The International Cell was established in AIU in the year 2000. Keeping in view the Globalization, Internationalization of Higher Education necessitating increasing international academic collaboration in the areas of common interest particularly exchange of students/faculty/research and technical staff, joint research projects, sharing of information, joint capacity building programme, credit transfer, dual/joint degree programmes, recognition of courses and programmes, equivalence of degree etc. between the universities of India with Association of Universities of other countries and coordinates the activities related to the Division. The division also keeps records of MoUs/Collaboration with National/International Organisation and representation of AIU in various International forums. The division collects and collates the data of International Students in India and brings out the publication after analysis. After collecting the data on International Students for the year 2014-15, it brought out an occasional paper on “Internationalisation of Higher Education in India – Annual Survey of International Students in India 2014-15”.