International University Vienna

The International University
TypePrivate
Active1981–2011
CampusVienna, Austria
Websitewww.iuvienna.ac

The International University (IU), Vienna was a private university located in Vienna, Austria, with subsidiaries in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was unaccredited during most of its existence. According to IU, it was chartered in 1980 by the U.S. state of Alabama as a private degree-granting postsecondary institution.[1] The Vienna operation was founded in 1981 as "European Christian College". Beginning in 2001, IU was nationally accredited until 2003, when IU's university accreditation was withdrawn by the Austrian Accreditation Council.[2] In 2011, IUV's sponsoring association went into bankruptcy and was shut down by court order.

In June 2011, Serbian private university Megatrend University announced that it would take over the institution's operation.[3] This successor institution also went bankrupt and closed its doors in 2013.

  1. ^ History Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, The International University website
  2. ^ International University: Akkreditierung aberkannt, ORF.at Archived 2005-12-19 at the Wayback Machine (German)
  3. ^ "Megatrend Univerzitet". Megatrend.edu.rs. Archived from the original on 2012-06-13. Retrieved 2012-05-17.