Based on your grammatical and spelling abilities displayed in your post, I feel safe in that assumption. The costs you list are inflated based upon my experience with AIU. The most I have paid for an hour is $339, which if you multiply out to the 12 hours, which you claim to have paid $6000 for, you get $4068 for 12 hours.

I don't intend to insult you, but academic institutions can decline credits based upon your ability to complete them, I have had no issues with credits transfering 6 months ago when I considered moving to Austin Peay Staute University. The change to a classroom from online is what stopped me, not the transfer.

There is one thing you can do so that not all that time and money is lost. Talk to the admissions personnel at the school you're transferring to and ask about CLEP exams.  Your Associate's degree should have included the basic courses in English, math, social studies.... and you can test out of those by taking a CLEP.  There's a nominal cost (maybe $60?) for each exam, but at least you won't have to sit through and pay for the classes again. Most schools offer them, or can direct you to a local testing center. Even better, they're accepted at just about every college everywhere. There are also free study guides available online.

I'm sorry you experienced such poor advising. A REAL advisor would have told you that the transferability of credits is always up to the receiving institution. Many schools (especially state systems) have articulation agreements that say if you attend "State Community College", then certain courses (usually all) will transfer directly into a Bachelor's degree at "State College/University."
 
Good luck!